Melbourne & Surrounding Country: Lindt's 1890 Photograph Collection

An impressive album of photographs assembled for H.J.Younger in 1890. Titled 'Vol.1. Melbourne & the Surrounding Country' with 87 images of Melbourne, Fernshaw, Geelong, Bendigo, Ballarat, Sandhurst, Aborigines and several of Malta. 87 photographs, a number identified as being by Lindt. Notes: John William Lindt was born in Germany in 1845 and left home at age 17 to join a Dutch sailing ship. By 1863 Lindt had arrived in Brisbane and soon after found work in a photographic studio in Grafton. He relocated to Melbourne in the late 1870's and opened a studio on Collins Street. In 1880 he photographed the capture of the Kelly gang at Glenrowan as well as much of the Melbourne streetscape and landscape. After gaining a positive reputation as a photographer, Lindt accompanied Sir Peter Scratchley as the official photographer on the expedition to the Protectorate of British New Guinea in 1885. In 1886, Lindt presented his New Guinea photographs to the Indian and Colonial Exhibition in London and soon after received a gold medal from the Photographic Association of Vienna.