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 a dentist and chemist, but he clearly also took a keen interest in local amateur sports as newspaper reports tell us he refereed rugby matches in the Crookwell district.