King William Street, Adelaide |
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| Title : | King William Street, Adelaide |
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| Creator : | Sweet, Samuel White, 1825-1886, photographer. | ||
| Source : | B 58005/29 | ||
| Date of creation : | ca. 1880 | ||
| Format : | Photograph | ||
| Contributor : | State Library catalogue | ||
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| Description : |
King William Street, Adelaide looking south from the east side, with the Advertiser newspaper offices on the corner of Waymouth Street. The towers of the Town Hall and General Post Office and the Local and Insolvency Court can be seen in the background. This image is from an album of 50 photographs of Adelaide and country subjects. Samuel Sweet is well known as a photographer but he was also a ship's captain and a surveyor. Born in Portsea, England in 1825, Sweet joined the navy at around 19 years of age and traveled extensively to China and India. He was commander of the Pizarro (ship) and then the Sarah Neumann (ship) for N. J. Myers Son & Co. of Liverpool. He arrived in Adelaide in 1867 and worked as a photographer. Captain Sweet went back to sea in 1869 and was in command of various vessels until 1875 when his ship was involved in an accident for which he was blamed. He then retired from the sea and set up a photographic studio in Rundle Street, Adelaide. He ran a traveling photographic service from there, mainly concentrating on landscapes. Sweet became South Australia's foremost documentary photographer of the 1870s. |
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| Related names : | Sweet, Samuel White, 1825-1886 |
| Coverage year : | 1880 |
| Period : | 1852-1883 |
| Place : | King William Street |
| Region : | Adelaide city |
| Further reading : | Cato, J The Story of the Camera in Australia Melbourne: Georgian House, 1955 Jensen, Elfrida Colonial architecture in South Australia: a definitve chronicle of development 1836-1890 and the social history of the times: Adelaide, Rigby, 1980 Pike, Philip W Captain Sweet's Adelaide Adelaide: Longwood Media, 1983 Robinson, J A century in focus : South Australian photography, 1840s-1940s Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 2007 State Library of South Australia, Archival collection Papers of S.W. Sweet (PRG 742) |
| Internet links : | Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition: see Sweet, Samuel White (1825 - 1886) |
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