Studio portrait of Neddy Mitchell, seated, Victoria, approximately 1866 / photograph by Thomas J. Washbourne

SPF/1331

fonds

approximately 1866

Graphic Materials, Photographs

909974

1 photographic print - albumen - 10.4 x 6.2 cm (carte de visite format)

Neddy Mitchell was an Aboriginal Australian man from Victoria.

Reference:
Lawrence, Ruth E. "Thomas Jeston Washbourne’s photographs of Indigenous Australians." La Trobe Journal, no. 107 (November 2022): 107-11. Accessed 9 December 2022.
https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/stories/our-publications/la-trobe-journal/la-trobe-journal-no-107-november-2022

Photograph of Aboriginal Australian man Neddy Mitchell, seated with an animal fur cloak draped over his shoulder.

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Title devised by cataloguer based on research by Dr Ruth E Lawrence and National Library of Australia catalogue: PIC/15590/1-14 LOC Album 1169

Previously titled [Yarra Aboriginal man in kangaroo furs]

Transferred from SPF /Australian Aborigines -- Vic. (BM), October 2010

Printed on mount below image, 'Copyright Registered / Washbourne. Photo.'
Inscribed in ink on verso of photograph by unknown person, 'Blacks, Yarra'.

Previously dated 1870. Date changed to approximately 1866 based on information supplied by Dr Ruth E Lawrence in 2022.