Aboriginal cricketers alongside the Melbourne Cricket Ground Pavilion, c.1867 / photographer unknown
Aboriginal cricketers alongside the Melbourne Cricket Ground Pavilion, c.1867 / photographer unknown
About this item
Full title
Date
ca. 1900 copy of 1867 photoprint
Call Numbers
SPG/49
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Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
1 photographic print - 26.5 x 31.8 cm - gelatin silver, enlarged, retouched
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Team members: Bullocky, Mullagh, Tiger, King Cole, Red Cap, Peter, Jim Crow, Twopenny, Charley, Cozens, Mosquito, Lawrence (white). On the xtreme right, Hayman. The manager (centre) was Captain W. E. Brougham Gurnett
The team ... played a match against the Albert Club, on the Albert Ground, Redfern, Sydney, on February 21,22, and 23, 1867
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Full title
Aboriginal cricketers alongside the Melbourne Cricket Ground Pavilion, c.1867 / photographer unknown
Notes
General note
Reference:
The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia / David Horton (General Editor). Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 1994
Cricket Walkabout: the Australian Aboriginal Cricketers on Tour, 1867-68 / John Mulvaney, Rex Harcourt. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1967
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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)
Contextual Information
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...
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Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SPG/49
Record Identifier
Yj7dd3G9
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Yj7dd3G9
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Reference code
903824
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