• Title
  Girard family photographs of Bandjalang [Bundjalung] people, Richmond River, New South Wales, ca. 1865
• Creator
  Girard family
• Call number
  PXB 133
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1865
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  439934
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  4 photographs - albumen
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  In the 1860s Mary Girard (d. 1876), widow of Francis Girard (1791-1859), acquired Lismore Station on the Richmond River. The Girard family also acquired Dungarubba, on the lower Richmond, as a cattle run. -- Girard family (MLDOC 2468)
• Scope and Content
  1. [Group portrait, sitting by the river]. Mounted on card 20.3 x 24.5 cm.
  2. [Group portrait showing body decoration (and application) including a boomerang, spears, shields and bags]. 15.5 x 23.1 cm, mounted on card 18.1 x 23.1 cm.
  3. [Group portrait by the river showing blankets, body decoration (cicatrices), shields and spears]. 18.4 x 24 cm., mounted on card 20.5 x 24.4 cm.
  4. [Female portrait, sitting by the river]. Mounted on card 20.5 x 22.9 cm.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Related Material
  [Copy photograph of Mary Girard's grave, 19--?] (9640103)
  Biographical material relating to the Girard family, 1820-1934 (936807)
• General note
  
  Title devised by cataloguer, Mar 2004, previously titled "Photographs of aborigines in the Lismore district" (Pictures Card Catalogue).
  
  The photographer of numbers 1, 3 & 4 was probably Conrad Wagner.
  The following article appeared in the Clarence & Richmond Examiner, 31 October 1865. "Views of the Richmond River. - We have been favoured with a sight of some very fine photographic views of the Richmond River, taken by our townsman - Mr. Conrad Wagner - who is at present on a visit to that district, and will remain there for about three weeks longer. The views before us are the works of a real artist, as is evident at a glance. We would recommend our Richmond River friends who may be desirous of having a view of any portion of their fine river not to let slip an opportunity like the present, but avail themselves of the services of Mr. Wagner, who we feel sure will not fail to give every satisfaction even to the most fastidious, either in the execution of views or portraits of themselves and their friends." (p.2)
  "PHOTOGRAPHY. MR. WAGNER, begs to notify to the public that he will be absent from Grafton, about three weeks, taking views of the various stations on the Richmond River." (p.3).
  
  Reference sources:
  Bundjalung [i.e. Bandjalang] Country by Robyn Howell in Squatters on the Richmond : runs, owners and boundaries, from settlement to dissolution 1840-1900 / by William J. Olley. Lismore, N.S.W. : W.J. Olley, 1995. (p.22)
  An index to the Clarence & Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser : book 1 : pioneers of the Clarence & Richmond 1859-1869 / compiled & indexed by Jean McNaught ; assisted by Susan Jeffery. Goonellabah, N.S.W. : Richmond-Tweed Regional Library, 2003.
  Ken Orchard "J.W. Lindt's Australian Aboriginals (1873-74)" in: History of Photography, Vol 23, No 2, Spring 1999.
  
  Related pictorial material: Photograph of the gravestone of Mary Girard (SPF/Girard, Mary - Grave)
  Digital order no:Album ID : 824204
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Captioned in pencil in later hand on reverse
  "Scene near where Lismore stands today" -- no.1
  "A valley which is now the centre of Lismore, (-1865)" -- no.2
  "Richmond River (1865) at spot now known as Alstonville" -- no.3
  "Scene on the Richmond River over 60 yeras ago" -- no.4
  "One of the native servants Lismore Station circa 1865-70 Wilson's Creek. Property - Francis Girard - ex officer of the Armee Napoleon Buonaparte. Emma Girard, daughter married John Horniman Manager C.B.C. Lismore circa 1875. Homestead of Lismore Station built entirely of cedar (ruin seen by John H. in 1925)" -- transcribed from note originally on reverse of no.4
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Wagner, Conrad, ca. 1818-1910
  
• Name
  Bandjalang (Australian people)
  Girard family
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal artefacts
  Aboriginal customs
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  body-marking
  cicatrices
  groups (people)
  rugs (blankets)
  
• Place
  Lismore Region (N.S.W.)
  Richmond River Region (N.S.W)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Living Language: Country, Culture, Community - State Library of New South Wales (13 July - 17 November, 2019). Applies to: Nos. 1-4
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE988537

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