1914-1919/1983. Consisting of two softcover booklets and 26 vintage silver gelatin photographs, postcard format, some postcards signed “Otto Mönkedieck, Steuerman, SMS Emdem”, captioned or dated in image, some annotated in ink or pencil below image or verso, 8 x 11.7cm to 25.5 x 18.1cm. Minor creases or discolouration to some..... More
c1914–1916. Cloth-bound album containing 60 printout paper and three silver gelatin photographs; eight hand-written pages recording events during the voyage; and 18 annotated news clippings, most photographs annotated in ink, 23.5 x 28 x 2.5cm (album). Slight foxing to some photographs, foxing, old creases and tears to diary pages, wear..... More
1914–1917. Forty-five (45) vintage silver gelatin photographs, each annotated with date and ship name in pencil with photographer’s stamp verso, 10.8 x 15.6cm (approx. each). Minor creases, chips to edges, slight foxing. Stamp includes “J.E. Barnes, Press & Outdoor Photographer. Kew, Melb. Copyright.” Known as “the embarkation photographer”, Josiah Barnes..... More
c1915–1917. Leather-bound album containing 355 printout paper and silver gelatin photographs, a certificate and a printed programme, most items annotated in ink and some dated, 26 x 37 x 10cm (album). Split binding between front cover and intact spine, some scuffs to cover. This album, which provides a detailed visual..... More
1916–1917. Thirteen (13) vintage silver gelatin photographs, 12 in postcard format, two captioned and one dated in negative, three inscribed and one dated from “Rouen 18.6.16” in different hands in ink and pencil verso, 8.7 x 13.7cm (approx. each). Slight silvering, scuffing , foxing. Captions read “The canteen, no. 2..... More
c1915–1918. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, 11.3 x 20.8cm. Trimmed top margin, old creases with some cracking and minor surface loss, wear to margins. Image depicts Red Cross volunteers and table covered with various Nestle products and signage, including “Nestle’s Milk Food is palatable and nutritious…for soldiers, invalids, mothers and babies…Purchase..... More
![The Great White Fleet Visit To Australia [US Navy] Collection](/pictures/thumb/CL194-102_10a.jpg?v=1543548290)
1908. Sixty-three (63) items comprising of 40 vintage silver gelatin photographs in stereo card format; 16 postcards; two framed paintings; one framed lithograph; two commemorative booklets; and two pieces of lithographic ephemera, one painting signed “B. Barker”, several items captioned with ship names and dated “August 1908”, sizes include 4.6..... More
![Menin Road [Ypres]. Frank Hurley, Aust](/pictures/thumb/CL172-90.JPG?v=1492650084)
1917. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, annotated “E1237” in an unknown hand in negative upper right corner and in pencil verso, 15.8 x 11.6cm. Slight stains to image, glue and paper remnants verso. Titled in ink on accompanying original album page. Illustrated in O’Keefe, Hurley at War: The Photography and Diaries..... More
c1917. Vintage toned silver gelatin photograph, exhibition print, titled and annotated “E1204” in an unknown hand in pencil verso, 18.1 x 37.2cm. Slight paper loss to image lower left, crinkles to edges, minor foxing. Image depicts soldiers with wounded, clustered around an old ruin in a field. Provenance: By descent..... More
![Looking Through A Ruined Cathedral Window Onto A Battlefield Cemetery]. Frank Hurley, Aust](/pictures/thumb/CL172-94.JPG?v=1492650086)
1917. Vintage toned silver gelatin photograph, exhibition print, annotated “Cemetery of Vlamertinge” in an unknown hand in pencil verso, 20.2 x 15.4cm. Minor repair and stain to upper centre of image, slight creases overall. Illustrated in Ennis, Man with a Camera: Frank Hurley Overseas, 2002, p41, and Millar, From Snowdrift..... More
