Cabinet card

Bust of a young woman [some sort of trick photography with the photograph of the woman's head and shoulders mounted on a stone plinth] (photo by Hammer & Co.). William Hammer opened his photographic studio in Rundle Street in 1882. The business was to become one of the city's best known, taking photographs of generations of Adelaide's citizens in its rooms at 6a Rundle Street - later Rundle Mall.
Most South Australian family albums contain portraits taken by Hammer and Co. William Hammer died in 1919, but the business continued for another 65 years, until 1984.