| Description |
1 picture : sepia ; 11 x 7 cm |
| Summary |
"As a partner in a Scottish firm seeking investment in Australian pastoral property, Niel Black (1804-1880) arrived in Adelaide in 1839. He soon made his way overland to the Western District of Port Phillip, where he purchased 43,000 acres near Lake Terang. He named the property Glemormiston after one of the partners in the investment firm. After having acquired several other huge properties in the Western District on behalf of his firm, the partnership was dissolved in 1868 and Black himself kept the rights to a large property in Mount Noorat. Black was regarded as one of the wealthiest and most respected sheep breeders in the colony, as well as acting as a Member of the Legislative Assembly." -- Douglas Stewart Fine Books blurb |
| Notes |
A copy of this portrait is held in the collection of the Victorian Parliamentary Library |
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Albumen print photograph, cart de visite format, 102 x 61 mm., verso imprinted Batchelder's, 41 Collins St. East Melbourne |
| Issuing Body |
Condition: It is fine condition with rich tonal range; the mount with two pin holes at upper and lower margins, not affecting the image |
| Subject |
Black, Niel, 1804-1880.
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Farmers -- Glenormiston -- Victoria -- Australia
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Immigrants -- Australia -- Victoria -- Western District
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| Genre/Form |
Pictures.
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| Author |
Batchelders
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