Photographs - Ethnography

  • Aboriginal group, including a man wearing a king plate and a Queensland Native Police tracker aiming a rifle. Brisbane, circa 1885.

    # 34328

    HUTCHISON & CO. (ELITE PHOTO CO.)

    Aboriginal group, including a man wearing a king plate and a Queensland Native Police tracker aiming a rifle. Brisbane, circa 1885.

    Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 163 x 108 mm (mount); recto with imprint of ‘Hutchison & Co., Elite [Photo Co.], 8 Queen St., Brisbane’; the print has some pale foxing scattered around the margins; the mount is clean and stable. This group portrait was taken in a photographer’s studio, presumably that of Eddie Hutchison’s …

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  • Thomson time : Arnhem Land in the 1930s : a photographic essay

    # 34062

    WISEMAN, Judith Proctor

    Thomson time : Arnhem Land in the 1930s : a photographic essay

    Melbourne : Museum of Victoria, 1997. Quarto, boards in glassine dustjacket (tear with tape repair to head, edges rubbed), illustrated endpapers, pp. xvii, 94, illustrated. Photographs by anthropologist Donald Thomson. This is an insight into an important period of Australian history and the lives of Yolngu people of Arnhem Land in the 1930s. This was …

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  • Sydenham Bowden and his young servant. Melbourne, circa 1874.

    # 32754

    JOHNSTONE, O'SHANNESSY & CO.

    Sydenham Bowden and his young servant. Melbourne, circa 1874.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 64 mm (mount); verso imprinted ‘Johnstone, O’Shannessy & Co., Artist Photographers, By Appointment to H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh, K.G., and to His Excellency the Governor. 3 Bourke St. East, next the Post Office, Melbourne’; the print has some light mottling in the negative, but is …

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  • Gateway of Maketu Pa

    # 33506

    ROBLEY, Horatio Gordon (1840-1930) (artist); MONKTON, Charles Henry (1840-1890)

    Gateway of Maketu Pa

    [Title from inscription on mount]. [Wanganui : C. H. Monkton, circa 1865]. Albumen print photograph of a watercolour sketch by Horatio Gordon Robley, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘London Photographic Company, C. H. Monkton, Manager’; both the albumen print and the mount are in very good condition; …

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  • A Torres Strait Island man on Palm Island, North Queensland, circa 1930.

    # 33721

    ROSE STEREOGRAPH COMPANY

    A Torres Strait Island man on Palm Island, North Queensland, circa 1930.

    Gelatin silver print photograph printed on card stock; recto with printed caption across lower margin ‘The Rose Series P7307. Nth. Queensland Aboriginal, Palm Island’; verso printed ‘Post Card’ and with imprint of the Rose Stereoview Co., Armadale, Victoria, and brief handwritten message with racist remark ‘How would you like to meet one of these?’; mailed from …

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  • Album of the kings &​ queens of Victoria

    # 33446

    KRUGER, Johann Friedrich Carl (Fred), (1831-1888); [PERKINS, Horace]

    Album of the kings &​ queens of Victoria

    [Melbourne : compiled and published by H. Perkins & Co., The Gift Depot, c.1880]. Duodecimo, blue papered boards with gilt stamped lettering and ornament, cloth spine, containing folding concertina of [12] panels with lithographic illustrations after Kruger’s photographic portraits of surviving leaders of Aboriginal tribes of Victoria, originally taken at various times between around 1866 …

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  • Portraits of Oceania

    # 33251

    ANNEAR, Judy et al.

    Portraits of Oceania

    Sydney, N.S.W. : The Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 122, illustrated. Co-ordinating curator & editor, Judy Annear ; exhibition research & assistant curator, Wayne Tunnicliffe ; assistant co-ordinator, Silvia Velez ; photography assistant & copy editor, Robyn Donohue. Portraits of Oceania is drawn from the collection of the Art …

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  • [ABOLITIONISM; BRAZIL] Henry (Harry) Ulusiboo, a slave freed by British diplomat Henry Hayne in Rio de Janeiro, probably around 1820.

    # 32889

    Photographer unknown.

    [ABOLITIONISM; BRAZIL] Henry (Harry) Ulusiboo, a slave freed by British diplomat Henry Hayne in Rio de Janeiro, probably around 1820.

    [Southampton, U.K.? : photographer unidentified, circa 1870]. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount); verso with an ink inscription, probably contemporaneous with the portrait, ‘Harry Ulusiboo, for 50 years servant to Henry Hayne Esq., who bought and “freed” him at Rio about 1817’, and with a small mounted albumen print …

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  • Governor Davey’s Proclamation to the Aborigines, 1816. Presented to the Museum by Mr. A. Bolter, 1867.

