Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Portrait of photographer Algernon Darge behind the wheel of his car outside his Australasian Studio in the Broadmeadows camp. Some of the civilians with Darge may be photographers who worked for him at the camp. Darge's car featured a skull and crossbones on the radiator cap. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had a permit 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 photographers' notebooks. The notebooks contain brief details, usually a surname or unit name, for each negative. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.