Melbourne based colonial surveyor who produced photographic portraits of the Indigenous Australian cricket team before they toured England in 1867. Some were in their cricket whites, but most were posed with weapons such as boomerangs.
Information from Andrew Dawson a descendant of surveyor William Dawson, via Alan Elliott the biographer of Walter Woodbury in Australia email to Gael newton from Elliott 26/02/13 -
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