Established in 1854. The photographer Perez Batchelder was operating as Batchelder & Co. in Australia, 1854-1895, Melbourne.
Batchelder & Company
Artist unknown :Hon Edward Cohen, Comissioner of Customs. From a photograph by Batcheld...
Date: 1869
From: Pope, James Henry 1837-1913 :Scrap book [1860s]
Reference: E-043-q-028-1
Description: Half length portrait, full face; member of the Macpherson ministry Extended Title - Hon Edward Cohen, Commissioner of Customs Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) stuck to page of scrapbook.. Physical Description: Wood engraving, 130 x 110 mm stuck to page 275 x 215 mm
Artist unknown :Hon J A Macpherson, Chief Secretary. From a photograph by Batchelder. [...
Date: 1869
From: Pope, James Henry 1837-1913 :Scrap book [1860s]
Reference: E-043-q-028-2
Description: Half length portrait, full face Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) stuck to page of scrapbook.. Physical Description: Wood engraving, 122 x 95 mm stuck to page 275 x 215 mm
Artist unknown :Hon Francis Longmore, Minister of Railways. From photograph by Batcheld...
Date: 1869
From: Pope, James Henry 1837-1913 :Scrap book [1860s]
Reference: E-043-q-028-3
Description: Half length portrait, full face; member of the Macpherson ministry Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) stuck to page of scrapbook.. Physical Description: Wood engraving, 124 x 103 mm stuck to page 275 x 215 mm
Artist unknown :Hon John Thomas Smith, Minister of Lands. From photograph by Batchelder...
Date: 1869
From: Pope, James Henry 1837-1913 :Scrap book [1860s]
Reference: E-043-q-028-4
Description: Half length portrait, full face; member of the Macpherson ministry Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) stuck to page of scrapbook.. Physical Description: Wood engraving, 123 x 110 mm stuck to page 275 x 215 mm
Grosse, Frederick, 1828-1894 :The late John Pascoe Fawkner. From a photograph by Batche...
Date: 1869
From: Pope, James Henry 1837-1913 :Scrap book [1860s]
Reference: E-043-q-027
Description: Half length portrait, full face, wearing a suit and a beret with a tassle. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Recto - beneath image - Additional title in ink - The Founder of Melbourne, Victoria Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) stuck to page of scrapbook.. Physical Description: Wood engraving, stuck to page 275 x 215 mm
Frances Hodgkins Estate :Photographs relating to the Hodgkins family
By: Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947; Bartlett, Robert Henry, 1842-1911; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Morris, John Richard, 1854-1919; Johnstone & Company; Batchelder & Company; Kinsey, William Henry Scott, 1860-1931
Reference: PAColl-0880
Description: Photographs of the Hodgkins family, taken by various photographers. Portraits include Alexander Garrick, Mr and Mrs W M Hodgkins, and Mrs Rich. Other images are of gallery walls covered in paintings (possibly the 1869 Fine Arts Exhibition held in Dunedin), a young boy in a striped shirt and hat, an elderly man in breeches and leg warmers (possibly Switzerland), and scenes in Venice, taken by unidentified photographers. These were left with several William Mathew Hodgkins sketchbooks acquired by the Alexander Turnbull Library in March 1977 Quantity: 19 b&w original photographic print(s) albumen, silver gelatin.
Blundell album 1
Date: [Circa 1870s-1890s]
From: Blundell, John Barraud, 1904-1975 : Photograph albums
By: Clarke, William Henshaw, 1831-1910; Batchelder & Company; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)
Reference: PA1-q-036
Description: Album of cartes de visite and cabinet cards of unidentified portraits. Photographed circa 1870s to 1890s, by various photographers including W H Clarke (Lambton Quay, Wellington), Wrigglesworth & Binns (Willis Street, Wellington), and Batchelder & Co. (Melbourne). Most of the photographer's names are hidden. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Cartes de visite in decorated album with clasp, 275 x 220 mm
Photographs relating to Frances Hodgkins, her family, and her art
Date: [ca 1890-1980s]
From: McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995: Photographs
By: Batchelder & Company
Reference: PAColl-5030-7
Description: Photographs of Frances Hodgkins and her family and friends, and approximately 100 photographs of her paintings. Quantity: 173 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: Many of the photographs in this box are prints from negatives that are also held in this collection - see negatives at 1/2-010509, 1/2-010511 etc.
John Alexander Gilfillan and (daughter?), Melbourne, Australia
Date: ca 1850s
From: Tesla Studios :Negatives of Wanganui and district taken by Alfred Martin, Frank Denton and Mark Lampe (Tesla Studios)
By: Batchelder & Company
Reference: 1/2-070343-G
Description: John Alexander Gilfillan and (daughter?), circa 1855, photographed by Batchelder & Co of Melbourne, Australia. This copy negative made by Tesla Studios of Wanganui. Inscriptions: Below original print: Batchelder & Co Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative
Batchelder & Co fl 1867-1895 : Lady Bowen d 1893
Date: 1867 - 1893
By: Batchelder & Company
Reference: PA2-0240
Description: The person depicted in this photograph was identified by a Library staff member in 1995. The person depicted in this photograph was identified in the Facial Recognition project results as a likely match to the person depicted in photograph PA2-0253. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Processing information: The photograph described in this record was included in a Library Facial Recognition project conducted in 2018. The project used an open source Python algorithm and verification by staff to find facial matches across a dataset of digitised carte-de-visite photographs held by the Library.
Batchelder and Co, fl 1854-1895 (Firm, Melbourne, Australia) :Justice Chapman
Date: [187-?]
