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19th Century Photographs by Townsend Duryea

Created 26/06/2025

Updated 26/06/2025

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The photographs (approximately 165) were taken by Townsend Duryea, a noted photographer of colonial South Australia. Duryea was active in South Australia 1855-1875. He and his brother were the first known photographers to work in areas of South Australia outside Adelaide. Duryea is particularly known for his panoramas of Adelaide and portraits of surviving original European colonists of South Australia.

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Title 19th Century Photographs by Townsend Duryea
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/97f60b3e-9b50-4cc2-9960-73288d076c51
Remote Last Updated 29/08/2019
Contact Point
State Library of South Australia
DataSA@sa.gov.au
Reference Period 01/01/1856 - 31/12/1887
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on South Australia Government "19th Century Photographs by Townsend Duryea". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/19th-century-photographs-by-townsend-duryea