Studio portrait probably of an African American man, photograph by Areas Photographic Co., G. F. Jenkinson, Manager

P1/2338

fonds

probably between 1889 and 1899

Graphic Materials, Photographs

9653535

1 photographic print - mount 11 x 7 cm (carte de visite format) - albumen print on card mount

George Frederick Jenkinson initially worked as a travelling photographer in Crystal Brook, Clare and Laura, South Australia. From 1898 to 1903 he was manager of the Areas Photographic Co. in Argent Street, Broken Hill, New South Wales. He later immigrated to New Zealand and died in there in 1925, aged 75.

Various African American performance troupes visited Broken Hill between 1889 and 1899. The Hicks Sawyer Minstrels and the Friedman Minstrel Company performed in Broken Hill in 1889 and McAdoo’s Georgia Minstrels in 1899.

References:
“Advertising”, Barrier Miner, 24 July, 1893, p. 3. Accessed May 30, 2022. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article44114715
Library Acquisition file
“Obituary”, New Zealand Herald, 19 May, 1925, p. 10. Accessed May 30, 2022. https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19250519.2.121
Davies, Alan, Peter Stanbury, and Con. Tanre. The Mechanical Eye in Australia : Photography 1841-1900. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1985.

A black and white studio portrait, carte de visite format, of an unidentified male. Taken at George Frederick Jenkinson’s Areas Photographic Co., Broken Hill.

Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Title devised by cataloguer based on information supplied by vendor and imprint on front and back.

Photographer’s imprint, ‘Areas Photo Co., G. F. Jenkinson, Manager’ at lower margin of mount, front. Printed on back of mount, 'The Areas Photographic Co. Esse Quan Videre. G. F. Jenkinson, Manager'.

Date based on the time span the Areas Photographic Co. was managed by George Frederick Jenkinson in Broken Hill, New South Wales and when the African American troupes were performing there.