amateur photographer employed the professional photographer, Augustus Baker Peirce , to accompany him on an expedition from Bendigo to Swan Hill and the Serpentine River, Victoria, in January 1863. Both took photographs of Aborigines encountered on the way. Creelman, said Peirce, 'was greatly interested in aboriginal Australian life’; their adventures among local tribes are colourfully, if unreliably, recounted in Peirce’s book. The two parted company at Swan Hill, 'owing to an athletic contest’ in which Peirce knocked down his employer. Creelman kept the camera and henceforth presumably took all the photographs. None are known.
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- 1992
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