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ISSN 1039-3498 | no. 46 | August 2000


Views of Australia, circa 1880

Mrulie Aboriginal CampThe visual record of South Australia and the Northern Territory in the 1880s was strengthened by the recent purchase of a folio album of 100 photographs by Captain Samuel Sweet, one of South Australia’s premier nineteenth-century photographers. The album was acquired from Adelaide-based antiquarian bookseller Michael Treloar.

The subject coverage of the album is broad and includes public buildings, botanic gardens, street scenes, stately homes of Adelaide, the towns of Glenelg and Port Adelaide, villages in the Adelaide Hills and a wide range of structures and features from around the State. Of particular interest are the views of Darwin (three taken in 1869), camels and bullock teams, shearers and groups of Indigenous Australians.

The Library’s Pictorial Collection has added to its series of photographs by Samuel Sweet (1825–1886) with the acquisition of a folio album of 100 images of South Australia and the Northern Territory taken by Captain Sweet between the 1860s and 1880s. Among the images are Murlie [Aboriginal Camp] (above) and the Sheep Shearers (below)

Sheep shearers

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