Views of Adelaide, ca. 1885-1886 / Capt [i.e. Captain] Samuel White Sweet

PXA 511

fonds

ca. 1885-1886

Graphic Materials, Photographs

862394

24 photographs - various sizes, volume 22.3 x 30.3 cm - albumen

Included are views of public buildings, streets, churches and bridges in and around Adelaide.

Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room -

Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.

Keyword subject:

Adelaide Jubilee International Exhibition Building
Darmody, Bridget

Ten photographs are signed 'Sweet Adeialde'. Titled as above on front cover ; 'Photographs of Adelaide' is gold stamped on spine. One photograph (No.4) is titled within image ; each is titled in ink, in unidentified hand, beneath image on mount. Each signed photographer's number within image.

None are dated; dated from studio listing in Davies, Alan, 'The Mechanical Eye in Australia', Melbourne, O.U.P., 1985 ; and from buildings depicted eg. Adelaide Jubilee International Exhibition buildings nearing completion, ca. 1886 (No.2). See Scott, H.J., 'South Australia in 1887 : a handbook for the Adelaide Jubilee International Exhibition...', Adelaide, Government Printer, 1887.