State Library of South Australia

Sweet Collection folders, volume 6 [B 72483/6/10] • Photograph

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Summary

King William Street looking north from the corner of Pirie Street. Image shows telegraph poles with rows of insulators on the left and a gas lamp in the foreground. This photograph is taken at the same time but is not identical to B 72115/10

Restrictions

This image depicts Australian Aboriginal people or aspects of their culture.

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Physical description

Photograph (sepia print); various sizes

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1885

Photographer

Sweet, Samuel White

Collection

Part of Sweet Collection

Subject

Photography -- South Australia -- History 19th century
South Australia -- Description and travel 1851-1900

Catalogue record

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Local notes

Contains Aboriginal content

Historical information

Captain Samuel White Sweet (1825-1886) was sea captain, surveyor and photographer. In January 1869 Sweet took command of the two-masted schooner Gulnare, making several supply trips between Adelaide and Darwin. In September he photographed the official party at the planting of the first pole of the overland telegraph; he also took pictures of the township, the men at work and forest scenery. In November he sailed to the Roper River and took part in the survey there. When he retired from the sea he opened a photographic studio in Adelaide and concentrated on landscapes. With his horse-drawn dark room he travelled through South Australia taking hundreds of pictures of the outback, stations and homesteads. He was the colony's foremost documentary photographer of the 1870s and early 1880s.

Digitisation information

Date

29/03/2012

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

4,955 x 3,800 pixels (18.8 MP)

Size

56.51 MB

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