Thomas Adcock was born In Brompton, Adelaide in 1856 son of English immigrant Thomas Adcock and Elizabeth nee Burnell. Thomas’s career was varied; minister of religion, mattress maker, furniture retailer, photographer, estate agent and journalist.By 1883 Adock was presenting a three day lantern slide religious lecture at the Hindmarsh Congregational Church and the following year used the lantern to give a lecture at Clare Town Hall on insurance for the AMP Society ad the following evening showed fifty slides of Christ and St Paul. By 1885 Adcock was making photographs as he became a foundation member of the South Australian Photographic Society and opened how own studio in 1887, offering a range of portrait and view services at Port Road, Hindmarsh. He was working as a portrait and enlarging artist at Freeman street by 188. How he had learned photography or portrait art is not known but he was a nephew of local photographer George Burnell.(q.v.)Adcock took over Saul Solomon’s Rundle street studio c 1891. Adcock was known for his enlarged portraits some life size -Hindmarsh, Kadina a skill perhaps arising form his experience with lantern slide projection.
From 189-95 Adcock had studios in Hindmarsh, Kadina, possibly Gawler and Moonta and from 1894 in Frearson’s Building King William Street Adelaide and from 1903-05 in 143 Rundle street trading as Alpha studios.
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