• Title
  Post mortem photograph of bushranger Joe Governor, 1900 / photograph by Saunders
• Creator
  A. F. (Albert Francis) Saunders
• Call number
  DL Pd 787
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  31 October-1 November 1900
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  147502
• Physical Description
  1 photographic print - silver gelatin - 16 x 12 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  For further biographical information on Joe Governor see entry under Jimmy Governor in the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol.9, p.62
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Saunders took this photograph and at least one other full length (see Location Number: P1/Governor [BM] Mitchell Library), under instruction from Sub-Inspector Hinds.
  For report on the inquest see: The Singleton Argus, Sat. 3rd Nov 1900, p.3. Location number: BN 307, State Reference Library.
  Digital order no:a928942
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Joe Governor shortly after being shot by Wilkinson. This is about the best photograph procured photo. by Saunders -- in pencil on reverse
• Name
  Governor, Joe
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  bushrangers
  cadavers (people)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Mirror with a Memory : photographic portraiture in Australia - National Portrait Gallery (Australia) (3 March - 11 June, 2000)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1660256

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