New Lambton, The Digger's View Pty Ltd, 2014. ''The Digger's View: WW1 in Colour' offers an unprecedented view of Australia's military history - the way the soldiers saw themselves during the 1914-1918 period. Painstakingly brought to life in full colour, the images provide a unique perspective of war' (from the..... 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
Melbourne, Macmillan Art Publishing, 2014. Number 10 of only 24 copies of this 'special presentation' edition, bound and boxed thus, containing an original signed pencil drawing (figurative nudes, 210 × 154 mm), and an original signed photograph of Olsen drawing in his sketchbook (210 × 135 mm). They are tipped..... More
South Yarra, Macmillan Art Publishing, 2005 [presumed first edition, second printing] (printed in China, with the printed dedication 'For Tessa and Cassandra | & | Tim, Louise and Jane' and ISBN 1 876832 23 1). Number 7 of one of two series of 10 copies of the 'special presentation' issue..... More
Dr Julian Smith (1873-1947), surgeon and photographer, 'took up photography late in life, exhibiting locally and overseas, becoming an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, and gaining renown for his distinctive portraits' (National Portrait Gallery of Australia, dating the image 'c. 1937'). The National Gallery of Victoria also holds..... More
The first image shows 665 'Lord of the Isles', a Problem class (or Lady of the Lake class) passenger locomotive. Clearly visible on the wheel arch is its build date, 'Jany 1863'. The second image shows 2146, a DX Goods class locomotive. Both locomotives are shown in 'photographic grey' livery..... 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 photographer's credit and reference number ('Sweet | Adelaide | 90') is scratched in the negative. Captain Samuel White Sweet (1825-1886), was a 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..... More
The photograph is signed in ink in the top right-hand corner 'E.R. Mayne | Lords | April | 1921'. The 'Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket' states tha his 'upright style, pendulum-straight bat in defence and calm temperament marked him as a natural opening batsman'; this side view of him practising..... More
When compared with all other examples of portrait photographs of either explorer in the public domain, this matching pair - delicately hand-coloured and skilfully vignetted to the head and shoulders - has little if any competition. And significantly, they are fresh to the market ... However, when it came to..... More
San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1990 (first thus). More
Yardea Station is a pastoral lease approximately 400 kilometres north-west of Adelaide; it was the first property taken up in the Gawler Ranges, in the late 1850s. 'Lying on one of the main east-west corridors through the Ranges, Yardea became the main postal depot during the late 1860s. A stone..... More
[Melbourne], Australian Post Office, 1972. The photographs show the official centenary celebrations at Alice Springs on 22 August 1972 (46 photographs, including the reopening of the restored Old Telegraph Station), and in Adelaide on 21 and 22 August (5 photographs). Dignitaries present include Sir Alan Hulme (Postmaster General), Sir Arthur..... More
Adelaide, Dimond Studio, Rundle St. 1899. Football matches between clubs and state teams from South Australia and Victoria were a regular event from 1879 and 1894, 'but in 1894 the concept of representative intercolonial football was once more called into question as the Vics registered an all time record win..... More
The inkstamp of the London photographer, Chard Jenkins, is on the verso. The photograph probably dates from the 1962-63 Australian tour of England. The signature and inscription ('Best wishes') were obtained at a later date. They are written very clearly in ink on the surface of the photograph. In this..... 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
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 inkstamp of the London photographer, Chard Jenkins, is on the verso. The photograph probably dates from the 1962-63 Australian tour of England. The signature and inscription ('Best wishes') were obtained at a later date. They are written very clearly in ink on the surface of the photograph. Richie Benaud..... More
The photographs are displayed in three rows of three: the captions from left to right, top to bottom are 'The Derby Winner - "Mountain King"'; 'View on the Flat'; 'Poseidon'; 'The Finish'; 'Returning to the scales'; 'The Lawn'; 'Saddling up'; '"Apologue" - Winner'; and 'Leaving the Bird Cage'. Jockey William..... More
Wendover, 'Photo by Panora Ltd., 60 Doughty St. W.C.', March 1918. The Australian War Memorial has the following caption on an example of this impressive group photograph in its collection: 'Wendover, Buckinghamshire, England, 1918-03-11. Large group portrait of officers, cadets, NCOs and men of the Australian Flying Corps (AFC), together..... More
Flinders Ranges, South Australia, [circa 1937]. The State Library of South Australia holds the original negative (PRG 1218/34/675G) in its Mountford-Sheard Collection, with the date given as 'Approximately 1937'. 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
[Melbourne?], Oxford Studios, [1920]. The Melbourne 'Argus' (Wednesday 24 March 1920) contains an account of the visit. The final paragraph notes that 'In the City Hall tonight the mayor (Alderman H. Hitchcock) gave a dinner in honour of the General. There were present as guests 150 returned AIF officers who..... More
[Melbourne], H.M. Walker [Photographer], [circa 1930s]. Apart from the photographer's credit in the negative, there are no details about the place or date, but we have handled similar Walker panoramas taken at Victorian training camps in the 1930s. More