ca. 1000 photographs : b&w ; 24 x 28.9 cm. or smaller.61 negatives : acetate, b&w ; 10 x 12 cm. and smaller.4 slides : glass, lantern, col., wood ; slides 7.3 x 16.2 cm., in frame 10.2 x 17.8 cm.2 invitiations, 9 brochures, 1 poster, 1 newsletter, 2 photocopies, 1 serial, 1 newspaper, newspaper clippings, 2 envelopes, 1 notebook, 2 booklets
Abstract Or Scope
Keast Burke collected examples of all types of photographic processes and equipment, and works by Australian photographers. The collection includes specimens of daguerreotype and ambrotype photography; lantern slides; albums of photographs; stereographs; negatives and glass negatives; experimental processes; portraits; landscape and pictorialist photographs; as well as cameras and other equipment.