![Item #108651 'A Monster Anthill' [Northern Territory, Australia, 1914]. Frank HURLEY](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/108651_00.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1568171363)
Although this print does not have an original 'Fine Art Society, New Bond Street, London' label on the verso, it almost certainly comes from the 1915 Australian exhibition of Hurley's works; this was a slightly enlarged version of the London exhibition held earlier in the same year. The full title..... More
This is an example of item 143 of the 1915 Australian exhibition of Hurley's works, which emanated from the Fine Art Society, London. The full title of the catalogue is 'Exhibition of Unique Photographic Pictures taken during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Also other Photographic Studies by Frank Hurley' (small octavo..... More
Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth A.G., 1927. More
New York, Harper and Row, 1964. Features 148 illustrations, 48 in colour. More
Approximately 315 Edwardian snapshots (120 × 95 mm) of travels in India, China and Central Asia, with some 'at home, at ease' images as well. Apart from curling at the edges, the photographs are in excellent condition. Many are captioned, some are dated (1907), and there are occasional clues to..... More
Image sizes are 100 × 150 mm (three), and 75 × 105 mm or the reverse (eight); all are captioned in ink (eight on the verso of the mount, three on the image itself). All depict scenes of rural life, most of them identifying Serajgunge in East Bengal. Images include..... More
[North Australia, Unknown Photographer, circa 1930s?]. The captions are: 'Circumcision Corroboree, N.A.'; 'Leading the Patient to the Circumcision Corroboree, N.A.'; 'Bathurst Id. Natives'; 'Burial Ceremony, N.A.'; 'Burial Corroboree, N.A.' (two different images); 'Burial Corroboree'; 'Burial, N.A.'; 'Natives Mourning, N.A.'; '... Ornaments of [Burial] Corroboree, N.A.' (caption partially illegible); 'Spear Throwing..... More
[South Australia, Unknown Photographer, late nineteenth century]. Not least of the fascinating details in this rare image is the paddle-wheeler visible offshore on the left-hand side. More
Sydney, 'Kerry Photo', [circa 1890s, but printed early in the twentieth century?]. Charles Henry Kerry (1857-1928) 'turned a small portrait studio into the colony's largest photographic organization. Kerry sold albums of high-quality pictures ... and sold prints to the public. In 1885 he was asked to prepare an exhibit of..... More
[South Australia? Unknown Photographer, circa 1870s?]. The group comprises seventeen men and a boy dressed in typical bush garb of the period (two of the men and the boy are Indigenous), and two white children (a lad on a horse, and a young girl, both a little less casually attired)..... More
The subject, photographer, location and date are unknown, but we suggest South or Central Australia in the 1920s. More
The photograph is positioned so that the finished product presents as a diamond shape; it is both unusual and effective. Both the mat and photograph are in fine condition. The details of the photographer, 'Chas P. Scott, Waymouth Street, Adelaide', are blindstamped in the bottom right-hand corner of the mat..... More
Unley, Chas P. Scott, [circa 1900s]. Charles Scott (1878-1928) is 'Listed as photographer at 21A Waymouth Street, Adelaide, in directories from 1909 to 1915+, his "private residence" being given as 10 Grace Street, Goodwood Park' (Photohistory SA website). The Art Gallery of SA gives the date '1903-04' for this image..... More
[Unley, Chas P. Scott, circa 1900s]. We purchased this item with a similar portrait of a young Indigenous boy (captioned 'Jacky - Oodnadatta'), blindstamped with the photographer's details ('Chas P. Scott | Unley S.A.'). The Art Gallery of SA dates that image '1903-04'. We have no hesitation in attributing this..... More
Charles Scott (1878-1928) is listed as a photographer at that address in South Australian directories 'from 1909 to 1915+' (Photohistory SA website). The Art Gallery of SA gives the date '1903-04' for this image in its collection, and we take this date to be when the original negative was exposed..... More
[Brisbane, Daniel Marquis, circa late 1860s]. Scottish-born photographer Daniel Marquis (1829-1879) emigrated to Brisbane in March 1865. By the end of that year he 'had rented studio and living space in George Street in Brisbane.... Daniel established a successful photographic business in the George Street studio. He made portraits that..... More
[Brisbane, Daniel Marquis, circa late 1860s]. Scottish-born photographer Daniel Marquis (1829-1879) emigrated to Brisbane in March 1865. By the end of that year he 'had rented studio and living space in George Street in Brisbane.... Daniel established a successful photographic business in the George Street studio. He made portraits that..... More
Neither the subject nor the photographer are identified (or known to us). The photograph may have been taken in South Australia, where it surfaced over 20 years ago; we suggest it dates from the 1890s. More
The original gelatin silver portrait photograph (visible image size 313 × 237 mm) is behind glass in the original polished wooden frame (external dimensions 525 × 450 mm). We have no details about the photographer, the child, or where and when the photograph was taken, but we suggest somewhere in..... More
Melbourne, The Literary Committee [of The Congress], 1889. One of the photographs ('Necrosis of Fingers and Toes') illustrates 'Diseases of Polynesians, as seen in Queensland' by F. BOWE (8 pages). The other five illustrate 'A New Procedure for the Cure of Congenital Talipes Varus and Equino-Varus' by T.N. FITZGERALD (6..... More
Sydney, Gecko, 2000/ 1984. Many of the photographs are by Reg Morrison. More
Scone, The Seven Press, 1991. Number 408 of only 500 copies signed by the author. Loosely inserted is a vintage gelatin silver photograph (155 × 205 mm) by Jackson, from his negative #133 (in reverse in the bottom left-hand corner of the print). The photograph is reproduced on page 61..... More
Maps of the four main islands of Japan and the Korean Peninsula are surrounded by borders of cherry blossom and bamboo, with scenes of Mt Fuji, a pagoda, and birds on the wing. Major cities are shown on the maps; Korea has Pyongyang, Seoul and Pusan, with '38° LINE' in..... More
General Sir Thomas Blamey, Commander-in-Chief, Allied Land Force, South West Pacific Area, accepted the surrender of Lieutenant General Fusataro Teshima, Commander of the 2nd Japanese Army at Moratai, at '1 Corps Sports Ground. Lt Gen Teshima was accompanied by Captain Toyima, who signed for the Japanese Navy' (Australian War Memorial)..... More
[Japan, Unknown Publisher, circa 1880s]. The images include views of villages, towns and shrines, with occasional mountain scenes (Mount Fuji makes a cameo appearance). Only one image is captioned in the negative ('Temple at [illegible]'). We have handled hand-coloured examples of albums of this nature, and we have to say..... More