Photographs - Portraits
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# 37087
BURMAN, William J.
Photographic portrait of a lady, with a significant studio advertisement on the back. Melbourne, circa 1868.
Albumen print photograph with hand colouring, carte de visite format, 102 x 66 mm (mount); verso with the studio’s highly decorative back mark, worded: ‘Burman’s Views of the Public Buildings, Street, Gardens &c of Melbourne and the Principal Towns of Victoria. 6d each copy. Photographed by W. Burman, Exhibition Portrait Rooms, 94 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne. …
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# 37511
Photographer unknown.
Crowd on Queenscliff Pier, Victoria, taken in the summer of 1921.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 87 x 137 mm, printed on Kodak Austral postcard stock; verso inscribed in pencil ‘Queenscliff 1921’; superb condition. Taken by an amateur photographer with a personal camera, this picture captures the expectant and happy atmosphere of men, women and children awaiting the arrival of the ferry at Queenscliff on a summer’s …
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# 37502
Photographer unknown.
Large group of gold miners at Mount Egerton, near Ballarat, circa 1890.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 111 x 166 mm; no photographer’s imprint; verso inscribed in a much later hand: ‘Gold mine pit head, Mount Egerton, 1900-1908, not any later. My grandfather died 1908 and he is in the photo. I believe it is either Whipstick or Princess Regent Mine‘; the print is in very …
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![[MELBOURNE] Novelty photograph of two men in a biplane flying over Luna Park, St. Kilda.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/11/08161117/2022_DSFB_6955.jpg)
# 37509
WHITNEY BROS. ELECTRIC STUDIO
[MELBOURNE] Novelty photograph of two men in a biplane flying over Luna Park, St. Kilda.
St. Kilda, Vic. : Whitney Bros. Electric Studio, [ca. 1920]. Gelatin silver print photograph, 137 x 87 mm, printed on postcard stock; verso imprinted Electric Post Card Studio, Whitney Bros., Luna Park, St. Kilda, Melbourne, Australia; the print has a couple of tiny spots of silverfishing but is otherwise in very good condition.
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# 37202
RICHARDS, George
Studio portrait of a woman in her wedding dress. Ballarat, Victoria, late 1880s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 63 mm (mount); verso imprinted in gold ‘From the Studio of Geo. Richards, Art Photographer, Ballarat’, illustrated with an artist’s palette; both the print and mount are in excellent condition. A beautiful full-length wedding portrait taken in the studio of Ballarat photographer George Richards.
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# 37291
Photographer unknown.
Landau carriage, Hobart, late 1920s.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 120 x 200 mm, laid down on its original card mount; the image has an early inscription in black ink ‘In Hobart, Tas. Feb. 29’, and in later blue pen the date ‘1925’ has been written twice; the verso of the mount has a faded newspaper cutting from the period with …
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![[SYDNEY] W. E. Smith Ltd., inaugural picnic, 30 December 1911, Correy's Gardens.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/09/06165955/2022_DSFB_5455.jpg)
# 37031
BRAND (SYDNEY)
[SYDNEY] W. E. Smith Ltd., inaugural picnic, 30 December 1911, Correy’s Gardens.
[Title from handwritten caption in negative]. Gelatin silver print photograph, 87 x 140 mm, printed on postcard stock, captioned in the negative and with the the studio blind stamp of ‘Brand, 37 Park St.’ at bottom right; verso not inscribed; a very sharp print with much detail, in excellent condition. W. E. Smith Ltd. was …
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# 37702
AMERICAN PHOTO CO.
An Australian precursor to the photo booth portrait? Melbourne, circa 1900.
Printing-out-paper print, 30 x 21 mm, on original embossed card mount, 64 x 59 mm; verso with the wet stamp of the American Photo Co. 118 Bourke St. Melbourne’; good condition.
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# 37810
BLACKADDER, Hebert (1877-1937)
Members of the Crookwell Rifle Club during a “shoot”. Southern Tablelands, New South Wales, circa 1907.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 86 x 137 mm, printed on postcard stock; handwritten caption in the negative: ‘Crookwell Rifle Club / Blackadder’; no message to verso; in excellent condition. According to Barrie (Australians behind the camera), Herbert Blackadder was a professional photographer working from premises in Goulburn Street, Crookwell, in 1905-07. He later worked as …
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# 36362
CREELMAN
Studio portrait of Mr. and Mrs. John Brook. Sydney, late 1880s.
Silver albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 160 x 115 mm, recto of mount with gilt imprint of Creelman, Sydney Arcade, Sydney, N.S.W.; the verso has a contemporary inscription ink with name Jno. Brook; the print has excellent clarity and good tonal range (some insignificant mottling in the negative); the gilt-edged mount is in excellent condition. …
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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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# 37203
STUBBS, Frederick
Studio wedding portrait. St. Arnaud, Victoria, circa 1900.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 164 x 106 mm (mount); recto with photographer’s imprint to lower margin ‘F. Stubbs, St. Arnaud’ (a little faded); verso blank; the print is in superb condition. A rather stiffly posed wedding portrait of an unidentified Wimmera couple.
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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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# 37097
THE CROWN STUDIOS (SYDNEY)
Presented to the Hon. W. A. Holman, M.L.A., leader of the Parliamentary Labor Party and Premier of New South Wales, by his colleagues, in token of esteem and to wish him “Many Happy Returns of the Day”. August 4th 1914.
[Title from caption in negative]. Gelatin silver print, 370 x 280 mm, laid down on its original mount of thick board; a composite photograph with head-and-shoulder vignette portraits of all the elected MLAs of the New South Wales Labor Party, with W. A. Holman at the centre; a few tiny marks at upper left, otherwise in …
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# 36848
LINDT, J. W. (John William) (1845-1926)
Studio portrait of a bearded gentleman. Melbourne, circa 1880. (With Lindt’s “View of Melbourne” back mark).
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format (165 x 110 mm), verso with Lindt’s illustrated advertisement for his studio at 7 Collins Street East, with a superb lithographic bird’s eye view of Melbourne at centre, and below it a cartouche listing Lindt’s major portfolios (Album of Australian Aboriginals; Characteristic Australian Forest Scenery; Genre Pictures of Bush …
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# 36944
STEWART & CO.
Portrait of a young woman with beautiful long hair. Melbourne, circa 1890.
Albumen silver print photograph, cabinet card format, 165 x 107 mm; recto of mount imprinted ‘Stewart & Co., 284-286 Bourke Street, Melbourne’; verso blank; a superb print in excellent condition.