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Photographs — Printed & Written Material - Mossgreen Auctions (No longer trading)
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| Number of lots recorded: | 96 |
| Lots with images: | 96 |
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Photographs
| Lot | Description | Price | Image |
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| *** | J. W. Lindt (1845-1926) & H.King (1855-1923) - An album of albumen photographs, An album containing 49 Lindt albumen photographs of Melbourne street scenes and buildings including several infrequently seen images (Little Collins St, William St, The… | *** |  |
| *** | Northern Territory: An album of 48 albumen photographs, circa 1880s, titled in pencil below the image, subjects include Abraham's Billabong, Ironstone Camp Birdum Creek, Daly Waters Telegraph Station, Typical Chinese Hut, N. T., Daly Waters Telegraph… | *** |  |
| *** | Fred Kruger (1831-1888), Victoria, An album containing 60 albumen photographs with subjects including: Yarra Street Wharf Corio Bay, Geelong, Victorian Aboriginals and War Implements, Victorian Aboriginals and Canoe, New Lighthouse and Quarters, Dromana,… | *** |  |
| *** | Charles Bristow Walker (1835-1901) Photographs of Melbourne & Suburbs, [c.1897]. Each photograph is titled in pencil. 30 photographic prints mounted in an album with gold lettered title on front cover. The British photographer Charles Bristow Walker… | *** |  |
| *** | John Noone (working 1858-1888), A folio of 15 albumen prints including views of Melbourne from the tower of 'Rostella', Fitzroy Gardens, the Government Printing Works, Williams Street and Little Lonsdale Street, The Observatory, The Post Office, Treasury… | *** |  |
| *** | An impressive album of photographs assembled for H.J.Younger in 1890. Titled 'Vol.1. Melbourne & the Surrounding Country' with 87 images of Melbourne, Fernshaw, Geelong, Bendigo, Ballarat, Sandhurst, Aborigines and several of Malta. 87 photographs, a… | *** |  |
| *** | Views of Victoria and the Fijis, An album of 105 photographs including photographs Nicholas Caire, Fred Kruger, depicting scenes of Victoria, Geelong, Queenscliff, Bendigo, NSW, Blue Mountains, NZ, Fiji, Tonga and Samoa, 14 x 20 cm each approx. | *** |  |
| *** | New Zealand and Australia, An album containing approx. 180 photographs in varying sizes, of particular note are five Maori portraits by Arthur James Iles [1870 - 1943], each 20 x 13.5 cm (approx.). Other New Zealand photographs include R.B. Graham, Muir &… | *** |  |
| *** | Batchelder and O'Neill photographers: Carte-de-VIsite photograph depicting William Landsborough and two Aboriginal trackers, Jemmy and Jack Fisherman. circa 1862. Landsborough led a search for Burke and Wills after their disappearance.10 x 6.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Samuel Clifford (1827-1890), Tasmanian Scenes, An album of 48 photographs each with hand written inscriptions, 10.5 cm x 15 cm each approx | *** |  |
| *** | Charles Henry Kerry (1857-1928), Charles Kerry Photographs of Norfolk Island and Fiji, 52 albumen prints circa 1890 affixed in later album, subjects include The Old Jail Kingston(e), Cricket Ground, Norfolk Island, Bloody Bridge, Norfolk Island, Cutting… | *** |  |
| *** | Album - Samoa, Fiji, Tonga and New Zealand, 50 photographs by John Davis, C. Pulman, James Valentine and others. Various sizes. | *** |  |
| *** | Lifesavers Bondi, Max Dupain, signed and dated Max Dupain 1980 lower right 31 x 39 cm | *** |  |
| *** | G P Wright - 'Brisbane Illustrated' Brisbane Principal Buildings and Country Homestead, also Northern Territory. Albumen paper prints laid down on boards., 15 loose photos, each 20.5 x 26.5 cm average, The photographer George Parkinson Wright was active… | *** |  |
| *** | 'meat Queue', black and white photograph Max Dupain signed verso 37 x 50 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Waratahs and the Moon, Max Dupain, signed and dated Max Dupain and dated 86 lower right 42 x 39 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A collection of six photographs depicting Aboriginal family groups and portraits, including images from Northern Australia, Murray River, Port Augusta and Inniminka, 19 x 15 cm (average size) | *** |  |
