LINDT, John William (1845-1926, photographer). 12 fine albumen photographic prints by J. W. Lindt, 3 taken on board H.M.S. Dart, the remainder of scenes in New Guinea, mounted in an album. PRESENTATION COPY. Please see the full description below.

LINDT, John William (1845-1926, landscape and ethnographic photographer). 12 fine albumen photographic prints by John William Lindt comprising three taken on board the H.M.S. Dart and the remainder of indigenous people and scenes in New Guinea, each mounted on thick card and captioned in manuscript by the photographer, in a contemporary oblong 4to cloth album, gilt edges, the upper cover lettered in gilt, "Australian Scenery. I. W. Lindt. Photographer, 7 Collins Street, East Melbourne", the albumen prints 152 x 206mm., [1885]. PRESENTATION COPY, the front pastedown of the album inscribed, "To Captain Field, H.M.S. Dart, in remembrance of the pleasant trip from Dinner Island to Sydney, J. W. Lindt, 23 [?]Sept. 1885." The albumen prints are captioned in manuscript by Lindt as follows: "On the job, H.M.S. 'Dart'"; "On board H.M.S. 'Dart'"; "Leisure H.M.S. 'Dart'"; "[?]Herepunu Women on the Market Place at Kalo (Kemp Witch R.N.G.)"; "Tupuselai nr Port Moresby (New Guinea)"; "Lakatoi or Motu Trading Vessel, Port Moresby"; "Koiari Chiefs, Saddera Martera, N.G."; "Tree Houses, Koiari District, N. G."; "Ka Kalo Creek, Kapa Kapa, N.G."; "Digaragara Is. from Cape Ventenat Normanby Is. Scene of Captn. Miller's Murder"; "Dinner Island, China Straits, N.G." and "Native Women, Port Moresby, N.G." In addition, the New Guinea prints are inscribed lower left "(Copyright)". "John William Lindt ... was born at Frankfurt on Main ... At 17 he ran away to sea and joined a Dutch sailing ship. He deserted at Brisbane ... and then worked in a photographic studio ... Using the wet-plate process he photographed the Clarence River district and its Aboriginals, producing albums in 1875 and 1876. He then ... went to Melbourne where he opened a studio in Collins Street. He soon won repute for his society, theatre and landscape portraits. In 1880 he photographed the capture of the Kelly gang at Glenrowan ... In 1885 Lindt went with Sir Peter Scratchley's expedition to the Protectorate of British New Guinea as official photographer. He presented an album of his New Guinea photographs to the Indian and Colonial Exhibition in London in 1886. He went to Europe to publish his Picturesque New Guinea (London, 1887) ... He was elected a judge at the international photographic exhibition at Frankfurt, received a gold medal from the Photographic Association of Vienna and became a member of the Royal Geographical Society, London" (from the Australian Dictionary of Biography). The recipient of this presentation copy was Captain Arthur Mostyn Field (1855-1950), an officer in the Royal Navy who rose to the rank of Admiral. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1905 in recognition of his work as a "distinguished Hydrographic Surveyor" chiefly in Australia, the Pacific Islands and the South China Seas.