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Photograph

Title
Paul Foelsche's family at Mindil Beach with unidentified Chinese servant
Date
c. 1896
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Mindil Beach
Interpretive description

Note that the State Library of South Australia and Northern Territory Library copies of this photograph are reversed.

External Url
http://images.slsa.sa.gov.au/mpcimg/47030/B46851.htm

Versions

  1. Click to view this catalogue record + digital image
    Title
    Beach Picnic, Darwin
    Description

    A group of men, women and children on a beach; one man holds a kite. Date is approximate.

    Date
    c. 1890
    Type
    catalogue record + digital image
    Form
    photograph ; 6x8.
    Creator
    Foelsche, P. (Paul), 1831-1914
    Control
    B 46851
    Source

    Northern Territory collection; State Library of South Australia. Details

  2. Click to view this catalogue record + digital image
    Title
    Picnic
    Description

    A picnic party on Vestey's Beach with East Point in the background.

    Type
    catalogue record + digital image
    Control
    28\28181, PH0297/0030
    Source

    Margaret Widdup collection, 1870s - 1930s, 0297; Northern Territory Library. Details

    Rights
    Reproduction rights owned by the Northern Territory Library.
  3. Published photograph
    Title
    Paul Foelsche's family at Mindil Beach, about 1896
    Description

    Foelsche's wife Charlotte faces her husband, on the left. At right, barefooted and holding a kite, is Foelsche's energetic son-in-law Hildebrand Stevens, one of the Territory's pioneering figures. Next to him is his wife, Rosie Emma, Foelsche's eldest daughter. William Andrews, husband of Foelsche's other daughter Mary, stands on Rosie's right, next to a Chinese servant and an Aboriginal boy. Mary sits with her two daughters, Rita and Dorothy. An unidentified man completes the group at left.

    Date
    c. 1896
    Type
    Published photograph
    Creator
    Foelsche, P. (Paul), 1831-1914
    Control
    p.7
    Source

    Jones, Philip, The Policeman's Eye: The Frontier Photography of Paul Foelsche, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, 2005. Details

    Original source State Library of South Australia

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Created: 21 August 2006