Photographs - Ethnography
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# 45848
GRAHAM-STEWART, Michael; McWHANNELL, Francis; DICKSON, Jonathan
Bitter fruit : Australian photographs to 1963
Melbourne : Michael Graham-Stewart, 2017. Quarto (285 x 230 mm), cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket, 280 pp, illustrated in colour throughout with hundreds of photographs documenting the collision of Indigenous Australian and European cultures; the photographs, ranging in date from the 1850s to the 1960s and taken in every region of Australia, represent some …
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# 45777
[Photographer unknown]
Small group of original photographs taken in the Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen area, German New Guinea, circa 1910.
Group of 3 (three) sepia-tone gelatin silver print photographs printed on postcard stock, in 89 x 138 mm format, versos with fully contemporary manuscript captions in German (likely to be in the hand of the photographer) identifying the locations precisely; all are in good condition. These photographs were taken with personal camera and are almost …
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# 45715
[Photographer unknown].
Group of carnival performers including moko jumbies and musicians. US Virgin Islands, c.1930.
Gelatin silver print photograph printed on postcard stock; verso with AZO box with squares in corners (in use 1926-1940), no handwritten message or photographer’s imprint; a crisp image with excellent detail, in superb condition.
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# 35336
RONJAT, Étienne Antoine Eugène, 1822-1912 (artist)
Reception of the foreign ministers by the Chinese Emperor, June 29 1873.
This Emperor, Toong Chir, died last winter of smallpox at the age of twenty. [Title from the inscription verso]. [U.S.A.? France? : s.n., probably 1875]. Albumen print photograph of a drawing by French artist Etienne Ronjat (after a Chinese painting), carte de visite format, 61 x 102 mm; verso with contemporary inscription in ink; both the print …
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# 13453
BAER, Karl Ernst von (1792-1876)
Types principaux des différentes races humaines dans les cinq parties du monde,
modelés sous la direction du Pr. Baer de St. Petersbourg. St. Petersburg : s.n., [1862]. Portfolio, 500 x 330 mm, original embossed boards with title to front, original silk ties, inner front board with early collection inscription of the Königliche Präparanden-Anstalt (Royal Preparatory Institute), Herborn; containing [12] albumen print photographs, [7] in format 225 x …
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# 44911
ATKINSON, Alfred (active FNQ 1895-1920) (attributed)
Kuku Yalanji warrior posing with a shield and spear. North Queensland rainforest region, late 1890s.
Albumen print photograph, 200 x 150 mm; laid down on its original album leaf of thin card; a very strong print with good tonal range; mount with scattered foxing. This type of ‘rainforest shield’ is called balan bigin by the Kuku Yalanji people. It is made from the soft wood of a fig tree known as magurra …
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# 45013
[Photographer unknown]
Basuto girl. Port Elizabeth, 1911.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 220 x 170 mm, on its original card mount (300 x 250 cm); photographer’s manuscript caption in lower margin ‘Basutu [sic] girl: taken at Port Elizabeth / June 1911’; print and mount are both in excellent condition. This lovely portrait study came from a small archive of photographs by an unidentified …
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# 35730
CLIFFORD, Samuel (1827-1890) (publisher); FRITH, Henry Albert (active in Australia 1858-1867) (photographer, attributed)
Studio portrait of Pangernowidedic (Bessy Clarke), William Lanne, Trugernanner (Truganini), and Wapperty. Hobart Town, 1864.
[Copy print of a photograph taken in the studio of Henry Albert Frith in 1864]. Hobart : Samuel Clifford, [circa 1867]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image 74 x 70 mm (arched-top format), on yellow card mount 84 x 175 mm; verso has printed label ‘Views in Tasmania. / S. Clifford, Photographer, Hobart Town’, with contemporary manuscript …
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# 43593
CHOPIN, Alfred (1846-1902)
Two studio portraits of Nyoongar people. Perth (or Fremantle?), Western Australia, 1871-72.
