Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Accession Number DAX0938
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original whole plate negative
Maker Darge Photographic Company
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Broadmeadows
Date made c 15 November 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Group portrait of members of 1st Reinforcements, 29th Battalion, Lieut Booth [possibly 2nd Lieutenant Eric Robert Booth], Officer Commanding. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a concession to take photographs at the Broadmeadows and Seymour army camps during the First World War. In the 1930s, the Australian War Memorial purchased the original glass negatives from Algernon Darge, along with the studio registers. The registers contain brief details, usually a surname or unit name, for each negative.