Studio portrait of Turrbal or Jagera men and women. Brisbane, c.1870.

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 61 mm (mount); verso with wet stamp of ‘S. Duesbury, Photographer, Brisbane’; some very pale foxing to the print and the mount.

Staffordshire-born photographer Samuel Duesbury was active in Brisbane from 1868. Along with Thomas Bevan, Daniel Marquis, and John Watson, he was one of the four Brisbane photographers known to have taken studio portraits of local Aboriginal people in the 1860s and early 1870s.