Group of women ice skaters, photograph by the Leicagraph Company

SPF/3803

fonds

approximately 1940

Graphic Materials, Photographs

9683029

1 photographic print - gelatin silver - 9 x 14 cm

Leica Photo Services was operating at 6 Dalley Street, Sydney, in January 1931, and by 1934 were advertising as the Leicagraph Company, offered by Michael Lewicki and Herman Schütze until their partnership dissolved in 1939. Lewicki continued running the business and worked as an official photographer for the Department of Defence during World War II. In 1964, the business was listed as "Leica Photo Services & Leicagraph Co. Pty. Ltd." for its contract renewal in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette in 1964, and continued to operate until at least 1970.

References:
Trove. Leicagraph: a service of Leica Photo Service. Accessed 16 October 2024. https://trove.nla.gov.au/list/98348

Sydney Morning Herald. 20 January 1931. Accessed 16 October 2024. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16747093

Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. 23 January 1964. Accessed 16 October 2024. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/241005801/25998113

1 gelatin silver photographic print of seven young women ice skaters posed in front of a painted alpine backdrop, taken by a street photographer for the Leicagraph Company, Sydney, in about 1940. It may have been taken at either the Glaciarium in Railway Square or the Ice Palais at the Hall of Industries at Sydney Showgrounds.

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

Photographer's stamp "The Leicagraph Co. Box 127 CC, G.P.O. - Sydney" on verso.

Date based on vendor information and fashion depicted in photograph.