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Group of [women] Old Colonists [mosaic] [B 19985] • Photograph

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Summary

Photographic mosaic (composite)arranged by Adelaide photographer Henry Jones bearing the inscription 'Group of Old Colonists'. The majority of the women depicted arrived in South Australia, or were born there, between 1836 and 1840. In May 1872 Jones placed advertisements in the Adelaide press inviting 'lady old colonists' to attend his studio to have their portraits taken for 'a companion group' to the mosaic he has creating of men who attended the Old Colonists Banquet at the Adelaide Town Hall on 28 December 1871 (see B 47769). Women had been excluded from the banquet by its host Emanuel Solomon. Jones began photographing women in June 1872 and was still taking photographs for the mosaic in 1881, the year that the work was completed. The mosaic was later owned by pastoralist Thomas Bowman who donated it to the Public Library of South Australia in 1909. The mosaic contains 598 portraits arranged in roughly alphabetical order.

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Physical description

Photograph (composite); 127 cm x 94 cm (work), 131 cm x 98.5 cm x 5.5 cm (framed work)

Dates / Publication details

1872-1881

Photographer

Jones, Henry

Collections

Part of South Australia’s Old Colonists and Settlers Photographic Mosaics Collection
Part of Portrait Collection
Part of Photographic Mosaic Collection

Subject

Women pioneers -- South Australia
Pioneers -- South Australia

Catalogue record

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General notes

B 19985/2 'Photo copy Ernest Gall 1910', 37cm x 27cm, with mock woodgrain mount with dimensions 53cm x 40cm.

Also known as Source 49. The original index to this collection consisted only of surnames, many of which were misspelled. That index has been rendered obsolete by the creation of individual catalogue records in 2017.

Historical information

Henry Jones was born in Bristol, England in 1826. He arrived in Victoria in the late 1850s and in 1859 was listed as a daguerrean and photographic artist in Melbourne. Jones came to South Australia in 1866 and worked as an operator at Townsend Duryea's Adelaide photographic studio. By September 1868 he had his own studio in King William Street, opposite the Adelaide Town Hall. The business was known as the Children's Photographic Company from 1876. The studio moved premises within the city on several occasions until 1885, the last year that Jones is listed as a photographer in Sands & McDougall's South Australian Directory. Jones died in 1911 and was buried in the West Terrace cemetery.

Digitisation information

Date

15/10/2013

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

13,675 x 17,622 pixels (241.0 MP)

Size

722.97 MB

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