• Title
  Ben Hall, 1863 / [carte de visite copy photograph] Freeman Brothers, Sydney
• Creator
  Freeman Brothers
• Call number
  P1/693
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1863
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  442170
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 photograph - carte de visite - image 4.6 x 3.8 cm., on card 10 x 6.3 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Bushranger, Benjamin Hall (1837-1865), was ambushed and shot by the police, near Forbes on 5 May 1865.
  
  Reference: Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol.4, 1851-1890. Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 1972.
• Scope and Content
  Head and shoulders portrait
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Transferred from P1/H (BM)
  Digital order no:a128701
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  "Description of Ben Hall / About 28 years of age, 5 feet 9 / inches high, stout build (would / weigh about 13 stone 7 lbs) figure / erect, respectable appearance / light brown wavy hair, short / light beard thick but darker near / his throat and jaws, pleasing / expression of countenance, soft / grey eyes, handsome nose / inclined to be hooked and thin / compressed lips - sometimes / [wears] beard & whiskers and / sometimes only beard. / This is considered a good / likeness - / PG [Police Gazette] 1863 Page 350" -- inscribed in ink on reverse over the photographer's stamp
• Subject
  Hall, Ben, 1837-1865
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  bushrangers
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Mirror with a Memory : photographic portraiture in Australia - National Portrait Gallery (Australia) (3 March - 11 June, 2000)
  Eye 4 photography - State Library of New South Wales (January, 2005 - May, 2005)

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