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Tabuteau, Philippe Ed; Fenton, JoanBiblio.com

Masonry in the Central Coast 1892-1992. collected Records of the District of Brisbane Water to 1891. Historical Records of the Central Coast of New South Wales.

SWEET, Captain Samuel WhiteBiblio.com

A vintage full-plate albumen paper photograph of a group of fourteen Ngarrindjeri Narrinyeri men at the graveside of the Reverend George Taplin at Point McLeay South Australia

115751George Taplin 1831-1879 missionary and teacher began his work with the Ngarrindjeri in April 1859; the 'site he chose for a settlement on the shores of Lake Alexandrina was a traditional camping ground called Raukkan The Ancient Way known to Europeans as Point McLeay. Keenly interested in Ngarrindjeri culture and society he learned their language used it in preaching and translated and published Bible tracts. He published invaluable anthropological studies which were much superior to contemporary work on South Australian Aboriginals. Despite his sympathy with the people and their traditions Taplin adhered to the contemporary view that Christianity and Europeanization should be adopted and Ngarrindjeri civilization abandoned; as a result he assisted in undermining their government and social structure further weakened traditional discipline and morale within the confederacy and provoked strong opposition from conservative tribal members. But they had been dispossessed and persecuted before his arrival and by helping them become literate and numerate and to acquire trades he enabled them to survive and flourish briefly in European society. Today hundreds of their descendants remain in various districts of Australia; their durability can largely be attributed to Taplin. He was a compassionate Christian and a courageous fighter. Exhausted he died of heart disease at Raukkan on 24 June 1879 survived by his wife and six children. He was buried in the village cemetery' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. The photograph 163 × 220 mm shows the newly-installed headstone which was 'Erected By The Aborigines'. It is on the original mount captioned along the bottom margin 'S.W. Sweet Photo. Flinders Street Adelaide'. The acidic mount is discoloured lightly stained and unevenly trimmed; the top right-hand corner is broken away taking with it a small triangular piece of the photograph approximately 10 × 45 mm of the sky; the sepia-toned print is a little speckled confined mainly to the left and right margins but overall it is a very arresting image. The only example recorded in Trove in the State Library of SA appears to be of better quality but it is not for sale and more importantly the photographer is not identified. This significant fact may now be added to the record. Captain Samuel White Sweet 1825-1886 was a sea captain surveyor and photographer: after he was censured when his ship ran aground in 1875 he 'retired from the sea opened a photographic studio in Adelaide and concentrated on landscapes. With his horse-drawn dark room he travelled through South Australia taking hundreds of skilful pictures of the outback stations and homesteads. The colony's foremost documentary photographer of the 1870s in the early 1880s he was one of the first to use the new dry-plate process' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. unknown

Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers · Australie750,00 $AU≈ 494,33 €

SWEET, Captain SamuelBiblio.com

Two vintage photographs of Point McLeay Aboriginal Mission Station 1878 a fine group portrait and a display of Ngarrindjeri weapons and artefacts

125425Original sepia-toned albumen paper photographs both 158 × 208 mm unmounted as issued; short sealed tear to the bottom corner of the photograph of weapons; essentially in fine condition. Captain Samuel White Sweet 1825-1886 sea captain surveyor and photographer: after he was censured when his ship ran aground in 1875 he 'retired from the sea opened a photographic studio in Adelaide and concentrated on landscapes. With his horse-drawn dark room he travelled through South Australia taking hundreds of skilful pictures of the outback stations and homesteads. The colony's foremost documentary photographer of the 1870s in the early 1880s he was one of the first to use the new dry-plate process' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. 'Point McLeay Mission was founded on the shores of Lake Alexandrina in 1859 by the Aborigines' Friends Association for the Aboriginal people of the Lower Lakes. George Taplin the Congregational minister was its first administrator. Following Government administration from 1916 Point McLeay was returned to the Ngarrindjeri people in 1974 and renamed Raukkan in 1982' State Library of South Australia. The group portrait depicts 55 Indigenous men women and children posed in five rows in front of one of the thatch-roofed residential cottages at Point McLeay. 'Sweet Adelaide 463' is inscribed in the negative; 'Native Mission Station Ponindie sic' is written in pencil and in error on the verso. The photograph of weapons and artefacts is inscribed 'Sweet Adelaide 462' in the negative and has an early caption in pencil on the verso 'Native Ornaments & Weapons'. The objects numbered 1 to 17 in the negative are displayed against a whitewashed wall of one of the cottages. We have traced only one example of the latter photograph in Trove in the National Library of Australia and none of the group portrait. 'Captain Sweet's Colonial Imagination - The Ideals of Modernity in South Australian Views Photography 1866-1886' by Karen Magee a 2014 University of Adelaide doctoral thesis accessible online notes that Sweet visited Point McLeay in 1878 and 1880. She reproduces the latter photograph in her extensive catalogue see number 811 '"Ngarrindjeri weapons and hunting implements" 1878 Point McLeay. Private Collection' but does not record the group portrait. 2 items. unknown

Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers · Australie4 500,00 $AU≈ 2 965,95 €