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Kruger, Johan Friedrich Carl (AA 566)

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The South Australian Museum collection comprises 12 photographs of Aboriginal people in Victoria bound in one album. Eleven of these prints are studio portraits of Aboriginal men, women and children and one print of an Aboriginal family. Each print is mounted on an individual page with titles below the image.

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Johan Friedrich Carl (Fred) Kruger was a professional photographer born on 18 April 1831 in Berlin. Kruger arrived in Australia in the early 1860s and in 1866 he opened a photographic studio at 133 Cardigan Street, Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria. In 1866 Kruger took the first group photograh of the Aboriginal cricket team who later played in England in 1868. Kruger was commissioned in 1877 by the Victorian Board for the protection of Aborigines to produce an album of carte-de-visite portraits of the Aboriginal people at the Coranderrk Aboriginal Mission Station. Fred Kruger died in Surrey Hills, Melbourne on 18 February 1888.

Data time period: 1877 to 1877

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text: Coranderrk Aboriginal Mission Station

text: Victoria

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Aboriginal peoples | Aboriginal peoples (Australians) | Johan Friedrich Carl (Fred) Kruger | Missions | Photograph albums | Photography | Portrait photographs | Portrait photography | Victorian Board for the protection of Aborigines | albumen prints | photo albums | photographers | portraits | welfare establishments |

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  • Local : AA 566