| *** | Thomas Foster Chuck (Circa 1826-1898) photographer: Blue bound album with 60 photographs of Regional Victoria, Government House and Botanical Gardens, Maryborough, Warrnambool, Queenscliff, etc. Annotated in pencil below each image. Mainly 14 x 19 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | John Paine (1834-1915), Large black leather-bound presentation album with gold embossed decorations. Contains a collection of Sydney and New South Wales images, circa 1890. 88 photographs, mostly titled in the image or in mss below, and mainly 14.5 x 20.5… | *** |  |
| *** | Australiana: interesting collection including rare real photographs, country towns, post offices, Tasmania, Korumburra, north Queensland etc. Well worth close inspection, over 450 cards | *** |  |
| *** | Charles Henry Kerry (1857-1928), Charles Kerry Photographs of Tonga, Treasury Island, Fiji, Samoa, New Caledonia & Tokelau, 40 albumen prints circa 1890 affixed in later album, subjects include Nukulofa Tonga, Girl's School, Mua, Tonga, Mafinga, Tonga… | *** |  |
| *** | 'Bondi', black and white photograph Max Dupain 30 x 43 cm Daughters authentication label to verso | *** |  |
| *** | Collection of albumen prints of the Methodist Mission at Kiriwina, Trobriand Islands, circa 1905, many with captions offering a fascinating ethnographic insight to island life and culture with images of warriors, albino child, mission school, native life,… | *** |  |
| *** | Charles Bayliss (1850-1897) photographer: Albumen prints of Melbourne (with several of maritime and shipping interest), Sydney, Geelong and a few foreign. 85 photographs, various sizes, smallest 11 x 16 cm to largest 22 x 27 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | Scrapbook: containing a collection of albumen prints of Sydney, Tasmania and New Zealand, 60 imagess including 4 Maori subjects, photographers include Paine, Bayliss and Josiah Martin. Mainly 20 x 15 cm some larger, largest being 28.5 x 25 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | Edmund Wheeler & Son, New Zealand photographers, Circa 1880's, Album titled 'New Zealand Scenery' with 10 albumen prints comprising images of Lyttelton, Sumner and Christchurch. 18 x 23 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | Photographer Unknown, but many images probably by Daniel Mundy or his brother, William Mundy. The handstamp 'Australasian Series by D.L. Mundy, F.R.G.S. Lanscape Photographer & Publisher.....Melbourne & Sydney.' appearing on the back of about half the… | *** |  |
| *** | A rare silver gelatin print captioned in photograph 'Hugh. McKay Sunshine Harvester For America Complete Train Load. 300 tons. July 1903'. Note this photograph was taken at Ballarat. 37 x 26 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A collection of nineteen photographic and lithographic images by Alphonse Chargois, G W Cole, Purnall and others, of Australian Aborigines depicting hunting, in family groups and ceremonies, 10 x 14.5 cm (average) | *** |  |
| *** | A collection ten photograph and lithographic images, depicting Australian Aboriginies and Indeigenous life, including Family Mia Mia, Native Encampment River Murray, Camp of Young Lubra, Kangaroo Hunting, King John's Mia Mia, Lubra and Pegeanini, Native… | *** |  |
| *** | A collection of eighteen photographic and lithographic images of Australian Aborigines depicting hunting, in family groups and ceremonies, 14 x 20 cm (average each) | *** |  |
| *** | Charles Henry Kerry (1857-1928), Charles Kerry Photographs of Samoa, Tonga, 52 albumen prints circa 1900 affixed in later album, subjects include Working a 4 in. Naval Gun, Malietoe Natives Drilling, Making Tappa Cloth, Lieutenant Gaunt's Squad, Street… | *** |  |
| *** | New Zealand: Leather-bound album containing a collection of albumen prints by Frank A. Coxhead, Burton Brothers, Wheeler & Son, James Valentine and others. Includes Dunedin scenes, Christchurch, Invercargill, Queenstown,Milford Sound, Auckland, Momona Bay… | *** |  |
| *** | Photographer Unknown, but many images probably by Daniel Mundy or his brother, William Mundy. The handstamp 'Australasian Series by D.L. Mundy, F.R.G.S. Lanscape Photographer & Publisher.....Melbourne & Sydney.' appearing on the back of about half the… | *** |  |
| *** | Herbert George Ponting (1870-1935) Birth of an Iceberg titled and numbered '24' on the on the Fine Art Society label on the reverse carbon print, 45 x 61 cm. Provenance: George Clarke Simpson, meteorologist on the Terra Nova expedition 1878-1965 and then… | *** |  |
