Professional Scottish photographer, who owned a studio in Sydney's CBD in the late nineteenth century, selling his photographs and photographic equipment, before moving to Melbourne in 1870. There is some confusion as to whether Robert had a brother named Richard, also a photographer, or whether they are the same person.
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The Biographical material on Robert Stewart will be enhanced by a link to the online collection of 325 "Stewart & Co." portraits taken by the photographic studio set up by Robert stewart in 1871 in Melbourne Victoria. -
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The State Library of Victoria has an online collection of 325 photographs taken by the Melbourne photographic studio "Stewart & Co" set up by Robert Stewart in 1871 and later managed in the early 1880's by Andrew Barrie, then owned by Andrew Barrie from 1886. The collection is catalogued as "Stewart & Co ., photographer." in the "Pictures and Photographs" SLV Collection, and can be viewed online at: http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vl(freeText0)=%20Stewart%20+%26+%20Co%20.%2c+photographer.&vl(10247183UI0)=creator&vl(29168045UI1)=all_items&vl(1UIStartWith0)=exact&fn=search&tab=default_tab&mode=Basic&vid=MAIN&scp.scps=scope%3a(PICS)&ct=lateralLinking
The 325 photographs were donated from various sources:
identified under these specific Series names:
John Etkins collection. (51)
Singleton Family albums. (19)
Holloway collection. (18)
Dan Clifton collection. (18)
Photographer's file. (9)
Wilson P. Evans collection. (8)
Cabinet photographs, cartes-de-visite and views of Stawell, ca. 1865-ca. 1890. (7)
Mollie Turner Shaw's collection of photographs. (6)
Theatre portraits collection. (5)
Madden family collection. (4)
Bush family photographic collection. (4)
Coghill Family collection. (4)
Foenander collection of cartes-de-visite. (4)
Featherstone family collection. (3)
Nesta McKellar collection of photographs. (3)
Fetherston family collection. (3)
Alice Bale Collection. (2)
Malcolm Brodie shipping collection. (2)
John Boyd Watson family photograph collection. (2)
Chomley family collection. (2) -
09/05/2016 16:15
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