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Names

Name PrimaryKruger, Johan Friedrich Carl (AA 566)

Name AlternateJohan Friedrich Carl Kruger (AA 566)

IDs

ID LocalAA 566

ID Urihttp://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/archives/collections

Descriptions

Brief DescriptionThe South Australian Museum collection comprises 12 photographs of Aboriginal people in Victoria bound in one album. Eleven of these prints are studio portraits of Aboriginal men, women and children and one print of an Aboriginal family. Each print is mounted on an individual page with titles below the image.

Full DescriptionJohan Friedrich Carl (Fred) Kruger was a professional photographer born on 18 April 1831 in Berlin. Kruger arrived in Australia in the early 1860s and in 1866 he opened a photographic studio at 133 Cardigan Street, Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria. In 1866 Kruger took the first group photograh of the Aboriginal cricket team who later played in England in 1868. Kruger was commissioned in 1877 by the Victorian Board for the protection of Aborigines to produce an album of carte-de-visite portraits of the Aboriginal people at the Coranderrk Aboriginal Mission Station. Fred Kruger died in Surrey Hills, Melbourne on 18 February 1888.

RightsThe Museum Board of South Australia

AccessFor all South Australian Museum Archive and Australian Aboriginal Family History requests please contact the Archives Collection Manager or Aboriginal Family History Officer by post, fax or email with relevant research and contact details. Once your request has been received, you will be contacted to discuss the procedures required to process your application and make arrangements to view the collection items. Access to the South Australian Museum Archives and Reading Room must be organised a minimum of two weeks in advance, as access is by appointment only.

Subjects

scotAboriginal peoples; Missions; Photographers; Photography; Portraits

aptAboriginal peoples (Australians); Photo albums; Photographers; Photography; Portrait photography; Portraits; Welfare establishments

localAlbumen prints

pontAlbumen prints; Photograph albums; Portrait photographs

person_orgJohan Friedrich Carl (Fred) Kruger; Victorian Board for the protection of Aborigines

Coverage Spatial

TextCoranderrk Aboriginal Mission Station; Victoria

Coverage Temporal

From1877

To1877

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Dates

Date Record Updated2012-05-30 23:41

Date Created in MME2011-03-18 18:13