Photographs - Portraits

# 17895

YORK, Frederick Arlington Viler (1823-1903)

Australian Pelican.

[London : Frederick York, between 1872 and 1875]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, 78 x 77 mm each individual image (irregular), on original green card mount, imprinted recto: ‘Animals in Zoological Gardens / Photographed from Life. London’; verso with original printed paper label: ‘Australian Pelican’; a tiny surface scratch below the eye of the pelican in …

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# 16641

DUFTY, Edward Henry (1850-1905)

Photographic portrait of three Kanak women, New Caledonia, late 1870s

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 65 mm (mount), verso with studio imprint of ‘E. H. Dufty, photographer, Noumea, Nouvelle Caledonie’; the albumen print is slightly faded, the mount with some pale foxing. Edward Henry Dufty (1850-1905), the son of Bath photographer Francis Dufty and his wife Martha (née Stow), left England …

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# 14831

NEWMAN, John Hubert

Photographic portrait of Rev. William Curnow, Wesleyan minister and journalist, Sydney, 1865-68

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format (107 x 64 mm, mount; 60 x 48 mm, oval image); inscribed beneath image in ink in a contemporary hand 'Rev. W. Curnow'; recto and verso with imprint of J.H. Newman, 53 South Head Road, Sydney; recto with light staining and rubbing. Wesleyan Methodist clergyman and journalist William Curnow …

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# 14804

Photographer unknown.

Photographs of Marind-Anim people, southern Dutch New Guinea, circa 1935

Group of 6 (of 12) silver gelatin photographs, each 97 x 69 mm, accompanied by their original envelope printed in Japanese Ran-ryō niuginia Shima shokujinshu no fūzoku [=Customs of a Species of Cannibals from Dutch New-Guinea]; the photographs and envelope are in very good condition. The Marind-Anim inhabit the southeastern region of what was formerly …

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# 14569

LENTZ BROS.

[CIRCUS HISTORY] The Australian Wild Children

Circa 1875. Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 165 x 115 mm, printed caption on mount beneath image, verso with studio imprint of Lentz Bros., Peru, Ind[iana].; the albumen print is a little faded and has some light marks; the mount is in good condition. A portrait of two microencephalic sideshow ‘freaks’, whose physical appearance …

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# 14236

Photographer unknown.

Photographic portraits of Germans and natives, Neu-Mecklenburg, Bismarck Archipelago, circa 1910

Two large format photographic magic lantern glass slides, each 90 x 120 mm, the mounts with paper labels bearing the same contemporary manuscript caption in German Neu-Mecklenburg (the German name for New Ireland) and the imprint of the Bavarian magic lantern firm Lichtbild-Anstalt G. Bachschmid, Kempten-Allgäu; both slides are in superb condition. These intimate portrait …

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# 13894

CAPRA, Giuseppe (1873-1952)

Shearing sheep by machine in North Queensland

Circa 1910. [Title from translation of inscription verso]. Silver gelatin photograph, 165 x 210 mm, contemporary inscriptions in ink verso: “Tosatura a macchina delle pecore in N. Queensland” and “D.G. Capra, Pont St Martin”; unmounted; tiny crease at top right corner, otherwise fine. A photograph showing the animated interior of a Queensland shearing shed. A …

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# 13061

Photographer unknown.

Wedding portrait of an Aboriginal couple, Koonibba Mission, west coast South Australia, circa 1925

Private [i.e. non-commercial] photograph on Velox paper, 101 x 75 mm; verso with paper adhesions from an old album page, but with the violet wet stamp “Velox” still visible; in fine condition. The plaque on the stone building behind the unidentified couple is the foundation stone of the Lutheran Children’s Home, Koonibba, which was opened …

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# 12180

BOAKE, Barcroft Capel

Photographic portrait of a Royal Navy Commodore, Sydney, 1867-77

Albumen print photograph with hand colouring, carte de visite format, 106 x 63 mm, image 77 x 55 mm (oval format), blind stamped lower left Boake Sydney; the verso with imprint of B.C. Boake. Photographer. 330 George St. Sydney. (over Mr. Jones, Jeweller &c.); both the the albumen print and mount are in fine condition. …

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# 11990

BURTON BROS.

Native village – near Suva, Fiji.

Albumen print photograph,150 x 210 mm, numbered and captioned in negative 2522. Native village – near Suva, Fiji, laid down on original board mount with photographer's imprint of Burton, Dunedin at lower right and printed title The Camera in the Coral Islands at lower left, mild foxingaround the edges of mount (not affecting image), otherwise …

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# 10829

DAVIES, William (photographer); [SYME, Ebenezer & David (engravers), attributed]

[CIRCUS HISTORY] The Hairless Horse, Caoutchouc

[Circa 1872]. Albumen print photograph of an engraving, carte de visite format, 63 x 103 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘Davies, Photo. Bourke St., Melbourne’, and printed text headed ‘The Hairless Horse, Caoutchouc’; the albumen print is in excellent condition, with a small surface mark at lower right edge; the mount is clean. We …

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# 10341

GAUL & DUNN

Photographic portrait of Rev. J. Oswald Dykes, Melbourne, October 1867

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm, recto and verso with imprint of 'Gaul & Dunn 75 & 77 Swanston Street, Melbourne', verso with contemporary pencilled inscription 'Rev. J. Oswald Dykes, Octr. 1867' and later inscription in ink 'Died in Scotland Jan. 2nd 1912 Aged 75'; some pale foxing to the …

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# 9655

Photographer unknown.

Australian couples posing in fancy dress in the backyard, circa 1920.

Gelatin silver print photograph, 112 x 152 mm, laid down on original card mount; the print and mount are both in fine condition.

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# 9626

WATKINS, Herbert

Photographic portrait of English operatic tenor Sims Reeves, circa 1865

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 61 mm, verso with imprint of Herbert Watkins, 215 Regent Street [London] and contemporary pencilled inscription Sims Reeves, the albumen print in very good condition (a little pale), the mount clean. John Sims Reeves (1818-1900) was one the most celebrated tenors of the nineteenth century.

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# 4167

MARQUIS, Daniel

Two studio photographs of Aborigines, Brisbane, late 1860s

Albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, each 101 x 64 mm, versos with imprint of D. Marquis, Photographer, George Street, Brisbane, one of the prints slightly pale otherwise both in very good condition, the mounts with some mild toning to the edges and lightly marked verso (one with contemporary pencil annotations). Marquis opened his …

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# 8111

Photographer unknown.

[NEW CALEDONIA] Kanak woman holding her child

Circa 1911. Photographic glass magic lantern slde with hand colouring, 82 x 102 mm, the mount with a contemporary manuscript label '916/11'; a short crack to the lower corner of one of the sheets of covering glass, not affecting the image; otherwise in fine condition.

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