| *** | Piggoreet Murder: Facinating group of 19th century photograph including 3 captioned carte de visites of the murder scene near Ballarat showing where Mr Ballan shot Mr T Ulicke Burke, 'Black trackers finding the pistol', 'The exact spot.....', & 'The tree… | *** |  |
| *** | 'The Spit, with sailing boat', black and white photograph Max Dupain signed verso 37 x 48 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A collection of five photographs - Nicholas Caire and unknown photographers, King Billy Maloga, Aboriginal Native Group, Aboriginals, Lake Tyers, Aborignal Ceremony, Aborignal Mother and Child, 14 x 19 cm (average each) | *** |  |
| *** | Photographer Unknown, but many images probably by Daniel Mundy or his brother, William Mundy. The handstamp 'Australasian Series by D.L. Mundy, F.R.G.S. Lanscape Photographer & Publisher.....Melbourne & Sydney.' appearing on the back of about half the… | *** |  |
| *** | Burton Bros, Dunedin & Wheeler & Son, Christchurch, New Zealand, A collection of 19 various early photographs depicting scenes of Invercargill, Makarewa River, Maori Land, Cathedral Square, Otira Gorge, Avon River, Lake Wakatipu, Christchurch, Dunedin and… | *** |  |
| *** | Herbert George Ponting (1870 - 1935) Cumulus Clouds rising up over Barne Glacier the photographer's blindstamp 'H.G. Ponting' in lower right margin carbon print, 49.5 x 65.3 cm numbered '105' on the Fine Art Society label on the reverse . Provenance:… | *** |  |
| *** | Herbert George Ponting (1870 - 1935) Face of the Great Ice Barrier and Mount Terror the photographer's blindstamp 'H.G. Ponting' in lower right margin carbon print, 49.5 x 65.3 cm numbered '20' on the Fine Art Society label on the reverse. Provenance:… | *** |  |
| *** | Photographs. New South Wales' leather bound collection of sepia albumen images tipped into the album. (Sydney: Charles Potter, Government Printer), 1889. Album of mounted (100) albumen silver print photographs. Oblong quarto, full blue morocco blind… | *** |  |
| *** | 'female nude', black and white photograph by Max Dupain, signed verso 48 x 35 cm | *** |  |
| *** | The Kelly Gang: Steve Hart and Sub-Inspector O'Connor, c1870s, Pair of albumen paper photographs, captioned in ink on part pages below each image, 9.1 x 5.7 cm (approx). Hart's photograph has a hole to the centre of image, both photographs have a trimmed… | *** |  |
| *** | Photographs of New South Wales, a collection of forty nine photgraphs, c. 1880, including Sydney, Hawkesbury River, Gosford, Woy, Woy, Ryde, Lake Macquarie, Newcastle and Jenolan Caves, housed in leather gilt embossed cylinder, 24 x 28 cm (approx each) | *** |  |
| *** | A collection of Aboriginal portraits, including Truganini, Queen Truganini, King Billy, an Aboriginal Chief and a family portrait, lithographic and sepia prints, 13 x 7.5 cm (average size) | *** |  |
| *** | Stereoviews: 'Last of the Aborigines of Tasmania' by S. Clifford, Hobart Town, very scarce, together with a selection of card of Tasmania and European scenes, (89 items plus stereoviewer) | *** |  |
| *** | A collection of six photographs of Australian Aboriginals, 16 x 21 cm (average) | *** |  |
| *** | Prince's Wharf, Hobart Tasmania, silver gelatin albumen print in carved timber frame, 19th century, 46 x 35 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A collection of eight sepia prints, lithographs and photographs of Aborigines, including man with fire sticks, throwing stick, boomerang, portraits and family group, 18 x 14 cm (average size) | *** |  |
| *** | Tasmanian Photographer - Alfred Winter [c1837-1911], A collection of albumen prints, with subjects including 'Hobart Town Harbour & Mt. Wellington', 'Elizabeth Street', 'Post Office', 'The Wharf', 'Hobart Town from the Huon Road', 'Shot Tower, Brown's… | *** |  |
| *** | Charles Rudd (1849-1901) photographer: concertina album with tipped-in albumen prints of Melbourne railway scenes including the Flinders Street Vaults, the Flinders Street Viaduct, the New Bridge over Balaclava Road, Platforms and Bridges at Hawthorn, etc… | *** |  |
| *** | Photographic archive of of the Victorian town of Drouin including Drouin football teams 1917 & 1919, Warrigal high school cricket team 1921, World War I military photographs & post cards, ephemera, maps etc. Well worth inspection. (70+ items) | *** |  |
