Portrait of the Right Hon. A. Fisher [picture]
- Bib ID:
- 1513194
- Format:
- Picture
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. PIC Drawer PM 16042 #PIC/PIC/6606/1-2 copy
- Description:
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- [ca. 1912]
- 2 photographs : sepia toned ; 38.2 x 30.2 cm. and smaller
- Biography/History:
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Andrew Fisher was born in 1862. Australian politician and prime minister (1908-9, 1910-13, 1914-15). He emigrated to Queensland in 1885 from Scotland. He gradually moved from mining into trade union activity and politics, entering the Queensland State Assembly in 1893 and the first federal parliament in 1901. He was Australian Labor Party leader in 1907, then prime minister. At the start of World War 1 he made the dramatic promise to support the war effort 'to the last man and the last shilling'. He later became Australian high commissioner in London (1916-21). He died in 1928.
- Notes:
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- Title from inscription below the photograph.
- Condition: Good.
- Inscriptions: "Right Hon. A. Fisher P.C." --In ink lower centre on mount.
- Two copies of the same image.
- PIC Drawer PM 16042 #PIC/PIC/6606/1-2 copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-136656158
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Federal politicians
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Photograph
- Published status:
- Unpublished
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