The slides are thought to be the first successful batch of photographs of an exploration expedition in Australia and some show the first contact with the indigenous desert people of South Australia’s Far North and Western Australia’s inland.
Adelaide antiquarian bookseller, Michael Treloar, has put the slides, together with original publications of the images, on sale for $250,000.
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