Lighthouses of Australia. Images from the End of an Era
Surrey Hills, Australian Lighthouse Traders, 2001. More
Photography
A large collection of Edwardian snapshots of travels in India, China and Central Asia
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
A group of eleven vintage gelatin silver photographs (circa 1920s) mounted individually on commercial blind-embossed cards; the photographer is not identified
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
A series of twelve photographs depicting aspects of Indigenous life (and death) in North Australia
[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
A vintage photograph of a beach encampment, possibly in the Lower Murray lakes region
[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
'Aboriginal Girl Carrying Water' [a studio tableau portrait photograph of an Indigenous woman wearing a fur 'apron' with a container on her right shoulder]
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
A vintage photograph of a group of men and a few children (including three Indigenous males) in a bush setting
[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
A vintage photograph of an Aboriginal stockman
The subject, photographer, location and date are unknown, but we suggest South or Central Australia in the 1920s. More
An imposing portrait photograph of a young Aboriginal woman smoking a pipe
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
'Jacky - Oodnadatta - Copyright' (a charming vintage photograph of a young Indigenous boy wearing a large cloth hat and an even bigger grin)
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
'Mary - Hergott Springs' (a vintage photograph of a young Indigenous woman wearing a headscarf)
[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
'Oodnadatta Jacky - South Australian Native'. A charming vintage portrait photograph of a young Aboriginal boy wearing a large cloth hat and an even bigger grin
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
A fine portrait of an Indigenous Australian woman wearing a plain head-scarf knotted under her chin
Neither the subject nor the photographer are identified (or known to us). The photograph may have been taken in South Australia, where it surfaced about 20 years ago; we suggest it dates from the 1890s. More
A very unusual large-format vintage photograph of a young Indigenous Australian child who is not happy, to say the least
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
Arts of the Dreaming. Australia's Living Heritage
Sydney, Gecko, 2000/ 1984. Many of the photographs are by Reg Morrison. More
Sidney William Jackson. Bush Photographer, 1873 to 1946. Compiled and edited by Judy White
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
A large photograph album (275 × 390 mm) of Japanese origin and Korean War vintage, with the lacquered front cover extensively hand-decorated in colour
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
Two original photographs of the Surrender Ceremony of the Japanese 2nd Army at Morotai, Halmahera Islands, Netherlands East Indies, on 9 September 1945
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
An album containing 24 albumen paper photographs of Japan
The photographs (each approximately 90 x 140 mm) are mounted on both sides of leaves bound concertina-style in patterned cloth-covered thick bevel-edged boards (120 x 180 mm). The images, undated but probably 1890s, include views of villages, towns and shrines, with occasional mountain scenes (Mount Fuji makes a cameo appearance)..... More
Two vintage photographs of Japanese soldiers in the field, in uniforms of the Russo-Japanese War period (1904-05)
One photograph features columns of soldiers marching with packs and rifles (with fixed bayonets) over a suspension bridge and along a riverside path in a rural area, watched over by a local family standing at the top of a nearby cutting. The second photograph depicts (presumably) the same troops in..... More
A collection of 89 late nineteenth-century hand-coloured albumen paper photographs of Japan is offered as one lot
The material ranges from standard fare (iconic structures, picturesque landscapes, exotic costumes) to most interesting and unusual street-level documentary images. These large-format prints (84 are approximately 205 × 270 mm each, three are a little larger, and two are panoramas measuring 120 × 300 mm) have never been mounted, and..... More
'Views of Java... SS "Minderoo" - SS "Charon" - SS "Gorgon". West Australian Ports to Java and Singapore. Dalgety & Co. Ltd., Agents'
A very large advertisement on thick card, recently mounted and matted (visible image size 508 × 778 mm); laid down on the card are six original gelatin silver photographs (all sepia-toned, each one approximately 165 × 230 mm). The photographs are in two rows of three, with captions underneath. The..... More
Customs and Faces. Photographs by Sir Benjamin Stone 1838-1914
London, Academy Editions, 1972. More
Footsteps on the Shore
No Place, The Artist, 2010. Dutch ceramicist and photographer. More
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Nature's Masterpiece. Jenolan Caves NSW [cover title]
Willoughby, 'Photographed, Printed and Published by H. Phillips', [1910s]. More