cartes de visite

a selection of cdv photographs
includes the special collection – The Women Of Adelaide

 

The trade in views and portraiture rapidly became highly competitive and successful. The more successful photographic studios had a stream of 'society' clients who required images to send to relatives as well as to have as treasures to fill out home albums.

The photograph conveyed the message that the women had time, wealth and status. The style of portraiture was equal to that being produced back in England and America. They were symbols laden with meaning.  Those that viewed these images, as small as they remain to 21st century eyes, they knew what the CDV represented.

 


 

The city of Adelaide was settled by free people, as opposed to being a convict settlement as the other Australian colonies had been. The colony had welcomed religious refugees from Prussia in the 1840s and by around 1850 had rapidly increased in population to about 15,000.  The city had benefited from money from mining and other ventures and then around the 18702 and 1880s came a boom in wheat. 

With the rise in wealth and public amenity, Adelaide developed its own upper class. These were people who had arrived with connections to society back in England and also included those who had been financially successful in the businesses within the colonies.

It was a time when, as result of money being generated and that was being spent within the colony, the city had a flush of new public and private buildings. And where there was money, such as in the goldfields of the colonies of Victoria, New south Wales and Queensland and over in California, the photographers soon set up.

This series of CDVs represents that era in the 19th century whereby society women were seen as having rank within this far flung colony.

 

The Women of Adelaide in CDVs

Melbourne Photographic Company
Rundle St Adelaide
   
     
 

    Charles Niesche
97 Rundle St, Adelaide
     
 
P. J. Marchant
Waymouth Street, Adelaide
   
     
 
    The Temple of Light
J R Dobson & Co, 22 Rundle St, Adelaide
     
 
    Charles Niesche
97 Rundle St, Adelaide
     
 
Otto Von Hartitzsch
113 Rundle St, Adelaide
   
     
 
    Bond & Co
91 Rundle St Adelaide
     
 
    Charles Niesche
97 Rundle St, Adelaide
     
 
Paris Photographic Company
164 Rundle St, Adelaide
   
     
 
Henry Jones
King William Street, Adelaide
   
     
 
John Hood
Glenelg, South Australia
   
     
 
S. Solomon
School of Photography, 51 Rundle St, Adelaide
 

S. Solomon often used this couch as a key studio prop. The frill on the end has been torn and over several photographs falls apart and finally goes missing.  watch the frill in the next photos

     
 
S. Solomon
School of Photography, 51 Rundle St, Adelaide
   
     
 
    S. Solomon
School of Photography, 51 Rundle St, Adelaide
     
 
    S. Solomon
School of Photography, 51 Rundle St, Adelaide
     
 
    S. Solomon
School of Photography, 51 Rundle St, Adelaide
     
 
Edward Farndell
83 Hindley St, Adelaide
   
     
 
Otto Von Hartitzsch
113 Rundle St, Adelaide
   
     
 
    Edward Farndell
83 Hindley St, Adelaide
     
 

 

Melbourne Photographic Company
16 - 18 Rundle St, Adelaide

 

Geo (George) Freeman: 1842-1910.  The Melbourne Photographic. Company"Freeman has been overlooked in photohistories. He inherited the role of Adelaide's leading studio photographer in the 1870s and was an energetic showman and experimenter with all new processes and trends. A file of his press clippings is held by the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide." reference Gael Newton, Shades of Light Footnote 33

     
 
Otto Von Hartitzsch
127 Rundle Street, Adelaide
   
     
 
Otto Von Hartitzsch
127 Rundle Street, Adelaide
   
     
 
N J Caire
97 Hindley St, Adelaide
   
     
 
James R Dobson, Temple of Light
44 Rundle St, Adelaide
   
     
 
    James R Dobson, Temple of Light
44 Rundle St, Adelaide
     

 
Australian Photographic Company
opposite Town Hall , Adelaide
   
     
 
    Melbourne Photographic Co,
Geo Freeman
16 & 18 Rundle Street , Adelaide
     
 
Melbourne Photographic Co,
Geo Freeman
16 & 18 Rundle Street , Adelaide
   
     
 
Melbourne Photographic Co,
Geo Freeman
16 & 18 Rundle Street , Adelaide
   
     
 
Australian Photographic Company
opposite Town Hall , Adelaide
   
     
 
Melbourne Photographic Co,
Geo Freeman
16 & 18 Rundle Street , Adelaide
   
     
 
Henry Jones
King William Srtreet , Adelaide
   
     
 
P J Marchant
Waymouth Srtreet , Adelaide
   
     
 
E W Marchant
South Australia
   
     
 
E W Marchant
South Australia
   
     
 
    Nixon
Adelaide
     
 
    Charles Niesche
97 Rundle St, Adelaide
     
 
C A Owen
85 Rundle Street, Adelaide
   
     
 
    Stephen Nixon
South Australia
     
 
Paris Photo Company (W J Lott Manager)
164 Rundle Street, Adelaide
   
     
 
    Paris Photo Company (W J Lott Manager)
164 Rundle Street, Adelaide
     
 
P. Schourup
Port Adelaide
   
     
 
    S Solomon
15 Rundle Street, Adelaide
     
 
    S Solomon
15 Rundle Street, Adelaide
     
 
R S Stacy
North Adelaide
   
     
 
unknown photographer    
     
 
James Uren
Main Street, Kapunda
   
     
 
P.J.Marchant
Waymouth Street , Adelaide
   
     
 
Duryea
150 Rundle Street, Adelaide
  This photograph is by one of Townsend Duryea's descendants,
possibly his son.
     
 
Adelaide Photographic Company
S F Crawford, Manager
  from the Hanson Family Albums
     
     
     
 
Tasmanian CDV   J Bishop Osborne
76 Murray St, Hobart Town
     
 
E E Hibling - Johnstone O'Shannessy & Co
7 Collins St East, Melbourne
  CDV from Victoria
     
 
R Dethridge
Bay St, Sandridge
  CDV from Victoria
     
 
an example of a studio that operated in country Victoria
and had a studio on the South Australian border town of Mt Gambier.
  THOs  J J Wyatt
Warrnambool, Portland and Mt Gambier
     
 
Often found in local albums, were photographs taken elsewhere and sent out to the family, or those that were taken while visiting relatives which were then added to the family album on return.   W R Prestwich
155 City Rd London & High Road Tottenham
     
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