Summary
This image is from photograph album containing one cabinet card, six cabinet photographs, ninety one carte de visite photographs and two tintype photographs. The photographs are almost all studio portraits of men, women and children taken in various photographic studios in Ballarat, Melbourne, Hobart, Wagga Wagga, Cardiff and London between 1850 and 1900.
Description of Content
Studio portrait of two unknown girls.
Physical Description
Carte de visite featuring an albumen photograph on black card with gold text. Tissue paper is attached along top edge of card.
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Collecting Areas
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Acquisition Information
Donation from Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences (Powerhouse Museum), 04 Jun 1990
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Place & Date Created
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Photographer
Chuck - The Queen Studio, Next Savings Bank, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
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Printer
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Format
Photograph, paper base, Carte de Visite, Monochrome
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Inscriptions
Printed in gold ink on card below photograph: 'Chuck, / BALLARAT, / Next Savings Bank. / Gold Medallist, London.' Printed in gold ink on back of card: 'THE STUDIO, / Next Savings Bank, / Ballaarat. / By Special / Appointment. / CHUCK, / Artist Photographer, / To H. R. H. the Duke of Edinburgh. K. G. ; Their / Excellencies most of the Governors of the Austra- / lian Colonies ; Their Honors the Judges ; The / Trustees National Gallery. / AWARDED, AT LONDON, / GOLD MEDAL / FOR EXCELLENCE IN PHOTOGRAPHY ! / THIS PHOTOGRAPH can be ENLARGED / by Mr. Chuck to any size required, from 20s / upwards. CASH OR TIME PAYMENT. / Orders, Out-door Photography, Houses, Tomb- / stones, &c., executed with despatch. / DUPLICATES ON APPLICATION ! / No. / F. W. NIVEN & OO, PRINTERS, BALLARAT' Hand written in grey pencil on back of card: '3339'
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Discipline
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Type of item
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Image Dimensions - Photograph
64 mm (Width), 106 mm (Height)
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Keywords
Albumen Photographs, Cartes de Visites, Children, Dolls, People, Photographic Studios, Photography, Portraits, Rural Victoria, Toys