![Lt. Wilkins Looking Through A Ruined Cathedral Window, Ypres]. Frank Hurley, Aust](/pictures/thumb/CL172-95.JPG?v=1492650086)
1917. Vintage toned silver gelatin photograph, exhibition print, 29 x 37.8cm. Creases and repaired tears to edges of image and margins, slight foxing and crinkles overall. Held in the Australian War Memorial collection, with date “3 October 1917” and the note “Lieutenant George Hubert Wilkins, an Australian official photographer, looking..... More
![Infantrymen Of The 1st Division During A Rest In The Dugouts At Ypres]. Frank Hurley, Aust](/pictures/thumb/CL172-96.JPG?v=1492650087)
1917. Vintage brown-toned carbon print, 40.5 x 51cm. In original frame. Illustrated with caption in Ennis, Man with a Camera: Frank Hurley Overseas, 2002, p36 and in O’Keefe, Hurley at War: The Photography and Diaries of Frank Hurley in Two World Wars, 1986, p39, with the caption “In Ypres the..... More
![Sportsman’s Recruiting Day, Queanbeyan [NSW]. George Samuel Percival, 1889–1962 Aust](/pictures/thumb/CL203-28_1.jpg?v=1633911471)
1917. Pair of vintage silver gelatin photographs, postcard format, one captioned and dated “15.8.17” in negative lower centre and photographer’s stamp verso, 8.7 x 13.7cm (approx. each). Slight scuff upper left, pinhole lower right. Stamp reads “Photo by [obscured] Percival, Queanbeyan.” Text on the float at the left edge of..... More
1918. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, 24.5 x 18.2cm. Minor stains to centre left and lower right of image, slight scuffs and crinkles overall. Title appears in a presentation album held at the State Library of NSW. Image held in the Australian War Memorial collection, with the note “Two unidentified soldiers..... More
![Action At Zonnebeke, Belgium]. Frank Hurley, Aust](/pictures/thumb/CL172-97.JPG?v=1492650087)
1917/c1920s. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, composite image, annotated “E5988” in an unknown hand in pencil with stamp verso, 13.8 x 19.1cm. Minor foxing overall. Stamp includes “Australian official photo no. Purchased from Australian War Museum, Wool Exchange, King St, Melb.” Illustrated in O’Keefe, Hurley at War: The Photography and Diaries..... More
c1920. Forty-eight (48) vintage silver gelatin photographs in a Kodak album-book, annotated “E.J. Pini, 31 Stead Street, South Melbourne” and dated “21.2.20” in ink on inside cover, most images captioned in ink on album page, 7.7 x 10.3cm (approx. each). Minor stains, developing flaws or silvering to some images, minor..... More
c1920. Silver gelatin photograph, 11 x 15.5cm. Image shows three men standing in front of the store. Store sign includes “H.R. Vallis, manager, late A.I.F.” Vallis’ son, Henry Raymond, 2nd Australian Field Artillery Brigade, left Sydney on the HMAT Aeneas on 30 September 1916. He was listed as “Acting Bombardier”..... More
![Anzac Cove Gallipoli, Turkey [Looking North To New Zealand Point]. Walter Ernest Dexter, Brit./Aust](/pictures/thumb/CL181-121.JPG?v=1486012324)
1915/1925. Hand-coloured silver gelatin photograph, signed “Colarts [Studio, Sydney]” in ink on image lower right, 72.5 x 99cm. Original oak frame. Rare large format. Colarts Studios acquired the negative of this image taken by Padre Walter E. Dexter, and subsequently included it in their touring exhibition around Australia during the..... More
![RAAF Pilots And Their Planes]. Max Dupain, Aust](/pictures/thumb/CL185-97.JPG?v=1486013175)
1943. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, signed and dated in pencil on image lower right, 30.8 x 32.4cm. Pinholes to lower left corner. More
1986/1995. Silver gelatin photograph, signed in pencil on image lower right, titled, dated and signed in pencil verso, 39.4 x 29.2cm. This image was published in SMH, October 1986. More