Lot 69
Stamped on back 'Tyrells Museum of Antiques, Books & Curios 143 Castlereagh Street Sydney"
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Notes:
- James Tyrrell (1875-1961) was a Sydney based publisher and bookseller whose customers included Henry Lawson and Norman Lindsay. The American authors Mark Twain and Robert Louis Stephenson are also known to have frequented Tyrells Bookshop when visiting Sydney. In 1914 Tyrell opened a bookshop at 143 Castlereagh Street, Sydney that also included a museum that housed his eponymous collection of Australiana. Two of Sydneys most prolific photographic studios at the turn of the nineteenth century were run by Henry King and Charles Kerry, both of whom recorded early Australian history and anthropology and particularly portrait studies of Australian Aborigines. In the mid-1920s,Tyrrell acquired the photo glass negatives of both studios which he used occasionally to produce photographs for his own publications. The glass negatives were later purchased by Australian Consolidated Press which eventually donated them to the Powerhouse Museum. This photograph is part of a reference collection of original silver gelatine photographs of aborigines taken from the glass negatives when owned by Tyrell. It bears the company stamp of Tyrells Museum 143 Castlereagh Street on the reverse and is thought to date back to the 1920s. It is extremely rare in this format and has survived in very small numbers.
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