• Title
  Portrait of Harry Power by Samuel Camfield Baker
• Creator
  Camfield Baker, active 1864-1894
• Call number
  SPF/3773
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1873
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  9676431
• Physical Description
  1 photographic print - albumen, carte de visite - 11 x 6 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Samuel Camfield Baker inherited the photographic business of his father, James Baker, at 128 William Street, Paddington, Sydney from 1864, teaching photography and producing works through his studio, Baker's School of Photography. Later, he travelled and worked as a photographer through the goldfields region of rural New South Wales: at Young and Murrumburrah in 1869, at Gulgong between 1872 and 1873, and at Forbes between 1883 and 1884. In 1872 in Wellington, New South Wales, he married Edith Whittle. By 1894, he had filed for bankruptcy on the Paddington studio after a fire destroyed the accounting records and his business partner absconded.
  
  Source:
  Design & Art Australia Online. "Camfield Baker". Accessed 8 January 2024. https://www.daao.org.au/bio/version_history/camfield-baker
  
  The Australian Star. 30 August 1894. Accessed 8 January 2024. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/227493588
• Collection history
  Previously owned by Alfred Dampier, a Sydney actor, stage manager and playwright, for whom the photograph is inscribed on verso.
• Scope and Content
  A photographic portrait in carte de visite format of comedian Harry Power, taken by Samuel Camfield Baker in Gulgong, New South Wales in April or May 1873. The photograph shows Power sitting at a desk, posed with pen in hand. The verso of the photograph bears a later inscription to the recipient of the carte and a date of 7 December 1873.
• Language
  English
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Pencil inscription on recto: "Harry Power, comedian" and two separate ink inscriptions on verso: "Caul Baker Photo" and "Yours frat[ernally] Harry Power, Sydney 7/12/73".
• Date note
  
  Date based on period during which Harry Power visited and performed in Gulgong, New South Wales.
• Subject
  Portrait photography--New South Wales--19th century.
  Actors--Australia--Photographs.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE21165516

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