"Chief + Wife" Solomon Islands - Henry King (1855?-1923) - SydneSydney
Glass, masking paper
8.2 x 8.2 cm

"Chief + Wife" Solomon Islands

A Lantern Slide of a "Chief + Wife" Solomon Islands
Henry King

Top - hand written ""Chief + Wife" Solomon Islands
Bottom - hand written - "H. King Sydney"

Henry King (1855?-1923) was an English-born Australian photographer, known for his studies of Australian Aboriginal people and his views of Sydney. King was one of Australia's most significant early photographers, described by the Australian Photographic Review as "stand[ing] high in the esteem of the craft"