Photographs - Portraits
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# 26486
TOOSE, Henry
Children and teachers outside their school building. South coast of New South Wales, 1873.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 62 x 102 mm; verso with imprint of H. Toose, Photographic Artist, [the printed address, Corrimel Street, Wollongong, A few doors from Crown Street, has been crossed out by the photographer], and contemporary inscription in ink ‘Nov. 1st 73’; the albumen print has a little mottling in the negative, …
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# 27611
Photographer and maker unknown.
Re-treatment plant at Kalgoorlie, Western Australian goldfields. Circa 1900.
[s.l., s.n., circa 1900]. Photographic glass magic lantern slide, 82 x 82 mm, with original manuscript caption label ‘Kalgurli (sic) Retreatment Plant’; in very good condition.
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# 27329
BARDWELL, William H. (1836-1929)
Self-portrait of William Bardwell, pioneer photographer of the Victorian goldfields. Melbourne, circa 1880.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 165 x 109 mm (mount), recto imprinted in gold across lower margin ‘Bardwell / 21 Collins Street East, Melbourne / Instantaneous Photographs’; verso blank; the print has a short horizontal indentation with a small surface abrasion at centre left edge, but is otherwise in very good condition; the mount is …
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# 27352
HIDER, James
A hunter and his dogs. Warrnambool district, Victoria, circa 1870.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 61 mm (mount), verso of mount with ornate gilt imprint of ‘J. Hider, Photographer. Opposite the Post Office. Warrnambool’; the print has beautiful greyish tones and excellent clarity, and aside from some mild surface rubbing is in fine condition. Unusually informal for a colonial photograph of …
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# 26965
ADELAIDE PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY
Vignette portrait of an unidentified boy. Adelaide, circa 1865.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 100 x 61 mm (mount), verso with imprint of ‘The Adelaide Photographic Company, Neales’ Buildings, King William St.’; both the print and mount are in fine condition. A superb vignette head-and-shoulders portrait of a strikingly handsome youth, no doubt a scion of one of Adelaide’s elite families. The …
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# 26683
ANSON & FRANCIS
Photographic portrait of a mother and her young daughter. Adelaide, 1863-65.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm (mount), verso imprinted ‘Photographed by Anson & Francis, Adelaide Photographic Institution, 97 Rundle Street’; some scattered light foxing to the print and mount. Davies & Stanbury (The Mechanical Eye) list Anson & Francis at their 97 Rundle Street address between 1863 and 1868. This rather …
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# 26691
WATSON, John
Vignette portrait of a young man wearing a bow-tie. Brisbane, circa 1865.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 63 mm (mount), verso with imprint of ‘J. Watson, Photographic Artist. Queen Street, Brisbane’; both the albumen print and mount are in superb condition. From DAAO: ‘John Watson, professional photographer, operated a photographic studio during the second half of 1855 in Edward Street, Brisbane, as a …
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# 26026
HAMMER & CO. (ADELAIDE)
Photographic portrait of Carl Gaden of Mt. Gambier, South Australia, mid 1880s.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 166 x 110 mm (mount); verso of mount with imprint of ‘Hammer & Co., Photographers, 172 Rundle Str., Adelaide’, and old identifying caption in pencil ‘Carl Gaden (Mt. Gambier)’; both the print and mount are in fine condition. The Adelaide studio of German-born photographer William H. (Wilhelm Heinrich) Hammer was …
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# 24312
[ROBERTS BROS.]
H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh and suite in mining costume after descending The Band of Hope Gold Mine, Ballarat, Australia. Decr. 10th 1867.
[Title from printed caption on mount]. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount), recto of mount with gilt-lettered caption and gilt border around the print; no photographer’s imprint; verso (as in other examples) with 3 decorative cartouches in gilt for mounting small portraits; the print has mottling in the negative, as …
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# 13238
Photographer unknown.
[GOLD RUSH] Ambrotype of Samuel and Elizabeth Bates, emigrants to Australia, 1855
[United Kingdom or France] : [s.n.], 1855. Quarter plate ambrotype photograph with hand colouring, 130 x 105 mm, with original passe-partout frame comprising the cover glass (180 x 140 mm) and papered chip-board preserver with oval cut-out and gold painted border; the ambrotype with the original blackened backing paper intact, affixed to the back of …
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# 25226
SCOTT, Charles P. (1878-1928)
Suite of ten photographs taken on Allendale or Todmorden Stations near Oodnadatta, South Australia, 1903-04.
Ten silver gelatin print photographs, most in format 150 x 200 mm (some smaller), laid down in pairs on rectos of five contemporary board mounts; versos with original owner’s name E. S. Chase inscribed in ink (probably Edward Selwyn Chase, an Anglican minister associated with the Church Missionary Society); the group comprises portraits of local Aboriginal …
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# 24892
BRYSON & HEYWOOD (SWAN HILL)
Two Aboriginal boys with three European men, posing in front of a homestead near Swan Hill on the Murray River (Victorian or New South Wales side), circa 1875.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 92 x 120 mm (image), 108 x 165 mm (mount), verso with the photographers’ names in manuscript ‘Bryson & Heywood, Swan Hill’; there is some staining to the top edge of the print and to the margin of the mount, but the print, though a little pale, has excellent …
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# 24823
Signed promotional photograph for Australian vaudeville performer Rosie Rifle, a celebrated sharpshooter.
[Chicago, U.S.A. : Repro Celebrity, 1921]. Gelatin silver print, 250 x 200 mm; a photomontage of a shooting target with a head-and-shoulders portrait of Rosie Rifle as the bullseye, inscribed in ink in her own hand: ‘Yours truly, Rosie Rifle, Australia’s Rifle Expert’; verso inscribed in ink in another (fully contemporary) hand: ‘Rosie Rifle & …
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# 25038
Photographer(s) unknown.
Archive of photographs belonging to a Dutch East India Company coffee plantation overseer in East Java, early 1900s.
This small archive of 32 photographs – taken with a variety of camera types, and for the most part by different amateur photographers – was compiled by a Dutch East India Company employee, and documents his life as an overseer on a Company coffee plantation in East Java in the early 1900s. The backs of …
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# 24738
DURYEA, Townsend
Photographic portrait of businessman Edward Neale Wigg, eldest son of Adelaide bookseller E. S. Wigg. December, 1868.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 64 mm (mount), recto with a contemporary caption in ink identifying the sitter as ‘Edw. N. Wigg’ and dated December 27 1868; verso with the illustrated back mark of Adelaide’s most prestigious photographer, Townsend Duryea, and contemporary note in pencil ‘Son of E. S. Wigg’; both the print …
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# 11209
Chase, H. L. (attrib.) & Williams, J. J. (attrib.)
Photographs of Hawaii, 1870-1883
Eleven albumen print photographs mounted recto and verso of [7] pages removed from a nineteenth century travel album, all in format 175 x 235 mm, contemporary captions in French and English in ink beneath each image, the prints attached to the leaves with the original double-sided adhesive tape at each corner, occasional foxing and mild …