A cabinet card portrait photograph of an unknown Australian officer in South Africa
Inscribed on the verso 'To dear Mother, with the Original's love'. More
Inscribed on the verso 'To dear Mother, with the Original's love'. More
[Cape Town, possibly J.H. Robinson & Co.], circa 1900. The photograph, featuring mainly artillery shells of various sizes (some of them identified), small arms ammunition, and shrapnel (one piece marked '66 Battery'), is signed in the negative 'B.W. Canby'. To say the image is incongruous in a souvenir greeting card..... More
[Melbourne], R. McGeehan, 96 Albert St., Windsor, [circa 1899]. The second figure from the right in the front row is wearing a slouch hat with a distinctive hatband, and the brim turned up on the right side. We have discovered the same man in one of Rose's Stereoscopic Views, #2242..... More
The stamp of 'J. Gazard, 111 King Wm. St., Adelaide' is on the verso of one image, together with a pencilled caption reading 'The National Memorial to the SA troops who fought in South African War. Unveiled by the Governor of SA at Adelaide June 6, 1904'. One image shows..... More
Samuel Albert White (1870-1954) is well-known as an ornithologist and conservationist, but 'During the South African War he had two tours of duty and was temporarily promoted captain, a title he used thereafter' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). There are five studio portraits and one taken outdoors, with White astride a...... More
New York, Underwood & Underwood, Publishers, 1900 and 1901. Three of the photographs show activities in the field. Another card has specific Australian content: 'Skirmish Drill, New South Wales Mounted Rifles, Cape Town'. Offered together with two similar stereographs published by M.E. Wright, Excelsior Stereoscopic Tours, Burnley, England. The captions..... More