South Australia

  • Meeting of Flinders & Baudin, Encounter Bay SA

    # 6964

    Anon.

    Meeting of Flinders & Baudin, Encounter Bay SA

    [Melbourne?] : maker unknown, [circa 1902]. Glass magic lantern slide, 80 x 80 mm, with a photograph of the plaque commemorating the meeting of Flinders and Baudin in Encounter Bay in 1802 (unveiled April 8, 1902). The glass slide is in fine condition; a later typed caption label to top edge.

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  • [ADELAIDE] Signed photographic portrait of musician A. Wyatt-Mortimer, 1892

    # 6329

    HAMMER & CO. [WYATT-MORTIMER, A, 1856-1896]

    [ADELAIDE] Signed photographic portrait of musician A. Wyatt-Mortimer, 1892

    Large format albumen print photograph, 360 x 260 mm, laid down on its original board mount with gilt embossed imprint of 'Hammer & Co. 6 Rundle St, Adelaide' to recto (mount trimmed slightly along the lower edge), the albumen print signed in ink 'Ever yours sincerely, A. Wyatt Mortimer', verso of mount with contemporary manuscript label …

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  • Grammar of the Narrinyeri tribe of Australian Aborigines

    # 5513

    TAPLIN, Reverend George

    Grammar of the Narrinyeri tribe of Australian Aborigines

    Adelaide : E. Spiller, Govt. Printer, 1880. Octavo, original printed wrappers (tiny top corner piece missing throughout), staple bound, old library stamp to inner front cover, inner hinge of the outer leaves neatly reinforced, 24 pp, internally very clean, a good copy. This grammar of the language of the Ngarrindjeri people of the region around …

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  • [ABORIGINES] Diorama of a bush scene, South Australian Court, Melbourne International Exhibition

    # 5467

    HART, Ludovico (attributed)

    [ABORIGINES] Diorama of a bush scene, South Australian Court, Melbourne International Exhibition

    Albumen print photograph, 210 x 285 mm, laid down on its original album leaf of thin card, no photographer’s imprint; the albumen print is in good condition with excellent tonal range, a small surface blemish to the right of the Aboriginal figures in lower left corner, and some fading towards the upper and right margins; …

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  • Aboriginal woman in European dress. Far North of South Australia, circa 1875.

    # 5105

    PERRY, H. R. (1846-1936)

    Aboriginal woman in European dress. Far North of South Australia, circa 1875.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 61 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘H. R. Perry, Photographer‘; a good print, the upper right edge a little roughened, the mount free of foxing. In 1875-76 the travelling photographer Harry Perry made a circular trip through the interior of South Australia from Port Pirie, …

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