New South Wales
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# 37929
Photographer unknown.
The Australian Museum, Sydney, with staff outside including the Curator, Gerard Krefft. Circa 1868.
Albumen print photograph, 135 x 225 mm, no photographer’s imprint; laid down on its original mount of thin card, with a fully contemporary caption in pencil ‘Museum’ at bottom left; the print has exceptional clarity and rich tonal range; the mount has some silverfishing at top left and right, encroaching on the print very slightly …
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# 36836
[VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS]
Images of Australian womanhood, 1910-1925 : fifty photographic portraits of women by Australian studios.
Group of 50 (fifty) gelatin silver print photographs, all printed on postcard stock (as was customary in this period) in uniform format 140 x 90 mm (approximate); 49/50 have studio imprints, and in some cases the sitters are identified on the back; a couple with corner wear and one with light marks, but overall the …
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# 37504
FALK STUDIO
Studio portrait of New Zealand-Australian boxer Otto Cribb. Sydney, circa 1901.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 167 x 108 mm (mount); recto of mount with imprint of ‘FALK / 496 George Street, Sydney’; verso with wet stamp of Melbourne print, postcard and photograph seller W. H. Cooper, Royal Arcade; the albumen print is in good condition; the mount is chipped at two corners, but is …
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# 36841
HOWARD & SHEARSBY (YASS)
Young men on the bank of the Goodradigbee River near Burrinjuck, New South Wales. August, 1914.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 89 x 140 mm, printed on postcard stock; captioned in the negative ‘374. Goodradigbee River, Burrinjuck, Aug. 1914. H & S’; verso imprinted ‘Howard & Shearsby, Yass, N.S.W.’; a very sharp image with great depth of field; not postally used, in superb condition. We have not been able to locate any example …
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![[CUMMERAGUNJA RESERVE] "One of the many houses of the Barmah settlement".](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/11/08161013/2022_DSFB_6936.jpg)
# 37516
BRABAZON, Dennis
[CUMMERAGUNJA RESERVE] “One of the many houses of the Barmah settlement”.
[Title from manuscript caption verso]. [Taken in 1924]. Gelatin silver print photograph, 87 x 137 mm, printed on Kodak Austral postcard stock; verso with fully contemporary inscription in pencil: ‘One of the many houses of the Barmah settlement’; beneath it the wet-stamped name and pencilled address of a relative of the photographer, P. Brabazon, Hardware …
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![[SYDNEY] W. E. Smith Ltd., inaugural picnic, 30 December 1911, Correy's Gardens.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/09/06165955/2022_DSFB_5455.jpg)
# 37031
BRAND (SYDNEY)
[SYDNEY] W. E. Smith Ltd., inaugural picnic, 30 December 1911, Correy’s Gardens.
[Title from handwritten caption in negative]. Gelatin silver print photograph, 87 x 140 mm, printed on postcard stock, captioned in the negative and with the the studio blind stamp of ‘Brand, 37 Park St.’ at bottom right; verso not inscribed; a very sharp print with much detail, in excellent condition. W. E. Smith Ltd. was …
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# 37810
BLACKADDER, Hebert (1877-1937)
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 …
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# 36362
CREELMAN
Studio portrait of Mr. and Mrs. John Brook. Sydney, late 1880s.
Silver albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 160 x 115 mm, recto of mount with gilt imprint of Creelman, Sydney Arcade, Sydney, N.S.W.; the verso has a contemporary inscription ink with name Jno. Brook; the print has excellent clarity and good tonal range (some insignificant mottling in the negative); the gilt-edged mount is in excellent condition. …
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# 37335
SAMUELL, Di
Samuell’s illustrated pocket guide to Sydney
With which is incorporated ‘How to know Sydney’. Sydney : Di Samuell, 1899. Duodecimo, lettered cards, cloth spine, pp. xxxviii; 352, folding maps, photographic illustrations, a very good copy. Very scarce.
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# 37211
MURRAY, A. S.
