Keast Burke collection on the history of photography [picture]
- Bib ID:
- 3044546
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Burke, Keast, 1896-1974
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. PIC LOC C1-C10 copy
- Related Online Resources:
- Finding aid at National Library of Australia
- Description:
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- ca. 1850-ca. 1950
- ca. 1000 photographs : b&w ; 24 x 28.9 cm. or smaller.
- 61 negatives : acetate, b&w ; 10 x 12 cm. and smaller.
- 4 slides : glass, lantern, col., wood ; slides 7.3 x 16.2 cm., in frame 10.2 x 17.8 cm.
- 2 invitiations, 9 brochures, 1 poster, 1 newsletter, 2 photocopies, 1 serial, 1 newspaper, newspaper clippings, 2 envelopes, 1 notebook, 2 booklets
- Summary:
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Keast Burke collected examples of all types of photographic processes and equipment, and works by Australian photographers. The collection includes specimens of daguerreotype and ambrotype photography; lantern slides; albums of photographs; stereographs; negatives and glass negatives; experimental processes; portraits; landscape and pictorialist photographs; as well as cameras and other equipment.
Also includes a notebook with description of lantern slides, prints, negatives and scrapbook cuttings ; Booklet for a photographic exhibition in Denmark: Den IX Internationale udstilling af fotografisk kunst i Danmark, Charlottenborg i København, 1957 ; Booklet for photographic exhibition in Paris: XIXe salon international de photographie : du 3 au 14 octobre 1924 / organisé par la Société française de photographie et le Photo-Club de Paris.
- Notes:
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- Title from acquisitions documentation.
- PIC LOC C1-C10 copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-141546959
- Cited In:
- Burmester, v. 2, p.265-266.
- Has Sub-series:
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- Has subcollection: Daguerreotype portraits collection of men and women, 1840-1850
- Has subcollection: Freeman Studio staff portraits, Sydney
- Has subcollection: Carte de visite portraits of adults and children, Orange, New South Wales, ca.1883
- Has subcollection: Collection of ambrotype portraits
- Has subcollection: Collection of portraits and coastal sceneries
- Has subcollection: Collection of models posing for fashion magazines, ca. 1960s
- Has subcollection: Lantern slide collection, 1860-1869
- Has subcollection: Royal Easter Show judge's medallion and related ephemera, 1959-1961
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Unable to determine date of publication or creation
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- Material type:
- Photograph
- Published status:
- Unpublished
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