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19th Century Photographs by Captain Samuel Sweet

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

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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://data.gov.au/data/dataset/28baf505-4c5f-4e45-9fae-2605ee1cf7c1
Remote Last Updated 24/01/2022
Contact Point
State Library of South Australia
DataSA@sa.gov.au
Reference Period 01/01/1865 - 31/12/1902
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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    135.866666,
    -29.383333
  ],
  "type": "Point"
}
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This dataset was originally found on South Australia Government "19th Century Photographs by Captain Samuel Sweet". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/19th-century-photographs-by-captain-samuel-sweet