Sunday, February 28, 2010

Early photographers of Port Pirie

American Gem Company
Areas Photographic Company (George Frederick Jenkinson)
George Arnold Ball
Ball & Fegan
Thomas Legh Barnard
Samuel D. Broadbent
Crown Studio
Deardon
(A. S. Doolette & Co) Abraham Sims Doolette
Townsend Duryea (Jnr)
John James William Rolling Fegan
Fine Art Photo Co. (W. J. R. Hilton)
Arthur Francis
David W. Higgins
William George Holden
Carl Karlbaum
G. H. Knight
Herbert Langsford
C. K. Mallyon
Henry Panton
Parkers Studio
Perry Brothers (Frank Parr Perry & Harry Roscola Perry)
Alan Row
Walter Rowe
Robert Vere Scott
Edward William Searle
W. S. Smith
Edward George Tims
Toska
William Wedd

Any further information or contact with descendants and relations of these photographers is welcome.

The Port Pirie Photographic Society formed in 1903 with Lionel B. Knight as Secretary.

September 17.- At a meeting of the new-
ly-formed Port Pirie Photographic Society,
held to-night, Mr. L. B. Knight (secretary)
reported that 40 persons had already hand-
ed in their names for membership.

Advertiser 19 September 1903 p.10

This notice of prizewinners at the Port Pirie Show on 7 November 1906 gives a further idea of the state of amateur photography in the town at the time.

Photography.-
Judges - Messrs. J. Jobson and G. E. Hilliard.
Animal study, W. J. Henderson. ' Flower, fruit, or
still life, W. J. Henderson. Copying, C. K. Mal-
lyon. Collection three out-door portraits, W. J.
Henderson. Landscapes or seascapes, unretouched,
G. Twill; C. K. Mallyon. Enlargements, J. P.
Loman (2). Genre, W. J. Henderson; G. Twill.
Lantern slides, W. J. Henderson; J. P. Loman.
Snapshots, W. J. Henderson. Pictorial postcards,
W. J. Henderson; G. Twill. Bromides, W. J.
Henderson (1 and 2). Bromides, landscapes, G.
Twill; J. P. Loman.

Advertiser 9 November 1906 p.6

(Thankyou to Robert J. Noye and Sandy Barrie for information)

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Photographers of Moonta, Kadina and Wallaroo

The following is a list of photographers and studios active in the towns of Moonta, Kadina and Wallaroo on the Yorke Peninsula up to 1920.

Thomas Adcock
Adelaide Photographic Company
Henry Anson
Thomas Legh Barnard
Bauer & Simmons
A. E. Bauer
William Edward Belcher
H. W. Bell
William Friend Bentley
John H. S. Blood
Frederick Scott Broad
Nicholas Caire
Caire & Gell
Chandler & Co
James Chappell
Edwin Duryea
Townsend Duryea (Snr)
Townsend Duryea (Jnr)
Arthur Francis
Alex Gurr
Haines
George Alfred Hawes
James Howie
A. J. Hunter
Kadina Studio (Thomas Adcock)
Theo. Koerner
John Lloyd
Charles Henry Manning
Marchant & Son (Edwin Walter Marchant and George Lionel Marchant)
George H. Medwell
Matthew Mitchell
F. Nicholls
Stephen Edward Nixon
Nixon & Blood
Arthur J. Page
Henry W. Pell
Rowland Vounder Rodda
B. Simmons
Saul Solomon
Robert Sheppard Stacy
Taylor Street Photographic Studio (Henry Anson)
F. D. Temby
William Thomas
Walter William McLean Thwaites
James Uren
P. Whitford
Yorke's Peninsula Photographic Co

Any additional names of photographers or studios or further information are welcome. Contact with descendants and relations of the above photographers is particularly sought.

Thank you to Robert J. Noye (deceased), Sandy Barrie and Liz Coole for information provided.