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 Leece Rixon (1896-1936), of Uralla in the New England district of New South Wales.