Two albumen print photographs, in uniform carte de visite format, 105 x 62 mm (mounts); versos with the lithographic imprint in violet of the photographer: ‘By Appointment to His Excellency / Alfred Chopin Artist Photographer / Perth & Fremantle / West Australia’, decorated with an Advance Australia coat of arms; one of the prints has …
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# 44372
SPENCER, Walter Baldwin, Sir (1860-1929)
The photographs of Baldwin Spencer
Edited by Philip Batty, Lindy Allen and John Morton. Melbourne : Miegunyah Press, 2005. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, slight sunning to spine, pp. xv; 223, illustrated. ‘In 1894 Spencer was appointed as biologist and photographer for the Horn Expedition, the first scientific expedition to Central Australia. In 1901, he and Frank Gillen set off from Oodnadatta …
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# 44461
SPENCER, Walter Baldwin, Sir (1860-1929)
The photographs of Baldwin Spencer (hardcover edition)
Edited by Philip Batty, Lindy Allen and John Morton. Melbourne : Miegunyah Press, 2005. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. xv; 223, illustrated. A fine copy. ‘In 1894 Spencer was appointed as biologist and photographer for the Horn Expedition, the first scientific expedition to Central Australia. In 1901, he and Frank Gillen set off from …
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# 43602
SWEET, Samuel White (1825-1886)
Senior Ngarrindjeri man in animal skin cloak, holding a fighting boomerang and parrying shield. Point McLeay Mission, Lake Alexandrina, Lower Murray, South Australia, 1878.
Albumen print photograph, 210 x 150 mm; scratched in the negative: ‘Sweet / Adelaide / 451’; mounted on its original album page; an exceptional print, in excellent condition. The Point McLeay Mission (today known as Raukkan) was established by the Rev. George Taplin in 1859 as a reserve for the Ngarrindjeri people. In 1878, shortly before …
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# 43604
SWEET, Samuel White (1825-1886)
Ngarrindjeri camp, and Ngarrindjeri men posing with weapons. Point McLeay Mission, Lake Alexandrina, Lower Murray, South Australia, 1880.
Two albumen print photographs, in identical format 160 x 210 mm; both laid down on their original board mounts with contemporary captions in German (both generic in nature); both prints, as well as the mounts, are in superb condition. The Point McLeay Mission (today known as Raukkan) was established by the Rev. George Taplin in …
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# 43115
ELITE STUDIO (JONES & LOTZ) (SAN FRANCISCO); WENDT, Frank (NEW YORK)
Two studio portraits of Australian Aborigines from North Queensland in R. A. Cunningham’s second touring company, taken in San Francisco (late 1892) and New York (early 1894).
I. San Francisco : Elite Studio, Jones & Lotz, 838 Market Street, [1892]. Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format (108 x 163 mm, mount), recto with embossed studio imprint at left margin; verso with contemporary inscription in ink: ‘Nov. 3 92 Stockton Cal. saw them throw them. Photo of Cannibals from Australia who use the …
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# 41951
BONAPARTE, Prince Roland (1858-1924)
Billy, Jenny and her son Toby: the last three survivors of R. A. Cunningham’s touring company of Aborigines from North Queensland. Paris, November 1885.
Two albumen print photographs, in identical 160 x 117 mm format (approximately cabinet card size); laid down side-by-side on their original mount of thin card, 310 x 405 mm, lower margin of the mount with a calligraphic caption in ink: Collection anthropologique du Prince Roland Bonaparte; both prints with some loss of contrast, scattered pale …
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# 41953
BONAPARTE, Prince Roland (1858-1924)
Billy, one of the last three survivors of R. A. Cunningham’s touring company of Aborigines from North Queensland. Paris, November 1885.
BONAPARTE, Prince Roland (1858-1924) Billy, one of the last three survivors of R. A. Cunningham’s touring company of Aborigines from North Queensland. Paris, November 1885. Two albumen print photographs, in identical large 220 x 170 mm format; laid down side-by-side on their original mount of thin card, 310 x 405 mm, lower margin of the …