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Stanley Street, North Adelaide looking south-east
Title : Stanley Street, North Adelaide looking south-east Stanley Street, North Adelaide looking south-east
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Creator : Sweet, Samuel White, 1825-1886, photographer
Source : B 58005/23
Date of creation : ca. 1880
Format : Photograph
Contributor : State Library of South Australia
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Description :

Lower North Adelaide with the Lion Brewery complex in centre of photograph. Stanley Street runs diagonally across front of the scene.


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 holdings of Captain Sweet's photographs.

Subjects
Related names :

Lion Brewery

Sweet, Samuel White, 1825-1886

 

Coverage year : 1880
Period : 1852-1883
Place : North Adelaide
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

SA Memory Samuel White Sweet photography


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