| *** | Fiji: 12 photographs of Suva and village life, all with the circular handstamp of 'Caine & Co. Cuva' on reverse. c1920 | *** |  |
| *** | Gippsland: rare collection of real photograph cards of Omeo and surrounding district. Noted scenes, 'Football Sunnyside Village Wills'; Omeo Mt Wills coach in the snow (3); mining (2); 'Lightning Flume' bridge (5); 'Buchan Store Sherrington & Co.';… | *** |  |
| *** | Frank Hurley: 'Members of an Australian Battery hauling forward after the advance near Hannebeek, in the Ypres Sector, in Belgium, on October 4th, 1917' brown-toned carbon print in contemporary frame, 36 x 50 cm (image size) | *** |  |
| *** | An albumen photograph of Robert O'Hara Burke, Melbourne | *** |  |
| *** | Melbourne & Victoria: A collection of albumen photographs laid down on card or paper pages, images of various sizes including 'Elizabeth Street 1880', Bourke Street, Collins Street, Flinders Street, Church of England Grammar School, St Kilda 1880', The… | *** |  |
| *** | Stereographs Collection of cards including 'The American Fleet' (53), 'Duke of York Celebrations' (53), 'The Great War' (22), Boer War (12), New Zealand (39), Australian themes (40), total 219 cards | *** |  |
| *** | Tasmania: A collection of 1870s-90s albumen photographs laid down on pages or card, various sizes. Subjects mostly annotated in a contemprary hand and include 'Abandoned Penal Establishment, Salt Water River', Hobart Town Harbour 6th April 1880,… | *** |  |
| *** | Jones, John H. (1817-1872), Gold Digger's log hut (titled verso), circa 1861, Stereoscopic albumen print photograph (72 x 72 mm each image) on original pale yellow card mount. This very early Victorian goldfields photograph by John H. Jones was part of a… | *** |  |
| *** | A folio of forty one photographs and lithographs inlcuding images of Honolulu, various harbour scenes and ships and portraiture, 8 x 23 cm (average size) | *** |  |
| *** | Aviation: Panorama with caption in photograph 'Sir Ross Smith & Party Arrived Melbourne Feb 25th 1920'. 99 x 23 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Eleven original silver gelatin photographs of Mount Morgan Open Cast Mine, Queensland pre-1908 (when the railway was built). 15 cm x 11 cm | *** |  |
| *** | New Zealand : good group including Maori, shipping, Napier, real photographs and 6 panoramic 'Wallet Cards'. (165 items) | *** |  |
| *** | Photograph: Federal Parliamentary Labor Party meeting in Canberra October 23rd, 1937; A group photograph of 42 of the 45 members of the House of Representatives, Senators and Senators-Elect with 30 original signatures including former Prime Minister James… | *** |  |
| *** | Charles Woolley (1834-1922), Queen Truganini - Last of the Tasmanians, King Billy, A pair of sepia prints, each inscribed on margin, 12.5 x 9 cm each | *** |  |
| *** | Charles Bayliss - Photographer [1850-1897], A small group of albumen prints including 'Aborigines of New South Wales', 'Native Australians', 'Govett's Leap' and one other. (4 images). | *** |  |
| *** | Group including early Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, World War I real photographs, Australian & New Zealand, Aboriginal & Maori. Inspection will reward. 150+ cards | *** |  |
| *** | A collection of three photographic yachting images, Australian, circa 1910, including 'Tranquility' at anchor, Hobart and 'Tassie Too', the largest image 31 x 39 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Australiana: impressive album containing 'Ned Kelly Shoots Fitzpatrick', advertising, outback scenes, real photos by J. W. Lindt, birds by Neville Cayley, mining scenes etc. (100+ cards) | *** |  |
| *** | Ballarat & the Western District of Victoria, including an attractive group of real photograph cards showing the town of Stawell. Housed in 2 folders. 190+ cards | *** |  |
| *** | Sydney: A huge panoramic photogravure, circa 1905, comprised of 9 folding panels affixed to the backing board of what was the original cover. The view is taken from The Rocks area towards the East. Titled 'Sydney' in the plate. 21 x 258 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Advertising and Australian views early 20th century. Noted, 'Ballarat Brewing Co.- Bertie the Cellarman'; 'Ford Motor Co. Rouge Plant' (4); 'Horse Racing' (11); Mt.buffalo (12); 'Broken Hill' (3); Sorrento; Portland; Euroa; Luna Park etc. G/VG condition… | *** |  |
