Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery, Adelaide |
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| Title : | Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery, Adelaide |
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| Creator : | Sweet, Samuel White, 1825-1886, photographer | ||
| Source : | B 58005/49 | ||
| Date of creation : | ca. 1880 | ||
| Format : | Photograph | ||
| Contributor : | State Library of South Australia | ||
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| Copyright : | Reproduction rights are owned by State Library of South Australia. This image may be printed or saved for research or study. Use for any other purpose requires permission from the State Library of South Australia. To request approval, complete the Permission to publish form. |
| Description : |
This building housing the city's second public library, museum and art gallery, was opened in 1884. Later it was to be known as the Jervois Wing of the State Library after the Governor who laid its foundation stone. The Jervois building is now known as the Mortlock Wing of the State Library of South Australia. 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. See all of the Library's digitised holding's of Captain Sweet's photographs. |
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| Related names : | Sweet, Samuel White, 1825-1886 Jervois Wing, State Library of South Australia Mortlock building, State Library of South Australia |
| Coverage year : | 1880 |
| Period : | 1852-1883 |
| Place : | North Terrace, Mortlock building |
| Region : | Adelaide city |
| Further reading : | Cato, J The Story of the Camera in Australia Melbourne: Georgian House, 1955 State Library of South Australia, Archival collection Papers of S.W. Sweet (PRG 742) |
| Internet links : | Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition, search Sweet, Samuel White |
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