Reference: Dictionary of South Australian Photography, by R. J. Noye. This dictionary is on a CD Rom in the back cover of A Century in Focus - South Australian Photography 1840s-1940s by Julie Robinson assisted by Maria Zagala. ‘R. J. Noye (1932–2002)
was one of South Australia’s most prolific and respected historians. Bob was born in Millicent 16 July 1932 and later lived in Saddleworth with his wife Jenny before settling with the family in Clare in 1971. He worked for the Postmaster General’s Department (later Telecom) for 42 years. Bob became interested in history in the early 1960s and went on to publish the very successful Clare: A District History in 1974. He also wrote a very popular weekly column for the Northern Argus called ‘Talking History’. Bob died suddenly of a heart attack at his Clare home on 17 August 2002.
Bob amassed an impressive collection of over 5,000 nineteenth and early twentieth-century South Australian photographs and glass-plate negatives, undertook extensive research on a vast number of early South Australian photographers and created his website Photohistory SA. Now owned by the Art Gallery of South Australia, this vast archive, known as the R.J. Noye Collection, is a rich legacy for the people of South Australia, and indeed the nation.’ From A Century in Focus - South Australian Photography 1840s-1940s
Publishing details: CD Rom in A Century in Focus - South Australian Photography 1840s-1940s by Julie Robinson assisted by Maria Zagala.AGSA, 2007, card covers, 232pp
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