Brief description
These photographs (approximately 920) were taken by Captain Samuel Sweet, sea captain and photographer of colonial South Australia. Sweet began working as a photographer in Adelaide in 1867. In 1875 he retired from the sea and established his own photographic studio in Adelaide. He took photographs around South Australia, developing them in a horse-drawn darkroom. Sweet is known as the colony's foremost landscape photographer of the 1870s.Spatial Coverage And Location
text: South Australia
Subjects
adelaide |
events |
geographical |
history |
localities |
people |
photographers |
port adelaide |
portraits |
state library of south australia |
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Identifiers
- URI : data.sa.gov.au/dataset/19th-century-photographs-by-captain-samuel-sweet
- Local : 28baf505-4c5f-4e45-9fae-2605ee1cf7c1