[Photographs of Australian Aboriginal people taken on] the Elder Scientific Exploration Expedition, 1891-1892 / Frederick Elliott

PXA 719

item

1891-1892

Graphic Materials, Photographs

52260

1 album (35 photographic prints) - albumen - image 13.2 x 19 cm., on mounts 23.2 x 30.2 cm in brown cloth album with binder's label 'Whillas & Ormiston, Adelaide' left front endpaper, top left

A printed index listing titles of 36 images on right front endpaper

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

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this collection contains images of people who have passed. There may be images, words and descriptions that could be considered sensitive or offensive in today’s context.
Note by a Library officer on left front endpaper: 'This vol. found among Basedow collection, Sep. 1961, but does not seem to belong there'
The Library also holds Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition photographs at F572.995/E Mitchell Library (lacking no. 36, but with 2 additional previously unrecorded images); in the Mitchell Library Pictures collection at PXA 655 (39 images) and PXA 654 (2v.) (107 images), both from the David Lindsay papers
Transferred 13 November 1987 to Pic.Acc.6222 from the Manuscripts collection, former location MLMSS 396/Item 2

Each photograph has a numbered, printed label beneath image. Album has title gold embossed on front cover: 'The Elder Scientific Exploration Expedition 1891-2. Photographs'