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Silver albumen print photograph (210 x 150 mm) in original glazed frame (390 x 440 mm). Printed caption on mount above image: "Colac Regatta, December 1886. Senior Eight (Won by Corio Bay Rowing Club)"; the crew are identified in printed captions below image, including "C. Brownlow (Stroke)" (Brownlow is seated, second from left, his hands on the shoulders of the coxwain). Charles Brownlow (1861-1924) played with the Geelong Football Club in the VFA from 1880-1891, so this photograph was taken at the height of his playing career. At the time, Brownlow was also club secretary (he held this position from 1885-1923). The Brownlow Medal, first awarded in 1924, was named in his honour. It is awarded annually to the Best and Fairest player in the Australian Football League.

WARD, Edward Wolstoneholme (attributed) # 695 Stereoscopic albumen print photograph. Each image 73 x 72 mm. Inscribed in ink in period hand verso: "Sydney Cove, Australia. No. 1." For an identical view, titled "Fortifications, Dawes Battery looking east", see "Masterpieces of Australian Photography" (Josef Lebovic Gallery, 1989), pl. 47. Ward was an amateur photographer active in Sydney 1856-60 (Lebovic & Cahill, p 32). An extremely early and important photographic image of Sydney Harbour.

Carbon print photograph (305 x 460 mm) in original glazed frame (470 x 595 mm), c 1930. Titled in pen on mount below image; back of frame inscribed in pencil in period hand: "Photo by William King". A spectacular composition of the silhouetted Melbourne skyline at twilight, looking west.