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EARLY NT PHOTOGRAPHERS & ARTISTS
Port Darwin tree blazed 1866
The NT has been fortunate to host some of the finest artists (Westal), cartographers (Flinders & Roe) and photographers, going back to Hamilton & Hake at Escape Cliffs in 1866. It was the immediate precursor to settlement at Port Darwin which has been photographed throughout it's entire history.
The names of Captain Sweet and Inspector Paul Foelsche are paramount but a tendency to allot any early image to these two has diminished other valuable contributions from such as Florenz Bleeser. In the interim many Sweet & Foelsche images are presented on the Beagle Cove page.
The names of Captain Sweet and Inspector Paul Foelsche are paramount but a tendency to allot any early image to these two has diminished other valuable contributions from such as Florenz Bleeser. In the interim many Sweet & Foelsche images are presented on the Beagle Cove page.
Florenz August Karl Bleeser (1871 - 1942)
Florenz August Karl Bleeser (1871 - 1942) worked at the Telegraph Office. He was a celebrated botanist and as a photographer he had a range of interests including ships & young Larrakia women. He captured some of the most insightful images of Darwin around the turn of the 20th century. He is best known for his graphic record of the 1897 cyclone.
J. J. McInerney
SLSA B41929 c1890 ‘Dinah Beach - N.T. Aborigines grouped on the beach. Stokes Hill in background’ c1890 - It is Kitchener Bay from the Stokes Hill side looking across to the Gulnare Jetty below Fort Hill
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Jetty, Port Darwin SLSA B 9436
Jetty, Port Darwin. Length of approach of the "T" shaped jetty is 418 feet, length of head is 558 feet, depth at low water is 23-28 feet, rise of the tide is 25 feet. A large steam boat is tied up at the jetty