Photographs and Pictures

There are over 2,000 photographs. Many are of Australian interest and as well there are specialised collections from overseas. Some of the highlights are:-

• Edward Colson’s album of photographs from the first European crossing of the Simpson Desert, 1936, several years before C T Madigan.  Some of the photographs of the camels walking through belly high vegetation are very evocative.
• Elder Scientific Expedition
• Two albums of photographs of South West Pacific and New Guinea, 1880s, and several of Northern Territory Aboriginal tribes.
• Baron Raimund von Stillfried. An album of photographs of Japan in the 1880s.
• Sir Francis Younghusband’s photographs of Tibet, 1903/04.  Younghusband lost these on the return from Tibet. The undeveloped roll of film was purchased by a soldier  c1918 and later acquired by an Adelaide collector. The Society arranged for a copy for itself. Location of original negatives not now known.

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	Image from the collection - the State Library building in 1890.
	One of a series of 8 sketches by Lieutenant Samuel Gurney Cresswell, of the HMS Investigator, during the discovery of the North West passage.
	When John MacDouall-Stuart's arrived at the North coast of Australia (Van Diemen's Gulf) he blazed this tree to record his accomplishment.  The tree was painted by Annie E. Billiatt from a photograph taken by Police Inspector Paul Foelsche in 1883.
	Portrait of Colonel William Light by George A J Webb, 1904.