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Adolfsson, Mattias

  • US DLC no2013118475
  • Person
  • 1965-

Freelance Swedish illustrator and graphic artist living in Sigtuna near Stockholm. His ink and watercolour illustrations have appeared in children's books and computer games.

Aebi, James

  • AU QU
  • Person

James Aebi was a German-Swiss photographer who migrated to Australia in the 1890s. In 1895 he introduced the half-tone photograph process to Australia while with the Electric Photo Engraving Company of Sydney. This was the beginning of colour photographic printing in Australia. Later in the same year he introduced the technology to the Northern Miner newspaper in Charters Towers and the North Queensland Herald in Townsville before becoming Head Operator of Calvert Studios in Melbourne, a position he held until the end of 1899. From 1900 to 1911 Aebi was head of the School of Photography at Melbourne Technical College, a forerunner of RMIT University, where he taught over 700 students.

Aeschylus

  • US DLC n 79055702
  • Person
  • ?525/4-465/5 BCE

Aeschylus was an Athenian tragic dramatist. He was probably born in Eleusis, and died in Gala. His plays include Seven Again Thebes, Suppliants, the Oresteia play cycle, and Women of Aetna.

Afferden, Jansen van

  • Person

Lieutenant-Commander, Commandant Jansen van Afferden was the representative of the Netherlands Administation in New Guinea.

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