By: Batchelder & Company
Reference: PA2-0236
Description: Justice Henry Samuel Chapman. Seated portrait. Photograph taken circa 1870s by Batchelder and Company of Melbourne, Australia. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 9.4 x 6 cm, on mount
Batchelder & Company: Portrait of Caroline Chevalier, née Wilkie
Date: 1867 - 1895
From: Haast family: Collection
By: Batchelder & Company
Reference: PA2-0238
Description: Inscriptions: Verso - Mrs N Chevalier fancy dress Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Batchelder & Company: Portrait of Giuseppe Biagi
Date: 1867 - 1895
From: Haast family: Collection
By: Batchelder & Company
Reference: PA2-0235
Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Batchelder & Co fl 1867-1895 : William Mathew Hodgkins 1833-1898
Date: 1833 - 1898
By: Batchelder & Company
Reference: PA2-0239
Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: From Field-Hodgkins MS.
Batchelder & Company : Portrait of Ellis Rowan
Date: 1881-1887
By: Batchelder & Company
Reference: PA3-0012
Description: Title supplied by Library. Inscriptions: Verso - 1881-7 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Processing information: Description changed 14 June 2023 following information provided by researcher. Previous title: Batchelder & Co (Melbourne) fl 1867-1895 :Portrait of unidentified woman.
Batchelder & Company: Portrait of unidentified man
Date: 1867 - 1895
From: Haast family: Collection
By: Batchelder & Company
Reference: PA2-0242
Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Diamantine du Romas
Date: 1856
By: Batchelder & Company
Reference: 1/2-091520-F
Description: Diamantine Du Romas. Photograph taken by Batchelder & Co. of Melbourne. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Batchelder & Co fl 1867-1895 : Fairfax Fenwick fl 1867-1895
Date: 1867 - 1895
By: Batchelder & Company
Reference: PA2-0241
Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Batchelder & Company: Portrait of Nicholas Chevalier
Date: 1867 - 1895
From: Haast family: Collection
By: Batchelder & Company
Reference: PA2-0237
Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Album of official and family portraits
Date: [ca 1860s-1880s]
From: Johnston, Henrietta Charlotte, 1814-1878: Photograph albums relating to the Johnston family
By: Baillie, Gordon, 1827-1875; Barraud, Herbert Rose, 1845-1896; Bartlett, Robert Henry, 1842-1911; Batchelder & Company; Batt & Richards (Firm); Carnell, Samuel, 1832-1920; Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901; De Jongh, Edouard, 1823-1886; Elliott & Fry (Firm); Ferranti, Cesare Zani de, 1831-1903; Freeman Brothers & Prout (Firm); Grillet & Cie (Firm); Johnstone, O'Shannessy & Company; Keith, William, 1829-1883; Newcombe, Charles Thomas, 1830-1912?; Notman, William, 1826-1891; Ralston, William, 1841-1911; Sarony, Oliver Francois Xavier, 1820-1879; Stuart, John, 1831-1907; Swan & Wrigglesworth (Firm); Swan, George Henry, 1833-1913; Thomson, John, 1837-1921; W & D Downey (Firm); Webster, Hartley, -1906; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm); Wrigglesworth, James Dacie, 1836-1906
Reference: PA1-q-1184
Description: Family photograph album thought to have belonged to Henrietta Charlotte Johnston, wife of John Johnston. Images are chiefly photographic portraits of family members and public figures, including Queen Victoria and her consort Prince Albert, in carte de viste and cabinet card format, taken circa 1860s-1880s by a range of photographers. Also includes two photographs depicting building exteriors in landscape settings. Some of the portraits are partially hand-coloured. Many of the subjects are named in pencil captions inscribed on album pages at a later date, with some of this information most likely taken from inscriptions on reverse of photographic mounts. Includes portraits of Sir William Fox and Sir Edward Stafford. Photographer and studio imprints include: - [John] Stuart, 120 Buchanan Street, Glasgow. - W & D Downey, 9 Eldon Square, Newcastle on Tyne. - Wrigglesworth & Binns, Wellington. - W H Davis, Wellington. - Elliott & Fry, 55 Baker Street, Portman Square, W[est London]. - R H Bartlett, Auckland. - De Jongh, "Photographe a Beau Séjour d'en Bas", Lausanne. - Barraud & Jerrard, 96 Gloucester Place, Portman Sq[ua]r[e] W[est] London. - Ralston & Sons, 73 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. - Johnstone, O'Shannessy & Co., 3 Bourke Street East, Melbourne. - Grillet Jne. "Photographe du Roi" S[ant]a Lucia, No. 28, Naples. - J D Wrigglesworth, Wellington. - W Notman, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto & Halifax. - H Webster, Queen Street, Auckland. - S. Carnell, Napier. - T & J Holroyd, Esplanade House, Harrogate [Thomas and James Holroyd]. - Sarony & Co. Sarony Square, Scarborough. - Batt & Richards, Wellington. - G. Baillie, Cuba Street, Wellington. - J. Thomson, Rosslyn. - Swan & Wrigglesworth, Wellington. - G H Swan, Wellington. - Freeman & Prout, 141 Castlereagh St, Sydney. - H X Harcq, 36 Chaussee d'Ixelles, Ixelles. - Batchelder's, 41 Collins Street East, Melbourne. And others. Inscriptions: Album page - [Pencil on first free endpaper] This Album would appear to have belonged to Charlotte Johnston wife of John Johnston as several of the photos are marked C. J. The book came from Fitzherbert Terrace, Wellington, N.Z. Quantity: 1 album(s) 69 photographic prints. Physical Description: Album with 25 gilt-edged leaves bound in embossed brown leather with brass clasp, containing 62 cartes de visite, 6 cabinet cards, and one loose unmounted albumen print, 29.5 x 23 cm. Provenance: Donor is a descendant of Henrietta and John Johnston of Wellington.