Twelve hundred miles on the River Murray
With facsimile illustrations in colours by the author. Australia : George Robertson, and London : J. S. Virtue, 1898. Oblong folio, gilt-lettered cloth, lacking the front free endpaper, pp. 36, 15 tipped-in colour plates, corners torn on the frontispiece plate, else a very good copy. Murray’s oversized illustrated folio on the Murray, retracing the route …
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![[CRICKET] Silhouette portrait of Bert Oldfield, Australia and New South Wales. Dated 22 February 1934.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/10/19123324/2022_DSFB_6511.jpg)
# 37396
Maker unknown
[CRICKET] Silhouette portrait of Bert Oldfield, Australia and New South Wales. Dated 22 February 1934.
Black card on white paper, 110 x 80 mm (image), 275 x 190 mm (sheet); captioned and dated in brown ink by the artist at lower left: ‘W. A. Oldfield / 22nd February 1934’; very well preserved. William Albert Stanley “Bert” Oldfield MBE (1894-1976) played representative cricket for New South Wales and Australia as a wicket-keeper. His Test career spanned almost 17 …
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![[GOLD RUSH] The noble ship Manchester in great danger, From continuing the services of a Pilot of the Egyptian Bondage Sea, in lieu of a Pilot of the Service of the Free Emigration Australian Sea.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/10/14151214/2022_DSFB_6424.jpg)
# 37333
TAUNTON, Edmund
[GOLD RUSH] The noble ship Manchester in great danger, From continuing the services of a Pilot of the Egyptian Bondage Sea, in lieu of a Pilot of the Service of the Free Emigration Australian Sea.
[Drop-head title:] [Birmingham?] : [s.n.], [1853]. Broadside, folio sheet 430 x 280 mm, with ‘Second edition’ printed above the title at upper right; verso addressed in manuscript to The Right Honorable Viscount Palmerston, MP, Secretary, Home Department, London with the date of 3 November, and with two contemporary postal markings which record that it was sent from Birmingham on …
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![[SYDNEY] An important letter to Thomas Smyth’s banker in London, regarding a substantial payment he made to David Collins, signed by Collins on the verso.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/10/11172343/2022_DSFB_6292.jpg)
# 37336
[COLLINS] SMYTH, Thomas
[SYDNEY] An important letter to Thomas Smyth’s banker in London, regarding a substantial payment he made to David Collins, signed by Collins on the verso.
Autograph letter signed by Thomas Smyth, dated Sydney, 19 March 1795, addressed to his banker in London, John Madden Esq.; manuscript in ink on a single sheet of laid paper, 227 x 183 mm; endorsed and signed on the verso by David Collins; fine. First Fleeter and Provost Marshal Smyth makes a substantial payment to David …
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![[SYDNEY] Manuscript list of the effects of Third Fleeter Edward Robinson, sold at auction for Samuel Terry by Simeon Lord., January 1821](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/10/11172329/2022_DSFB_6287.jpg)
# 37340
TERRY, Samuel (1776-1838)
[SYDNEY] Manuscript list of the effects of Third Fleeter Edward Robinson, sold at auction for Samuel Terry by Simeon Lord., January 1821
Two sheets, manuscript in ink to the recto of both, each 245 x 183 mm, wove paper; dated Sydney, 16 January 1821; very good, the second sheet with repair to top edge. Samuel Terry buys up the estate of a Third Fleeter. The present manuscripts are clearly the invoices sent by the auctioneer Simeon Lord regarding the …
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# 31067
FISKEN & GIBSON, AGENTS; [BARDWELL, William, photographer]
Catalogue of Sir Samuel Wilson’s pure merino ewes and rams to be sold at Ercildoune, on Thursday, October 28, 1880. Sale to commence at one o’clock precisely.
Cover title: Catalogue of the Third Annual Sale of Sir Samuel Wilson’s … … Ballarat, Vic. : James Curtis, printer [for Fisken & Gibson], 1880. Small octavo (170 mm), original limp red morocco covers (a few stains) with gilt-stamped pictorial device and lettering to front, and a second pictorial device to rear; original marbled endpapers, …
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# 13970
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (facsimile edition limited to 100 copies, 1899)
Reproduced by authority of the Trustees of the Public Library of New South Wales, 1899. Angus & Robertson, 1899. Folio, half-crushed morocco over cloth (a few marks), lettered in gilt to the spine, bookplate from the W. R. Griffiths collection to front pastedown, unpaginated, foxing to edges, photo-lithographed by Vincent Brooks, Day & Sons of …