Adelaide, E.S. Wigg & Son, [1880s]. The views are mainly street scenes and public buildings; all of them are illustrated on our website. Two of the plates are signed in the negative 'Sweet | Adelaide', and the balance of the photographs are almost certainly his work. We have a similar..... More
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Adelaide, E.S. Wigg & Son, [1880s]. The views are mainly street scenes and public buildings; all of them are illustrated on our website. Three of the plates are signed in the negative 'Sweet | Adelaide' (albeit an attempt has been made in two of them to mask these details), and..... More
Captain Samuel White Sweet (1825-1886), sea captain, surveyor and photographer: after he was censured when his ship ran aground in 1875, he 'retired from the sea, opened a photographic studio in Adelaide and concentrated on landscapes. With his horse-drawn dark room he travelled through South Australia taking hundreds of skilful..... More
Captain Samuel White Sweet (1825-1886), sea captain, surveyor and photographer: after he was censured when his ship ran aground in 1875, he 'retired from the sea, opened a photographic studio in Adelaide and concentrated on landscapes. With his horse-drawn dark room he travelled through South Australia taking hundreds of skilful..... More
George Taplin (1831-1879), missionary and teacher, began his work with the Ngarrindjeri in April 1859; the 'site he chose for a settlement on the shores of Lake Alexandrina was a traditional camping ground called Raukkan (The Ancient Way), known to Europeans as Point McLeay.... Keenly interested in Ngarrindjeri culture and..... More
The photographer's credit and reference number ('Sweet | Adelaide | 526') is scratched in the negative. The photograph was taken from on top of the Kent Town Brewery, looking west along Rundle Street across the parklands, taking in all to the right (north) as far as the old Royal Adelaide..... More
The photograph shows the eastern side of a fairly quiet King William Street; the clockless tower of the Town Hall has a prominent position to the right of the image. Captain Samuel White Sweet (1825-1886), was a sea captain, surveyor and photographer: after he was censured when his ship ran..... More
The Bank of South Australia building still stands on King William Street, Adelaide. The photographer's credit and reference number ('Sweet | Adelaide | 92') is scratched in the negative. The imposing hospital buildings, now demolished, are photographed from an elevated vantage point (probably the roof of the Botanic Hotel across..... More
The photographer's credit and reference number ('Sweet | Adelaide | 335') is scratched in the negative of the City Bridge (the second bridge built over the Torrens at that spot, in 1877). Oarsmen in four boats in the foreground have clearly paused for the event, as have the numerous pedestrians..... More
The first photograph appears to be taken from the top of the (old) Treasury Building, looking south-west across the square at the imposing Supreme Court building, still extant. The second photograph is a panoramic view of the city skyline, centred on the towers of the Town Hall and the GPO;..... More
Adelaide, Carey, Page & Co., Printers ('Published under the Author's own immediate Supervision'), 1885. The photographs are of Captain Samuel White Sweet (130 × 71 mm, presumably a self-portrait), and George Loyau (98 × 58 mm, credited in the negative to George & Walton: he is facing the camera, with..... More