Cross Country Race
1968. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, titled, signed and dated in pencil verso, 38.6 x 30.3cm. Tears and chips to edges, creases overall. One of the competitors is wearing a Gosford athletic club patch. More
1968. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, titled, signed and dated in pencil verso, 38.6 x 30.3cm. Tears and chips to edges, creases overall. One of the competitors is wearing a Gosford athletic club patch. More
c1958-1972. Group of seven vintage silver gelatin photographs, with Betty Cuthbert’s autograph in ink on accompanying slip, most with captions and various publishing annotations and stamps including dates or affixed slips or labels verso, 29 x 21.3cm (approx. each). Stains, tears, missing portions to edges, slight crinkles, dents, one image..... More
1974. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, publishing annotations in crayon and ink on image and verso, 20.6 x 25.4cm. Slight crinkles, creases to edges. Annotations include “Pollard’s Soccer Records, page 24.” Jack Pollard’s Soccer Records was compiled by Sid Grant and published in 1974. Ref: The Guardian; Oz Football. More
1971/1974. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, signed, titled, dated and annotated “3046” in pencil verso, 22.6 x 33.6cm. Minor creases and foxing to margins. More
1976. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, titled, dated and signed by photographer’s wife Kerry Oldfield Ellis in ink in authentication stamp verso, 15.2 x 21cm. Slight stains to margins. Illustrated in Ellis, Decade: 1970–1980, SLV, p188. The thoroughbred racehorse Van der Hum won the 1976 Melbourne Cup, ridden by New Zealand..... More
c1910s and 1980s. Eleven (11) silver gelatin photographs (two vintage, and nine reprints) with two menus from “The Les Darcy Restaurant” [Maitland, NSW], and a booklet titled The Darcy Story. The vintage photograph is autographed by Darcy in ink lower right, and all re-prints are stamped, some captioned in ink..... More
1962, 1981. Pair of vintage silver gelatin photographs, one with Dawn Fraser’s autograph with “S.A. 1957” in pencil on accompanying slip, with various dates and publishing annotations and stamps including typed label with caption verso, the other photograph is stamped “14 May 1981” verso, 24.2 x 19.2cm, 23.9 x 18.9cm..... More
1988/later printing. Silver gelatin photograph, signed and dated in pencil verso, 27.7 x 41.7cm. Held in NLA. “Fred Brophy is an Australian tent boxing promoter who regularly tours around Queensland with the eponymous Fred Brophy’s Boxing Troupe.” Ref: Wiki. More
1991. Vintage silver gelatin photograph with hand-colouring, annotated ‘Mal’ and signed in pencil on mount below image, captioned “‘Mal’ Meninga, Rugby League, signed, dated and annotated “hand coloured” in pencil on backing verso, 31 x 24.7cm. Laid down on board. This photograph is accompanied with a magazine tear sheet of..... More
1968/2009. Silver gelatin photograph, signed in pencil in lower margin, titled and dated verso, 40.6 x 35.3cm. Illustrated in Bishop, In dreams: thirty years of photography 1960–1990, p32. “Boxer Lionel Rose was the first Indigenous Australian to win a world title in boxing, and later the first Indigenous Australian to..... More
2000/2017. Silver gelatin photograph, numbered “16”, signed, titled and dated in pencil verso, 18.9 x 28.3cm. “The aim of ‘Our City, Our Games’ was to observe and record Sydney’s transformation to an Olympic City. My proposal to document the city and its people during the brief period of intense world..... More
c1870s-1890s. Group of seven items comprising four albumen paper photographs, a hand-coloured tintype, a wood engraving and letterpress card, and a colour digital photograph, most captioned in various hands in ink or pencil verso, two with photographer’s line or stamp on backing, sizes from 6.3 x 4.5cm to 10.2 x...... More
c1908. (1) Burns–Johnson Contest , 1908. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, title, date and photographer’s line in negative centre right, 30 x 38cm. Surface loss, crazing, scuffs, soiling. Framed. . Text includes “Sydney, Dec. 1908. 12. Kerry Copyright.” See item 104. (2) [Jack Johnson In The Ring] , c1908. Vintage silver..... More
1908. Ten vintage silver gelatin photographs, postcard format, each captioned with studio line in negative lower portion, sizes range from 13.4 x 8.6cm to 14 x 8.9cm. Slight creases and scuffing overall. This group includes six postcards of Johnson, and four postcards of Burns, three by photographer Charles Kerry. On..... More
1908. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, panorama format, captioned with photographer and date in negative lower right, mounted with colour facsimile of admission ticket to the match, 37.1 x 94.4cm. Minor foxing overall. Original frame. Caption continues “14 rounds, won by Johnson on points. Stadium, Sydney, Dec. 26th, 1908. Purse £7,500..... More
c1936. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, titled and signed in pencil in lower margin, 20.2 x 22.4cm. Provenance: Mallard estate. More
c1936. Collection of 42 vintage silver gelatin photographs with accompanying original illustrated album cover, mounted together with Paul Mallard’s sports carnival results card. The cover, entitled Kosciusko Souvenir Photographic Album is inscribed to son Paul Mallard by various hands in ink upper left and verso. The sizes range from 7.8..... More
c1940s. Three vintage silver gelatin photographs, one image with title in negative lower centre and typed “Associated Press” label with date “27.11.46” verso, another image captioned in pencil with “The Argus” stamp date “7 Dec. 1948” verso, sizes range from 14.9 x 10.3cm to 20.5 x 15.6cm. Minor silvering, creases..... More
1976. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, annotated and dated “’76” in ink on backing verso, 30 x 37.9cm. Pinholes, slight stains to image upper left and centre, scuffing and minor silvering. Laid down on old board. Image shows brothers Ian Chappell and Greg Chappell, Doug Walters and Rick McCosker. Annotation includes..... More