Aboriginal Australian Cricket team studio portraits, ca. 1867-1868 / unknown photographer
Aboriginal Australian Cricket team studio portraits, ca. 1867-1868 / unknown photographer
About this item
Full title
Date
ca. 1867-1868
Call Numbers
SPG/25
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Physical Description
Contents
8 photographic prints - approximately 7.5 x 5 cm - carte de visite, trimmed to oval
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Created before 1955
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
1. Sundown
2. Cuzens
3. Red Cap
4. Lawrence Captain
5. G. Smith (?)
6. Twopenny
7. Dick a Dick
8. Harry Rose
Alternative Titles
Full title
Aboriginal Australian Cricket team studio portraits, ca. 1867-1868 / unknown photographer
Notes
General note
Transferred from SPG/Australian Aborigines Cricketers 1 (BM), August 2010
Description source
Names printed on the photograph below each portrait
Contextual Information
Administrative / Biographical history
The Aboriginal players in these portraits 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...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SPG/25
Record Identifier
94RxMJ61
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/94RxMJ61
Other Identifiers
Reference code
825473
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