Portrait photographs of Aboriginal people from the Clarence River region, ca. 1905 / by Rudolf Pöch
Portrait photographs of Aboriginal people from the Clarence River region, ca. 1905 / by Rudolf Pöch
Portrait photographs of Aboriginal people from the Clarence River region, ca. 1905 / by Rudolf Pöch
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Date
ca. 1905
Call Numbers
PXB 1710
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Physical Description
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14 photographic prints - 15 x 10 cm or smaller, on card 21 x 15 cm - gelatin silver
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Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Created before 1955
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Fourteen black & white portrait photographs of eight different Aboriginal people, each with typescript captions and manuscript annotations in pencil on the verso. The photographs are housed in a custom black quarter morocco clamshell box, with ‘Rudolf Pöch / Photographs / c.1905’ in gold on the spine.
1. Robin Smith (NS-Wales)
2. Robin S...
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Full title
Portrait photographs of Aboriginal people from the Clarence River region, ca. 1905 / by Rudolf Pöch
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
Object History
From the photographer's own collection
Published information
Rudolf Pöch’s dissertation, ‘Studien an Eingeborenen von Neu-Suedwales und an australischen Schaedeln’ [Investigations into the Indigenous people of New South Wales and Australian skulls], published in 1915, includes eleven of these images.
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from James Cummins Bookseller, Melbourne Rare Book Fair Catalogue, Item 30, July 2016
Administrative / Biographical history
Rudolf Pöch (1870-1921) was an Austrian doctor, cinematographer, photographer and anthropologist. During a trip to Papua New Guinea in 1904-1906, he spent some time in New South Wales, with skull studies in the Australian Museum and a field trip to the Clarence River region providing material for his doctoral dissertation. The photographs were take...
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Call Numbers
PXB 1710
Record Identifier
1DrNBwy9
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1DrNBwy9
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1001658
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