1 Anon
[Building The Railway In The Blue Mountains], c1860s. Albumen
paper photograph, partial blind stamp "…fax" to
upper right corner, annotated in ink verso, 19.4 x 28.1cm. Slight
paper loss to upper left corner, minor stains to upper right
corner and crinkles overall.
Annotation
reads "Making Blue Hill [Blue Mountains] Railway."
$2,900
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2 Anon
Temperance Hall, Pitt Street, Sydney, 1870. Albumen paper photograph,
titled and dated in negative lower left, 27.6 x 23cm. Minor tears
to lower right corner.
The
temperance societies flourished in Australia after two Quakers,
James Backhouse and George Washington Walker, arrived in Hobart
in 1832, to persuade people to take the "pledge." To
encourage people to stay away from pubs, recreational facilities
were established, including coffee houses, temperance hotels,
debating clubs, reading rooms, youth organisations and festivals.
$2,200
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3 Anon
[Hyde Park, Sydney], c1880. Pair of albumen paper photographs,
each annotated in ink on backing below image, (a) 20.6 x 27.7cm,
(b) 21.4 x 27.7cm. Minor stains, chips to edges. Each laid down
on original album page, mounted together.
Pictures
depict Hyde Park, not Alfred Park as mentioned in the annotations
which read "'Sydney from the Alfred Park, looking south'
and 'Sydney from the Alfred Park, looking north.'"
The pair $2,200
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4 Anon
King Billy Camp, River Murray, c1890-1900. Printout paper photograph,
titled in ink in an unknown hand on backing to right of image,
15 x 20.1cm. Slight scuffs and retouching to image, minor chips
to edges. Tipped to original album page.
King
Billy was an Aboriginal man from the Nywaigi tribe of North Queensland.
European settlers gave English names with the title of "King"
to Aboriginal men they felt had power in their communities.
$2,900
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5 Charles Bayliss (Australian, 1850-1897)
[Watsons Bay, Sydney], c1874. Albumen paper photograph, 22.6
x 28cm. Minor tear to upper edge,slight cockling to left portion.
Unlike
most photographers of the period Suffolk-born Charles Bayliss
grew up in Australia. He received comprehensive training from
Beaufoy Merlin, founder of the American and Australasian Photographic
Company. Famous gold miner, merchant and parliamentarian Bernard
Otto Holtermann commissioned the company to pictorially document
New South Wales and Victoria in the 1870s to promote immigration
to Australia.
$1,650
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6 Charles Bayliss (Australian, 1850-1897)
[Slab Hut Overlooking Watsons Bay, Sydney], c1874. Albumen paper
photograph, numbered "270" in negative lower left,
22.1 x 28.6cm. Slight foxing and stains to upper portion, minor
creases to upper corners.
Illustrated
in Ennis, A Modern Vision: Charles Bayliss, Photographer,
1850-1897, NLA, 2008.
$2,900
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7 J.W. Beattie (Australian, 1859-1930)
Tree Felling, Gray Bros: Adventure Bay Sawmill, c1890-1900. Vintage
toned silver gelatin photograph, titled, numbered "128B"
and annotated "Beattie, Hobart" in negative lower left
to right, 37.6 x 30.1cm. Slight loss of emulsion to upper left
corner, minor fading, silvering and chips to edges.
$1,900
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8 J.W. Beattie (Australian, 1859-1930)
The Montezuma Falls, North Tasmania, Dundas Railway, c1890-1900.
Printout paper photograph, titled, numbered "1164A"
and annotated "Beattie-Hobart Copyright" in negative
lower left to right, 36.5 x 26.1cm. Discolouration to upper and
lower left corners, slight cockling to surface, missing portions
to corners.
John
Beattie wrote "I love the bush, and nothing gives me greater
delight than to stand on the top of some high land and look out
on a wild array of our grand mountains. I am struck dumb, but
oh! my soul sings." Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, John Watt
Beattie was introduced to photography by his father. The family
moved to Tasmania in 1878 and four years later Beattie began
working in the studio of the Anson brothers in Hobart. By 1891
he had bought out the brothers, acquiring photographs by them
and others which he was able to publish. He was elected a member
of the Royal Society of Tasmania in 1890 and formed the historical
and geographical section of the society in 1899. He was appointed
Tasmania's official photographer in 1896, and operated a successful
business in Hobart, eventually selling his collection in 1927
to the city of Launceston. (Ref: Art Gallery of New South Wales
website).
$1,900
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9 William Blackwood (Australian, 1824-1897)
Sydney University Hall, 1859. Albumen paper photograph, title,
text with date and photographer in letterpress on backing below
image, 21.2 x 28.6cm. Slight foxing and retouching. Laid down
on original printed presentation backing.
Text
reads "In commemoration of the Grand Festival at the opening
of the Sydney University, the 18th July, 1859. Photographed by
W. Blackwood, 16 Bridge St."
$3,300
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10 Richard Daintree (British/ Australian, 1832-1878)
Turpins Falls On The Campaspie River, Near Kyneton, c1850s. Albumen
paper photograph, 15.5 x 22.7cm.
Rich,
dark print, not commonly seen from this period. Richard Daintree,
a pioneering geologist, is considered to be one of the most important
photographers working in Australia in the 1850s and 1860s.
$4,400
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