The portrait is interesting by any measure. Fanny is wearing an ankle-length skirt, blouse, and a sun hat held in place with a large spotted scarf knotted under her chin. She is standing in what appears to be a traditional South Australian back yard (the high corrugated-iron fence is a...... 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
The party consisted of Missionaries Johann Goessling and Ernst Homann, and two lay-helpers, Hermann Vogelsang and Johann Jacob. They set out from Langmeil [Tanunda] church on Tuesday 9 October 1866 with two large covered wagons and seven horses. This image, along with the full details of the epic journey and..... More
Adelaide, Adelaide Camera Club, 1948. The exhibition of work by the Adelaide photographer Eric Robertson (1889-1955) ran from 17-27 February 1948. Offered together with an album (approximately 190 × 235 mm) containing related photographs: a large portrait of Robinson, 14 interesting snapshots of scenes at the exhibition, six examples of..... More
This experimental image (102 × 76 mm) is mounted on plain card (121 × 190 mm); both are in fine condition. The card is warmly inscribed (we believe to Becquerel himself) by its maker, one Julius Hartmann of Michelstadt, Hesse. He refers to it as a 'Radiographie'. On the verso..... More
HRH the Prince of Wales spent a week in Adelaide in mid-July 1920, during a three-month visit to Australia. The photograph shows him standing in front of Parliament House, Adelaide. He has inscribed the bottom corner 'Sincerely Yours | Edward P.' George Lionel Marchant (1882-1958) ran a successful studio in..... More
The photographs (cartes de visite and cabinet cards) depict Annie Griffith Roberts, her first husband Dr James Hawkins, her second husband, Dr Edward Bruce Robertson, and Oriana, one of the children of the second marriage. The Robertsons came to Australia in 1887; Oriana married into the Moodie family of 'Wando..... More
