Aboriginal cricketers alongside the Melbourne Cricket Ground Pavilion, c.1867
Aboriginal cricketers alongside the Melbourne Cricket Ground Pavilion, c.1867
Aboriginal cricketers alongside the Melbourne Cricket Ground Pavilion, c.1867
About this item
Full title
Date
c.1867
Call Numbers
MPG/113
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
Photographs - 22 x 26 cm. - Multiple tears. Mounted - 1 photoprint
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Created before 1955
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Issue Copy
Digitised
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More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
[Team members: at rear (left to right), Tarpot, T W Wills, Johnny Mullagh; front row, King Cole (leg on chair), Dick-a-Dick (standing); seated (left to right), Jellico, Peter, Red Cap, Harry Rose [Tiger Rose?], Bullocky, Cuzens]
Alternative Titles
Full title
Aboriginal cricketers alongside the Melbourne Cricket Ground Pavilion, c.1867
Notes
General note
Digital order no:Album ID : 954268...
Signature / Inscriptions
16th Feb. 1867. Mr [T W] Wills arrived in Sydney with the Aboriginal Cricketers -- on label on reverse in pencil (full label is damaged and incomplete)
Attributions / Conjectures
On a later silver gelatin photographic SPG copy held in the Library, this key to the players:
"The team comprised the following players: Bullocky, Tiger, Mullagh, red Cap, Dick-a-Dick, Peter, Lawrence, king Cole, Twopenny, Jim Crow, Dumas, Cuzens, Charlie, Mosquito, Shepperd, promoter & manager Mr R. Hayman"
Published information
Published in: Greg de Moore "The man who invented AFL", SAM (Sydney Alumni Magazine), July 2010, p. 36, which see for an article on Tom (Thomas) Wills
Contextual Information
Source
Presented November 1956
Exhibited in
Administrative / Biographical history
The Aboriginal players in this photo were part of a team of 19 Aboriginal cricketers, along with English player Charles Lawrence as captain and 3 other white cricketers, who toured England in 1868, playing cricket and giving demonstrations of boomerang throwing and dancing. The team played 47 matches, winning 14, losing 14 and drawing 19. One playe...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
MPG/113
Record Identifier
1l4d5d51
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1l4d5d51
Other Identifiers
Reference code
420833
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