Photographs - Portraits
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# 45904
FARNDELL, Edward; DURYEA, Townsend; MARCHANT, E. W.; VON HARTITZSCH, Otto; RUSHTON & JUST; STUMP & CO., et al.
Alma Plains and Adelaide, South Australia : an important pioneer settlers’ photograph album with portraits of members of families associated with the Church of Christ. 1860s-80s.
Quarto (290 x 230 mm), embossed green leather decorated in gilt (upper board detached and lacking backstrip); title leaf with later family member’s inscription identifying the original owners of the album as ‘Janet and William Howard, Alma Plains – Dalkey’; containing a total of [82] albumen print photographs – [73] in carte de visite format, …
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# 46141
[Various Wellington photographers]
[NEW ZEALAND] An archive of studio portrait photographs of members of the families of Benjamin and Edward Smith of Wellington, 1860s to early 1870s.
Twenty-five albumen print photographs in carte de visite format, average dimensions 100 x 63 mm (mounts), by the Wellington studios of E. S. Richards (4), Richards & Batt (1), Batt & Richards (2), W. H. Davis (7), W. J. Harding (1), Wrigglesworth (1), and Wrigglesworth & Binns (1), and the Wanganui studio of Thomas Tuffin …
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# 46283
[Photographer unknown]
Occupational tintype portrait of two bakers, one holding a giant spatula. Australia, 1880s.
Gem tintype photograph, 40 x 30 mm (sight), in its original ormulu (copper foil) preserver with pressed design (50 x 37 mm), with the original cover glass; fine condition. Sourced with a group of Tasmanian cartes de visite, all portraits by H. H. Baily and Alfred Winter. The rough wooden fence behind the two men in …
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# 46281
HARVEY & DUNDEN
Studio portrait of Andrew Sloan, seated and holding a book. Geelong, Victoria, c.1875.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 63 mm (mount); recto of mount with a fully contemporary inscription in ink identifying the sitter as ‘Andrew Sloan’; verso with back mark of ‘Harvey & Dunden, Corner Portrait Gallery, Moorabool St., Geelong’; some very light foxing to the print and the mount. We are confident …
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# 46461
[PAAR, Theodor, attributed]
Portraits of Himalayan types, including Nepalese and Tibetan, taken in Darjeeling, 1890s.
Group of 5 (five) albumen print photographs removed from the same late nineteenth-century album, all attributed to the Darjeeling photographer Theodor Paar. I. The Witch at Ghoom. [Caption on mount]. 200 x 150 mm, mounted recto of card mount; very good condition. The subject is believed to have been a Bhutia woman from Tibet, living …
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# 46363
USAF (NORTHEAST AIR COMMAND)
Small archive of original photographs taken at Narsarssuak (Narsarsuaq) Airbase, Greenland, 1942-45.
Group of 7 (seven) gelatin silver print photographs, in uniform 200 x 250 mm format; no inscriptions to versos, but presumably taken by a USAF serviceman; all of the prints are in excellent condition. These original photographs, taken sometime between 1942 and 1945, show USAF personnel at the airbase at Narsarssuak (Narsarsuaq), Greenland, which had been …
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# 41732
WRIGGLESWORTH & BINNS
Studio portrait of two actors in costume as Robinson Crusoe and Friday. Wellington, New Zealand, 17 October 1881.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 163 x 116 mm; verso with imprint of ‘Wrigglesworth & Binns, Willis Street, Wellington, New Zealand’, and contemporary inscription in ink ‘Oct. 17th 1881’; both the print and mount are in fine condition.
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# 45876
EDEN SOCIETY STUDIOS
Studio portrait of a man in Salvation Army uniform, posed with his tuba. Sydney, late 1890s.
Sepia-tone gelatin silver print photograph, cabinet card format, 168 x 107 mm (mount); recto with the imprint of ‘Eden Society Studios’; the print is in very good condition; the mount has a couple of spots of foxing.
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# 45877
THE CROWN STUDIOS
Studio portrait of a couple in Salvation Army uniform. Sydney, late 1890s.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 163 x 106 mm (mount); recto with the imprint of ‘The Crown Studios, George and Market Streets, Sydney’; the print is in very good condition; the mount has some toning.
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# 45878
PEEL'S MODERN STUDIOS
Studio portrait of Master Laban Rixon in Salvation Army uniform, posed with his tuba. Sydney, 1909-10.
Sepia-tone gelatin silver print photograph, cabinet card format, 165 x 106 mm (mount); recto with the imprint of ‘Peel’s Modern Studios, 482 George St., Sydney’; verso with a fully contemporary inscription in pencil ‘Mr. Laban Rixon’; the print has a few light marks, and the mount is toned. We believe the young sitter is Laban …
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# 45870
EDEN SOCIETY STUDIOS
Studio portrait of a young woman in Salvation Army uniform, posed with her zither. Sydney, circa 1895.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 168 x 107 mm (mount); recto with the imprint of ‘Eden Society Studios’; the print has a few tiny burn marks (probably cigar ash) towards the top edge, but is otherwise in excellent condition, as is the mount.
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# 46334
B. W. KILBURN (publisher)
Coral divers with their wealth, on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
[Title from printed caption on mount]. Littleton, New Hampshire : B. W. Kilburn, 1904. Stereoscopic silver gelatin print photograph, each individual image 77 x 77 mm, on pink board mount 88 x 179 mm, with the publisher’s serial number and caption ‘15945. Coral divers with their wealth, on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia’, along with …
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# 46475
ROBINSON, J.
Female nursing staff at the South Sydney Women’s Hospital, Camperdown, c.1906.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 138 x 87 mm, printed on Empire Post Card stock, blind-stamped lower centre ‘J. ROBINSON, CA[MPERDOWN?]; mailed by [Mr.] C. Devlin of Kogarah to Miss Katie Oakes of 15 Farr Street, Rockdale (now Banksia) on 18 September 190[6?]; the print has excellent clarity (every face can be seen in detail!), and …
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# 41770
CROFT BROTHERS
Ambrotype portrait of a seated woman in a blue dress and lace holding a daguerreotype case. Sydney, New South Wales, circa 1861.
Sixth plate ambrotype photograph with applied colour, 80 x 70 mm; housed in a nonpareil brass mat stamped ‘CROFT’ at l.r., in a leather case with embossed ‘vase of flowers’ motif (case separated along the cloth hinge, but with a working clasp); the ambrotype is in exceptionally fine condition. This enigmatic studio portrait of a strikingly …
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# 43634
Photographer unknown.
Ambrotype portrait of Lady Susannah Wilson (Edmeades) Hindmarsh, wife of the first Governor of South Australia, Sir John Hindmarsh. Taken in England, circa 1856; reframed in Melbourne, 1859.
Quarter-plate ambrotype (wet collodion positive on glass), 100 x 80 mm (sight), in a paper and card mount with oval inset, housed within a colonial gilded timber wall frame with original cover glass (95 x 170 mm); the paper on the back of the frame with an inscription in ink in a refined hand identifying …
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# 43927
MERLIN, Beaufoy (AMERICAN & AUSTRALASIAN PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY)
Staff and pupils outside a Sydney private school (possibly Henry Montagu’s Queen’s College for Young Ladies, Macleay Street, Potts Point), 1870-72.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 64 x 105 mm (mount); verso with the pictorial back mark in violet of the American & Australasian Photographic Company, Beaufoy Merlin, Sydney Office, 324 George Street; the print is a little pale but otherwise in very good condition, as is the mount. Beaufoy Merlin specialised in photographing …