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The Old Colonists Banquet Group [mosaic] [B 7677/8U] • Photograph

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Summary

A photographic copy of a mosaic of photographic portraits created by Adelaide photographer Henry Jones to commemorate an Old Colonists' Banquet organised by merchant Emanuel Solomon at the Adelaide Town Hall on 28 December 1871. The original mosaic is held by the State Library of South Australia at B 47769. B 7677 contains 507 men's portraits, eight less than B 47769. Several identical copies of B 7677 exist, suggesting that it was produced for sale. It was donated to the Public Library of South Australia by photographer Ernest Gall in 1938.

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Physical description

Photograph (B&W print); 76 x 51 cm

Dates / Publication details

1873

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

Pioneers -- South Australia

Catalogue record

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General notes

This mosaic is a near duplicate of B 47769. For consistency, the portraits on this mosaic have been given the same coordinates as their counterparts on B 47769. As this mosaic has less portraits, there are gaps in the numbering. The original mosaic, of which this is a copy, was begun in 1872 and initially completed in 1873. Some portraits were added later, with dates from the 1880s, 1890s and very early 1900s.

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

09/08/2005

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

2,249 x 2,908 pixels (6.5 MP)

Size

6.57 MB

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