Photographs - Ethnography

  • Photographs taken on Norley Station, including Aboriginal nanny "Lollypop" with white children. Channel Country, Southwest Queensland, 1917.

    # 50951

    [Photographer unknown].

    Photographs taken on Norley Station, including Aboriginal nanny “Lollypop” with white children. Channel Country, Southwest Queensland, 1917.

    Three gelatin silver print photographs, in uniform 110 x 66 mm format; two have annotations by the photographer on the verso, reading: ‘Lollypop, Baby & Mary / Norley 1917’, and ‘Maggie cleaning knives; Lollypop & children under kitchen verandah / Norley 1917’; the third is not captioned but shows a large group of Aborigines assembled …

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  • Tableau of a white settler attacking an Aboriginal man. Grafton, New South Wales, 1890s.

    # 48666

    EHLERS, Carl

    Tableau of a white settler attacking an Aboriginal man. Grafton, New South Wales, 1890s.

    Gelatin silver print, in uncommonly large 30 x 26.4 cm format, on original mount blind-stamped ‘Ehlers & Dalby, Grafton’; fine condition; in a later glazed frame. Like his better-known compatriot J. W. Lindt before him, German-born Carl Ehlers was a professional photographer who worked in the New South Wales Northern Rivers township of Grafton. He …

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  • Album of the kings &​ queens of Victoria

    # 49978

    KRUGER, Johann Friedrich Carl (Fred), (1831-1888); [PERKINS, Horace]

    Album of the kings &​ queens of Victoria

    [Melbourne : compiled and published by H. Perkins & Co., The Gift Depot, c.1880]. Duodecimo, pink papered boards with gilt-stamped lettering and ornament, cloth spine; containing folding concertina of [12] panels with lithographic illustrations after Kruger’s photographic portraits of surviving leaders of Aboriginal tribes of Victoria, originally taken at various times between around 1866 and …

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  • Aboriginal group with gulmari shields, Macintyre River (Northern New South Wales or South-East Queensland), c.1870.

    # 50593

    [Photographer unknown].

    Aboriginal group with gulmari shields, Macintyre River (Northern New South Wales or South-East Queensland), c.1870.

    Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each half of the image approximately 72 x 75 mm, on original flat mount of grey card, 83 x 173 mm; the mount has a fully contemporary inscription in ink in the right margin: ‘McIntire Blacks’; verso blank; the print and mount are in very good condition. The Macintyre River, which …

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  • [NEW CALEDONIA] Archive of original photographs taken by a German geologist, documenting mining, interactions with indigenous people, and the landscape in New Caledonia's North Province, 1930-31.

    # 50453

    "J. O. H." (photographer and compiler)

    [NEW CALEDONIA] Archive of original photographs taken by a German geologist, documenting mining, interactions with indigenous people, and the landscape in New Caledonia’s North Province, 1930-31.

    Group of 58 (fifty-eight) gelatin silver print photographs, in uniform 80 x 110 mm format, all neatly mounted on green paper backing sheets, 140 x 210 mm, each with the meticulous cataloguing of the photographer in the form of typed information in German, including in the upper margin a main heading ‘Neu-Kaledonien’ and a sub-heading, …

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  • [TAHITI] Tomb of Queen Pomare IV at 'Outu'ai'ai point, Arue.

    # 50117

    SPITZ, Charles Georges (1857-1894)

    [TAHITI] Tomb of Queen Pomare IV at ‘Outu’ai’ai point, Arue.

    [Circa 1885]. Albumen print photograph, 193 x 152 mm; verso with fully contemporary caption in pencil: Pomare’s tomb – Tahiti; a strong print with dark tones; the print has some light creasing but is otherwise in very good condition; unmounted. [TOGETHER WITH] A smaller albumen print, 110 x 165 mm, with another view of the …

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  • [COOK; TAHITI] Photograph of an eighteenth-century engraving, "Sacrifice humain qui eut lieu dans un des morais de O-Taiti"

    # 50118

    [HOARE, Sophia, photographer]; WEBBER, John (1752-1793) (artist); BERNARD, Robert (1734-1777) (engraver)

    [COOK; TAHITI] Photograph of an eighteenth-century engraving, “Sacrifice humain qui eut lieu dans un des morais de O-Taiti”

    Papeete, Tahiti : Mrs. Sophia Hoare, [between 1880 and 1889]. Albumen print photograph of a copperplate engraving, 110 x 207 mm; unmounted; verso with the wet stamp of ‘Mrs. S. Hoare, Photographer, Papeete, Tahiti’; in good condition with an expected amount of very light creasing. Sacrifice humain qui eut lieu dans un des marais de …

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  • The mechanical eye in Australia: photography, 1841-1900.

