Tableau of a white settler attacking an Aboriginal man. Grafton, New South Wales, 1890s.

A$8,000 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Gelatin silver print, in uncommonly large 30 x 26.4 cm format, on original mount blind-stamped Ehlers Dalby, Grafton ; fine condition; in a later glazed frame. Like his better-known compatriot J. W. Lindt before him, German-born Carl Ehlers was a professional photographer who worked in the New South Wales Northern Rivers township of Grafton. He operated his business in Grafton s main commercial thoroughfare, Prince Street, between 1888 and 1902, where he took studio portraits. With his camera he also created an extensive record of the town s civic buildings and private residences, shipping activity along the Clarence River, the floods of 1887 and 1890, the local sugar industry, social events, and the scenery of the region s coast and hinterland. In 1896 he brought in H. G. Dalby about whom little else is known as a partner in the business. Ehlers placed the following announcement in the 6 June 1896 edition of the Clarence and Richmond Examiner : PHOTOGRAPHY. I have this day taken Mr. H. G. DALBY into PARTNERSHIP of the above business, which will hereinafter be carried on as Ehlers and Dalby. In returning thanks to the public for past support I beg to solicit a continuance of the same to the new firm. C. EHLERS. Grafton, 1st June, 1896. The firm continued under this name up until around May, 1902 its last advertisement appeared in the Examiner on 10 May that year. Ehlers then left Australia and returned to Germany. Probably inspired by Lindt s celebrated studio portraits and t

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