• Title
  Solferino, Lionsville, Grafton & Australian Aborigines, 1872-1873 / photographed by J.W. Lindt
• Creator
  J. W. (John William) Lindt, 1845-1926
• Call number
  PXA 1128
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1872-1873
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  457760
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 16 albumen photoprints - 22.4 x 26.5 cm. - photoprints on gilt-edged card pages removed from an album
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  For a biography of John William Lindt, see: Australian Dictionary of Biography online edition
• Scope and Content
  1-2. Solferino Township, 1873 [panorama, probably taken in December 1872]
  3. Scene Solferino Township
  4. Solferino Hill
  5. Washpool Creek, Solferino
  6. View - South Grafton from Wilson's Hill
  7. Diggers hut, Solferino, 1872
  8. [Man and three Aborigines]
  9. Diggers' camp, Lionsville
  10. Scene near Lionsville, Clarence District
  11. [Lionsville ?]
  12. Church of England Cemetery, Grafton; Bishop Sawyer's tomb
  13. Australian scene, grasstree
  14. Clarence River Blacks
  15. Clarence River Native, Pemaic
  16. Clarence River Native
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Published Information
  For a description of Lindt's photographic views "in and around Solferino" see the Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser, 3 December 1872 and 17 December 1872
• General note
  
  Photographs chiefly captioned in ink in contemporary hand
  PXA 1128/1-2 form a panoramic view of Solferino, 1873; signs on the European Hotel (lic. Louis Robinson), J. Havinden's miner's store, Solferino Hotel (lic. James Laird), Albion Hotel (Samuel J. Ferguson) and Harps Family Butcher can be read
  Photographer's blind stamp (nos PXA 1128/1-2,7-13,15-16))
  PXA 1128/7: two signs on the tree between the miners and their hut read: "The Main Top" and "The ... U-Pidee / songs and melodies", the latter with a black & white minstrel image. The miners are posed admiring a gold nugget in the pan. The "miner" on the right, who may be from Lindt's party, is also in PXA 1128/8.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 846276
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Photographs chiefly inscribed "TN Page" in blue ink in a more modern hand
• Name
  Pemaic (Aboriginal woman)
  Sawyer, William Collinson
  
• Subject
  Aboriginal Australians.
  Cities and towns--New South Wales--Grafton region
  Gold mines and mining--New South Wales--Grafton District
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  bark huts & houses
  burial grounds
  gold miners
  gold-diggings
  panoramic views
  portraits
  shantytowns
  towns
  
• Place
  Grafton (N.S.W.)
  Lionsville (N.S.W.)
  Solferino (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3250201

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