    # 32149

    BEATTIE, John Watt (1859-1930)

    Governor Davey’s Proclamation to the Aborigines, 1816. Presented to the Museum by Mr. A. Bolter, 1867.

    [Circa 1890]. [Title from image]. Albumen print photograph of a lithograph held in the collection of the Tasmanian Museum; 260 x 180 mm, blind stamped J. W. Beattie, Photographer, Hobart at lower left; laid down recto of a leaf removed from a 19th-century album; some short edge tears and light foxing at top edge, otherwise in …

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  • [ABORIGINES; WESTERN AUSTRALIA] Australien. King Georges-Sund Wohnungen.

    # 31254

    RIEMER, Gustav Adolph (1842-1899)

    [ABORIGINES; WESTERN AUSTRALIA] Australien. King Georges-Sund Wohnungen.

    Stereoscopic albumen print photograph (78 x 74 mm each image) on orange card mount (85 x 175 mm); recto of mount with printed caption across lower margin: 342. Australien. King Georges-Sund. Wohnungen; in the left margin: Photographie von G. Riemer, Zahlmeister S.M.S. Hertha. Verlag von Gustav Lierach & Co, Berlin S W 48; and in …

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  • Bitter fruit : Australian photographs to 1963

    # 29297

    GRAHAM-STEWART, Michael; McWHANNELL, Francis; DICKSON, Jonathan

    Bitter fruit : Australian photographs to 1963

    Melbourne : Michael Graham-Stewart, 2017. Quarto (285 x 230 mm), cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket, 280 pp, illustrated in colour throughout with hundreds of photographs documenting the collision of Indigenous Australian and European cultures; the photographs, ranging in date from the 1850s to the 1960s and taken in every region of Australia, represent some …

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  • Photographic portrait of a Māori woman with moko, circa 1880.

    # 20093

    PRICE, Thomas Edward (1838-1928)

    Photographic portrait of a Māori woman with moko, circa 1880.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 63 mm (mount), verso imprinted ‘Photographed by Thos. E. Price, Photographer, Masterton, New Zealand’; both the albumen print and mount are in very good condition.

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  • Australian Aboriginal, N.S.W.

    # 32085

    KING, Henry (1855-1923)

    Australian Aboriginal, N.S.W.

    [Between 1890 and 1900]. Albumen print photograph, 200 x 150 mm, in manuscript in the negative at bottom left ‘481. Australian Aboriginal, N.S.W. / H. King Photo.’; verso with wet stamp of ‘Tost & Rohu, Furriers, Tanners, Naturalists, Taxidermists. Sydney, Aus.’; an exceptionally strong print with excellent clarity, but foxed and with some very light …

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  • Aboriginal men assembled for a public display. Brisbane, circa 1901.

    # 31905

    Photographer unknown.

    Aboriginal men assembled for a public display. Brisbane, circa 1901.

    Albumen print photograph, 140 x 200 mm, laid down on its original card mount; no photographer’s imprint; a very strong print with excellent tonal range and clarity, in fine condition. This possibly unique photograph shows a group of over twenty men dressed and painted for ceremony. Assembled in a single line that stretches across an …

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  • Wedding of Henry McRae and Lizzie Hamilton at Coranderrk Reserve, near Healesville, 25 August 1909.

    # 25732

    J. & O. H. KERCHAVAL

    Wedding of Henry McRae and Lizzie Hamilton at Coranderrk Reserve, near Healesville, 25 August 1909.

    Silver gelatin photograph printed on card stock, 87 x 138 mm, titled in manuscript in negative ‘McWrae [sic] Hamilton Wedding Coranderrk / Healesville’; verso with photographer/publishers’ imprint ‘J. & O. H. Kercheval, Healesville’ and Kodak Austral box, with handwritten message by a resident of “Carinya, Healesville” containing a racist comment about the wedding party in …

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  • Batman's Treaty with the Blacks, 1835

    # 31769

    FRAZER & VALLANCE

    Batman’s Treaty with the Blacks, 1835

    [Title from caption on banner in image]. Melbourne : Frazer & Vallance, [probably 1910]. Gelatin silver print photograph, 100 x 155 mm, laid down on its original board mount ,120 x 165 mm, with the studio imprint in black across the lower margin; verso blank; the print is in good condition with great clarity and …

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