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Captain Samuel White Sweet 1 May 1825 – 4 January 1886     Captain Samuel White Sweet was an English sea captain who settled in Australia in 1864, and was involved in the early colonization of the Northern Territory. After the grounding of his ships Gulnare and Wallaroo, for both of which he was held culpable, he turned his interest in photography from a serious hobby and part-time occupation to a profession. Sweet was a pioneer of Australian landscape photography as an art form, and kept abreast of technical advances in the medium. The above sourced from Wikipedia - click here   Listing in Australian Dictionary of Biography - click here Thesis available from Adelaide University - click here Photo-Web collection page on Captain Sweet   return to table of contents