Photographs - Ethnography

# 39764

SPITZ, Charles Georges or HOARE, Sophia (attributed)

[TAHITI; MUSIC] Airs tahitiens : Arue! Arue!

[Circa 1885]. Albumen print photograph (160 x 210 mm) of two pages of music notation (the original was most likely handwritten and then lithographically printed before it was photographed); generic title legible as Airs tahitiens at the head of the left-hand page, with the title of the individual tune Arue! Arue! (= Praise! Praise!) at the head of …

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# 38920

Photographer unknown.

Indigenous family and their dwelling, Demerara, British Guiana.

[Georgetown, British Guiana : s.n., late 1860s]. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 64 x 100 mm (mount); no photographer’s imprint; verso with fully contemporary inscription in ink: ‘Indian boys, Demerara’, and in pencil: ‘S.A.’ (i.e. South America); although it is a copy-print made at the time, the print has plenty of detail and is …

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# 37699

TAYLOR, J. (James)

Kangaroo hunting. Aboriginals of Musgrave Ranges, Central Australia, August 22nd 1889.

[Title from printed caption in lower margin]. [Published ca. 1900]. Collotype process print with hand colouring,175 x 225 mm (image), on sheet 250 x 300 mm; lower margin of sheet with imprint of ‘J. Taylor, Collotype, Adelaide, Copyright’ and printed caption in black; the print is in excellent condition; some light marks to margins of …

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# 37694

TAYLOR, J. (James)

Benny Roy’s camp, Worturpa. (Aboriginal miner).

[Title from printed caption in lower margin]. [Published ca. 1900; the original photograph may have been taken as early as ca. 1890]. Collotype process print with hand colouring,145 x 225 mm (image), on sheet 270 x 370 mm; lower margin of sheet with imprint of ‘J. Taylor, Collotype, Adelaide, S. A.’ and printed caption in …

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# 37854

REILLY, Dianne & Jennifer CAREW

Sun Pictures of Victoria : The Fauchery-Daintree Collection 1858

Melbourne : Library Council of Victoria, 1983. First edition. Quarto (295 x 260 mm), publisher’s gilt-lettered black cloth over boards, in pictorial dust jacket (lightly rubbed), pp 143, with 53 full-page photographic plates, introductory essay, notes and references; a very good copy. The French photographer and writer Antoine Fauchery (1823-1861) arrived in Australia in 1852 and …

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# 37084

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

Photographic portraits of Gellibrand and Jammawing, both Gulidjan speakers, Western District, Victoria, circa 1877.

Two albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, 106 x 63 mm (mounts), versos of mounts with contemporary inscriptions in ink ‘Gellebrand [sic] / Colac’ and ‘Jammawing / Colac’, respectively; the albumen prints are in good condition (the horizontal scratch on the Gellibrand print is in the original glass negative; the Jammawing print has some …

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# 36812

CAIRE, Nicholas John (1837-1918)

Cobb & Co. coach delivering Royal Mail for Aborigines at Coranderrk, circa 1904.

[Melbourne : s.n., between 1905 and 1910]. Sepia tone lithographic postcard from an original photograph by N. J. Caire; 91 x 137 mm, recto with generic printed caption ‘Australian Aboriginals’, verso without publisher’s imprint; not postally used; the front has a few tiny spots of foxing at top edge, and the back has a few …

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# 32149

BEATTIE, John Watt (1859-1930)

Governor Davey’s Proclamation to the Aborigines, 1816. Presented to the Museum by Mr. A. Bolter, 1867.

[Circa 1890]. [Title from image]. Albumen print photograph of a lithograph held in the collection of the Tasmanian Museum; 260 x 180 mm, blind stamped J. W. Beattie, Photographer, Hobart at lower left; laid down recto of a leaf removed from a 19th-century album; some short edge tears and light foxing at top edge, otherwise in …

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# 34936

[VON HARTITZSCH, Otto] or [SOLOMON, Saul]

Studio portrait of an Aboriginal woman wearing a kangaroo skin cloak, carrying her young child on her back. Adelaide, 1869-75.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 85 x 56 mm; unmounted; a strong print with excellent clarity, in very good condition. Another example of this carte de visite, on a mount bearing the imprint of Otto Von Hartitzsch & Co., 113 Rundle Street, Adelaide, was sold at Charles Leski Auctions (Melbourne) in September 2010. …

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# 33506

ROBLEY, Horatio Gordon (1840-1930) (artist); MONKTON, Charles Henry (1840-1890)

Gateway of Maketu Pa

[Title from inscription on mount]. [Wanganui : C. H. Monkton, circa 1865]. Albumen print photograph of a watercolour sketch by Horatio Gordon Robley, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘London Photographic Company, C. H. Monkton, Manager’; both the albumen print and the mount are in very good condition; …

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# 31254

RIEMER, Gustav Adolph (1842-1899)

[ABORIGINES; WESTERN AUSTRALIA] Australien. King Georges-Sund Wohnungen.

Stereoscopic albumen print photograph (78 x 74 mm each image) on orange card mount (85 x 175 mm); recto of mount with printed caption across lower margin: 342. Australien. King Georges-Sund. Wohnungen; in the left margin: Photographie von G. Riemer, Zahlmeister S.M.S. Hertha. Verlag von Gustav Lierach & Co, Berlin S W 48; and in …

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# 32085

KING, Henry (1855-1923)

Australian Aboriginal, N.S.W.

[Between 1890 and 1900]. Albumen print photograph, 200 x 150 mm, in manuscript in the negative at bottom left ‘481. Australian Aboriginal, N.S.W. / H. King Photo.’; verso with wet stamp of ‘Tost & Rohu, Furriers, Tanners, Naturalists, Taxidermists. Sydney, Aus.’; an exceptionally strong print with excellent clarity, but foxed and with some very light …

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# 31905

Photographer unknown.

Aboriginal men assembled for a public display. Brisbane, circa 1901.

Albumen print photograph, 140 x 200 mm, laid down on its original card mount; no photographer’s imprint; a very strong print with excellent tonal range and clarity, in fine condition. This possibly unique photograph shows a group of over twenty men dressed and painted for ceremony. Assembled in a single line that stretches across an …

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# 25732

J. & O. H. KERCHAVAL

Wedding of Henry McRae and Lizzie Hamilton at Coranderrk Reserve, near Healesville, 25 August 1909.

Silver gelatin photograph printed on card stock, 87 x 138 mm, titled in manuscript in negative ‘McWrae [sic] Hamilton Wedding Coranderrk / Healesville’; verso with photographer/publishers’ imprint ‘J. & O. H. Kercheval, Healesville’ and Kodak Austral box, with handwritten message by a resident of “Carinya, Healesville” containing a racist comment about the wedding party in …

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# 31769

FRAZER & VALLANCE

Batman’s Treaty with the Blacks, 1835

[Title from caption on banner in image]. Melbourne : Frazer & Vallance, [probably 1910]. Gelatin silver print photograph, 100 x 155 mm, laid down on its original board mount ,120 x 165 mm, with the studio imprint in black across the lower margin; verso blank; the print is in good condition with great clarity and …

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# 31394

DUFTY, Walter Frederick (1854-1919)

Studio portrait of three Kanak men, one holding a human skull. New Caledonia, late 1870s.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 106 x 63 mm (mount); verso with wet stamp of ‘W. Dufty & Cie., Photographes, Noumea, N. C.’; the print is a little pale but is in good condition, as is the mount. Walter Dufty, one of four English-born brothers who were pioneers of photography in the islands …

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