From South Australia Government

19th Century Photographs by Captain Samuel Sweet

Created 16/10/2024

Updated 16/10/2024

These photographs (approximately 920) were taken by Captain Samuel Sweet, sea captain and photographer of colonial South Australia. Sweet began working as a photographer in Adelaide in 1867. In 1875 he retired from the sea and established his own photographic studio in Adelaide. He took photographs around South Australia, developing them in a horse-drawn darkroom. Sweet is known as the colony's foremost landscape photographer of the 1870s.

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Title 19th Century Photographs by Captain Samuel Sweet
Language aar
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/28baf505-4c5f-4e45-9fae-2605ee1cf7c1
Contact Point
South Australian Governments
DataSA@sa.gov.au
Reference Period 01/01/1865 - 31/12/1902
Geospatial Coverage SA0062407: South Australia
Data Portal data.gov.au

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