| *** | A 19th century photograph of a shipwreck, 40 x 56 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A collection of seven sepia prints, lithographs and photographs depicting Australian Aborigines, 20 x 15 cm (average size) | *** |  |
| *** | Sydney Street Scenes and Buildings, A collection of albumen prints laid down on pages, including 'George Street, Looking South', 'Macquarie Street', 'International Exhibition, Sydney 1879', 'Sydney Town Hall', 'New Government Buildings, Sydney', 'Garden… | *** |  |
| *** | American Fleet The Rose Stereographs. Group of 43 stereoscope cards circa 1908. | *** |  |
| *** | New South Wales by Kerry, Kerry & Jones, Bayliss, Caney & Others, A collection of albumen photographs laid down on card or pages, various sizes. Images are mainly scenes in the Blue Mountains, waterfalls, caves, the Zig Zag Railway, etc, one… | *** |  |
| *** | (Chang Woo Gow 1841 - 1893), Chang the Chinese Giant, Ballarat, 1870, Albumen print photograph of carte-de-visite 106 x 62 mm, verso imprinted for Bardwell's Royal Studio, Opposite the Theatre Ballarat. Chang Woo Gow (born in Canton, China) visited… | *** |  |
| *** | A collection of eight photographic slides by Henry King, South Pacific Natives, Cermonial Native, Natives of New Guinea, Natives in Hut, Portrait, Native Hut New Guinea, Native with Basket, Climbing Palm Tonga, 8 x 8 cm (each). Provenance: Christies, New… | *** |  |
| *** | (Queensland) Lundager, J. Hansen (attrib.), Mount Morgan Goldmine', circa 1889 hand-titled silver albumen print photograph 19.5 x 24 cm laid down on larger album page, verso with a similar photograph of identical format, also hand-titled 'Rockhampton in… | *** |  |
| *** | H King & Co, Australian Aboriginals of NSW, three mounted photographs, 19.5 x 14.5 cm (each) | *** |  |
| *** | Charles Bayliss (1850-1897), Wool Sorting, photograph, 11.5 x 19.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Tasmania: A collection comprising 2 parts of a panoramic view of Hobart from Lime Kiln Hill (each 17.5 x 23 cm) by H.H.Baily, the Cascade Brewery, The South Esk Bridge, Botanical Gardens Hobart, Cape Raul, and several others, mainly unidentified… | *** |  |
| *** | Albumen paper prints of Hobarttown 1862 (3) plus one of Sydney 1862 (A garden party at the family mansion, Woollahra House, built by Sir Daniel Cooper. Aboriginal servants in the background.)., 15.5 x 25 cm average | *** |  |
| *** | Douglas Stuart Wylie (Working Circa 1920), A selection of original photographs depicting scenes from the 1926 Aerial Expedition to Northern Australia. Images include Camooweal, Wyndham, Brunette Downs, Montgomery Island, Newcastle Waters, Wave Hill,… | *** |  |
| *** | (Unknown photographer) The Museum, Hobart, in course of construction (mss inscription verso) circa 1861 stereoscopic albumen print photograph (each image approx. 68 x 75 mm) mounted on buff card. | *** |  |
| *** | Carte de Visite photographs (198) & Cabinet Card photographs (30) by Australian photographers, plus range earlier tintype photographs (10). | *** |  |
| *** | BRETON, William Henry: 'Excursions in New South Wales, Western Australia, and Van Diemen's Land, during the years 1830, 1831, 1832, and 1833.' The revised second edition, with additions. [Richard Bentley, London, 1834]; 420pp, with two lithographic plates… | *** |  |
| *** | Great White Fleet stereographs, Rose series in original cardboard case. (35 cards) | *** |  |
| *** | A collection of Imperial War Museum postcard-size black & white photographs annotated and identified on reverse (approx. 1000) | *** |  |
| *** | Henry Hall Baily (Active 1865-1880), King Billy (William Lanne) Son of Queen Truganini, sepia print, inscribed in printed text on margin: H. H. Baily, Photo Hobart Town, inscribed verso: H. H. Baily from the London School of Photography Prize Medallist… | *** |  |
| *** | (Wool Industry), Electric sheep shearing machinery in Australia: a photographic archive, early 1900s. Electric sheep shearing was introduced into Australia in the 1880s, and by the end of World War I traditional shearing methods had been all but abandoned… | *** |  |
| *** | Tasmanian Photographs, late 19th & early 20th century including street scenes, Hobart, Bicheno, hydro-power pipe lines plus an unusual group (most likely Queensland) of 6 Aborigines & 10 whites. (17 items) | *** |  |