REAL PHOTO CARDS by ANDERSON DARGAVILLE

[Ross Ewington]

Do you have any real photo views by Anderson Dargaville?? .... they
have this handstamp on the back:

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Chris Long states "Pharmacist, Queenstown. Published West Coast views, 1920s-1940s"
and that's 'it' so if you can add to this information that will be great to post here too!

I have just the one card which I would say dates from the mid-1930s.

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The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery has some material by Dargaville

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[Mike]

Two Dargaville items.
Cannot add much further information at the moment. Robert Ralph is listed in 1936 / 1951 as a chemist also in Queenstown. Also listed in 1936 / 1951 is T Nankivell photographer. I have examples of both these gentleman's postcards.

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Drop down type card, with West Coast views, mainly Queenstown area but also a couple of Hobart views. My guess c1940

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Gormanston and the Linda Valley. Postally unused.

[Ross Ewington]

I have found this mention of Dargaville in The Mercury from November 29th, 1933 which states
in part ... "[Dargaville] is shortly to leave Queenstown to take up residence at Penguin.

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I have also found a portrait of Dargaville (with his wife?) held by the PENGUIN HISTORY GROUP who also
hold a "display folder containing 12 pages of Memories of Tasmania from Burges (Port Sorell) to Mt Lyell by Anderson Dargaville and two photos (i.e. one other) of the Dargaville family"
http://eheritage.statelibrary.tas.gov.a ... ImageNum=1

[Mike]

The list of scenes in the Dargaville drop down card are as follows

Side 1.
Gormanston. (This is the same view as per my photo card above which I called Gormanston and Linda Vally)
Mount Lyell Reduction Works, Queenstown.
Smelters, Queenstown.
Queenstown.
Queenstown and Mount Owen.
Empire Hotel, Queenstown.

Side 2
The Hobart Bridge.
Hobart.
GPO and Flankin Square, Hobart.
Plenty Bridge, Hobart - Queenstown Road.
Hobart - Queentown Road. (This is the same view as Ross's post above.)
Queentown - Gormanston Road.

It makes me think that the other views could exist as real photo postcards ?

[Mike]

Found another view of Queenstown. This view does not appear in the drop down card scanned above.

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[Mike]

This advertisement appeared in Tasmania for Tourists and Tasmanians by A.R.Dyer 1933. Printed by J Walch & Sons, Hobart Tasmania.

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[Mike]

Not a postcard but a good hand tinted photograph mounted on board by Anderson Keith Dargaville. c1930? Notice the colour of a very polluted King River.

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