Born: John Frederich Carl Kruger Other: Fred Kruger
Born: 1831, 18 April - Germany, Berlin Died: 1888, 15 February Gender: Male Active: Australia
Emigrated from Germany to Australia in the early 1860s. He was commissioned by the Victorian Board for the Protection of Aborigines to take photographs at Coranderrk Aboriginal Station. The station of 4,850 acres of land had been established in 1860 as a reserve for Aboriginal people. The photographs document the uneasy tensions at a time the government was attempting to "civilize" aboriginal peoples by settling them and separating full-blooded aboriginals from half-castes. Kruger also produced the Souvenir Album of Victorian Aboriginals in which each photograph of a notable aboriginal was assigned a European royal title.
Frederick Kruger
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