New South Wales
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# 44603
W. H. SCHRÖDER & CO.
George Elliott Alvaro, convicted fraudster, bigamist and violent offender. Sydney, circa 1886.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 64 mm (mount); recto annotated in ink in a bold hand with the name of the sitter ‘G. E. Alvaro’; verso with imprint W. H. Schröder & Co. Photographers, 671 George Street, Haymarket, Sydney’; some light marks to the print and the mount. A Sydney studio …
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# 43901
HETZER, William
Studio portrait of William Huon, pioneer squatter in the Riverina district. Sydney, March 1866.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 62 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘W. Hetzer’s Photographic Gallery, 287, George Street, Sydney, N.S.W.’, and a fully contemporary inscription in ink, identifying the sitter: ‘W. Huon Esq., Wodonga, March 1866’; both the print and mount are in fine condition. William Huon (Campbelltown 1825 – …
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# 44061
RICHARDS, T. E.
Henri L’Estrange, the famed funambulist known as “The Australian Blondin” : four tinted studio portraits. Sydney, ca. 1877.
Four albumen print photographs with hand colouring, carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm (mounts); versos with the imprint of ‘T. E. Richards, American Studio, 324 George Street, Sydney’, and purple wet stamp of the performer ‘H. L’ESTRANGE, THE AUSTRALIAN BLONDIN / COMPLIMENTARY CARD’; some mottling in the negatives, but the prints and mounts …
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# 43875
Unidentified photographer [for LEICAGRAPH CO.]
Group of women ice-skaters. Sydney, circa 1940.
Gelatin silver print photograph taken by a “street photographer” working for the Leicagraph Company, Sydney; 88 x 138 mm; verso with the Leicagraph wet stamp, the negative and order numbers entered in pencil; fine condition. A wonderful snap of a group of women wearing skates on the ice, posed against a painted backdrop with an …
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# 44821
MAGUIRE, H. J.
Studio portrait of a professional reciter and his prompter. Sydney, circa 1885.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 162 x 108 mm (mount); recto of mount imprinted ‘Maguire / Photographer, 195 George Street, Sydney’; verso blank; both the print and mount are in excellent condition. Although these two gentlemen are unidentified, there can be no doubt as to their professional roles. Public reciting was something of a …
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# 44751
AMERICAN & AUSTRALASIAN PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY, HILL END [CLINTON, Augustus]
Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Anlezark. Hill End, New South Wales goldfields, September 1874.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 62 mm (mount); verso wet-stamped in violet ‘American & Australasian Photographic Co. Hill End’, and with a fully contemporary inscription in ink: ‘Septmr. 23[rd] / 74 Mr. & Mrs. Anlezark’ (i.e. Thomas William Anlezark, 1851-1893, and his wife Rachel Campbell); the print has some light surface …
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# 43885
RIISFELDT, Emil
“Miss Matilda Sanville, the smallest Woman in the World….” Sydney, 1875.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 64 mm; verso with printed caption ‘Miss Matilda Sanville, the smallest Woman in the World. Age, 19 … [Height] 31 inches.’, and below it the imprint of ‘E. Riisfeldt, London Photo. Gallery, 616 George Street, Next door to Rush and Rousseau’s, Sydney’; the albumen print is …
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# 43891
CROFT BOTHERS
Studio portrait of a gentleman standing before a painted backdrop of Sydney Harbour. Sydney, circa 1864.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 98 x 62 mm (mount); verso with imprint (in black) of ‘Croft Bros., Photographic Artists, 33 South Head Road, Sydney‘, and an indistinct name in pencil; both the print and mount are in excellent condition. A rare example of the magnificent painted panorama of Sydney Harbour that adorned …
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# 44843
ROSS & CO.'s ROYAL STUDIO OF ARTS
Tinted studio portrait of a young woman holding a flower. Deniliquin, New South Wales Riverina, circa 1877.
Albumen print photograph with hand colouring, carte de visite format, 100 x 63 mm (mount); verso imprinted ‘Ross & Co.’s Royal Studio of Arts, Cressy Street, Deniliquin’, surmounted by the British coat if arms; the print has a couple of tiny marks, but is otherwise in very good condition; the mount is clean. The following …
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# 44039
SCHRÖDER [aka SCHROEDER], William Henry
Tinted studio portrait of a married couple. Sydney, late 1860s.
Albumen print photograph with extensive hand colouring, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm (mount); verso imprinted ‘W. H. Schröder’s Photographic Gallery, 645 George Street (Opposite the Haymarket,), Sydney’; the print has a couple of small ink marks at upper left edge, but is otherwise in excellent condition; the mount is very clean. So …
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# 44955
Society of Artists, Sydney.
Society of Artists : Annual exhibition 1946. Catalogue
[Sydney : The Society, 1946]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers featuring cover design by Douglas Annand; rear cover with advertisement for Berger’s Paint, staple bound, tipped-in red paper admission ticket still affixed to title page, [28] pp, illustrated with 4 b/w plates including Adrian Feint, Jean Appleton and Adelaide Perry; an attractive catalogue listing 248 works …
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# 44621
BLACKWOOD (Olaf) William (1824-1897)
View from the top of Government House looking towards Campbell’s Wharf on the west side of Circular Quay, Sydney, 1858.
Large format albumen print, 190 x 270 mm, in a specially prepared mount with a translucent backing sheet and cedar frame designed for viewing in a Polyrama Panoptique (see below); the cedar frame bears an early inscription in ink: ‘Campbell’s Wharf’; the print is a little faded and has scattered foxing and a few small …
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# 44478
FISON, Lorimer; HOWITT, A. W. (Alfred William)
Kamilaroi and Kurnai (Presentation copy from the authors)
: group-marriage and relationship, and marriage by elopement : drawn chiefly from the usage of the Australian aborigines : also the Kurnai tribe, their customs in peace and war. Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane : George Robertson, 1880. First edition. Octavo (225 x 150 mm), original blind-blocked brown cloth (bright and unrubbed), spine lettered in gilt; presentation …
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# 44728
GORTON, L. V.
A history of Woodville district
Woodville, N.S.W. : L. V. Gorton, 1959 (second edition, January 1987). Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 38, illustrated. Scarce local history. ‘Dunmore House, the Woodville shop/general store is Australia’s oldest continually running business still carrying on the same services it was licensed for in 1844’. – Wikipedia.
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# 44729
BAIRSTOW, Damaris
A Million Pounds, A Million Acres. The Pioneer Settlement of the Australian Agricultural Company.
Cremorne, N.S.W. : the author, 2003. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. xvi; 418, illustrations, a fine copy.
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# 44400
[STRICKLAND, Gerald, Governor]
[SYDNEY] Citizens’ Farewell Dinner to His Excellency The Governor, Sir Gerald Strickland, G.C.M.G., prior to his departure from New South Wales. Town Hall, Sydney, 26th April, 1917.
[Sydney, NSW] : [s.n.], 1917. Souvenir menu. Folding card, 132 x 82 mm, printed in gold on [4] sides; Menu and Toasts at centre, list of members of the Executive Committee on the verso; light marks to front, and some pale water stains to verso (not affecting text). From the ADB: ‘Sir Gerald Strickland, 1st …