Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Copy studio portrait of 3134 Private (Pte) Edwin Archibald Imrie, 57th Battalion, of Seymour, Victoria. Pte Imrie was killed in action on 17 October 1917. This portrait was copied for Mrs Imrie of High Street, Seymour, c December 1918; family lore has that it was originally produced in Scotland and a copy sent back to his mother. 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 photographers' notebooks. The notebooks contain brief details, usually a surname or unit name, for each negative.