    # 49414

    DAVIES, Alan; STANBURY, Peter

    The mechanical eye in Australia: photography, 1841-1900.

    Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1985. First printing. Quarto (290 x 220 mm), publisher’s black cloth in dust jacket (light edge wear, scattered foxing to inside of jacket), stain to lower edge; illustrated endpapers, 270 pp, profusely illustrated; contents clean throughout; a good copy of the most useful reference work on Australian colonial photography yet …

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  • The photographs of Baldwin Spencer

    # 48612

    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, 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 to Borroloola and took …

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  • Large group of villagers with three European men. India, c.1880.

    # 48628

    [Photographer unknown].

    Large group of villagers with three European men. India, c.1880.

    Large form albumen print photograph, 220 x 280 mm; in good condition, with some very minor fading at edges of the print; on an early paper mount. There is no indication as to the location of the photograph. The large group comprises close to a hundred men, women and children. A picket fence on the …

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  • In the track of the native.

    # 48211

    TENNANT, D.

    In the track of the native.

    [Sydney] : T. Tennant, c. 1938. Small quarto (240 x 185 mm), pictorial wrappers (handling creases and small edge chips), staple bound, 49 pp; an extended photographic essay focusing on the indigenous cultures of northern Australia (Arnhem Land and Far North Queensland) and New Guinea; b/w illustrations throughout reproducing photographs from the author’s own collection …

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  • "Life in Queensland". Three outdoor photographs, late 1860s.

    # 47794

    [Photographer unknown].

    “Life in Queensland”. Three outdoor photographs, late 1860s.

    Three albumen print photographs, in uniform 73 x 98 mm format, mounted recto of a 19th-century album leaf, with fully contemporary caption in ink beneath the images ‘Life in Queensland’; all three albumen prints are in very good condition; the mount has a few spots of foxing. Although the photographer and precise location(s) are not …

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  • A Queensland Aboriginal man holding a throwing club and boomerang (possibly at Deebing Creek Mission, Ipswich), 1890s.

    # 47765

    [Photographer unknown]

    A Queensland Aboriginal man holding a throwing club and boomerang (possibly at Deebing Creek Mission, Ipswich), 1890s.

    Photographic glass magic lantern slide, 82 x 82 mm; a tiny ‘Ilford’ label on the mount, but without photographer’s imprint or caption label; some blue ink marks at right edge, loss to some of the black paper border, but no chips or cracks. This lantern slide was sourced together with another which was a group …

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  • Bitter fruit : Australian photographs to 1963

    # 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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  • "Queen Mary, Ballarat".

    # 46920

    KRUGER, Johann Friedrich Carl (Fred), (1831-1888)

    “Queen Mary, Ballarat”.

    [Caption from inscription on verso of mount]. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount); verso inscribed in ink (probably in the hand of the photographer) ‘Queen Mary / Ballarat’; a beautiful print with excellent clarity; the mount is clean and stable. This full-length portrait of Mary Phillips, who was commonly …

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  • Promotional photograph of Aboriginal musician Fred Little, younger brother of renowned Yorta Yorta singer-songwriter Jimmy Little.

    # 46903

    BOOMERANG ENTERTAINMENT

    Promotional photograph of Aboriginal musician Fred Little, younger brother of renowned Yorta Yorta singer-songwriter Jimmy Little.

    Granville, NSW : Boomerang Entertainment Centre, [c.1960]. Black-and-white photograph on glossy paper, 165 x 215 mm, verso with wet stamp of the Boomerang Entertainment Centre, and identifying caption in pen ‘Fred Little’; light creasing and corner wear.    

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