Typical Antipodean

Who was the artist for the studio backdrop?

Title: Frank Long, the discoverer of Zeehan silver fields
Creator(s):Anson Bros

Date: 18–

Description: 1photograph : b&w ; 16 X 10 cm.

Notes: Exact size of image: 152 X 93 mm.,

Title inscribed in pencil on verso in unknown hand.,

Frank Long standing on his head in front of a painted studio backdrop.

Subjects:Long, Frank – fl. 1882

Format: photograph

Location: Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts

ADRI: AUTAS001125882472

Pampoleterion: unique to Tasmania

Ask Google and Yahoo what a pampoleterion is, and just ONE result is returned – this photograph of a shop held at the Archives Office of Tasmania. The same photograph is catalogued online again at the State Library of Tasmania.

Caption:
Shop – ‘M A Harding. Pampoleterion’. Window shows drapery and general wares. Unidentified location

Reference: PH40/1/345
Title:Shop
Subject:buildings, draperies, shops
Locality: not identified
Date:1880

Tasmanians like to think there are many unique aspects to their island, and they should proudly claim this old neologism (new word) because it is truly unique. It has stumped Google. How’s that!