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			Creator		American & Australasian Photographic Company
			Title		Captain [he was a sailor] Gus [Augustus] Pierce [i.e. Peirce], American variety tent theatre entrepreneur and photographer
			Level of Description		Series
			Date of Work		1870-1875
			Type of Material		Graphic Materials
			Call Number		Home and Away - 41322
			Issue Copy		Copy Print - PXA 4999 Available on Open Access shelves in Mitchell Library Original Materials Reading Room
			Physical Description		Photographs : 1 glass photonegative ; Quarter plate
			Administrative / Biographical Note		For further information on Gus Peirce and his tent theatre, see: Knocking about : being some adventures of Augustus Baker Peirce in Australia / edited by Mrs Albert T. Leatherbee ; with an introduction by Edwin Howard Brigham ; illustrated by the writer. Wangaratta : Shoestring Press, 1984.


			Supplementary Identifiers		Original item no. ON 4 Box 23 No 733
			General Note		See also item PXA 4999 Box 11 No 70206 [also possibly in Item Box 1 No 18145]
			Name		Peirce, Augustus Baker
			Topic		Americans (United States) photographers portraits ships' captains theatrical producers & directors
			Persons		Adult Males
			Digital order no.		on4_41322