Cover image for Albert Archer Rollings (Aa 'Arch' Rollings) [Photographer]
Agency:
Albert Archer Rollings (Aa 'Arch' Rollings) [Photographer]
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Start Date:
24 Mar 1865
End Date:
02 Mar 1947
Description:
AA "Arch" Rollings was born in Sorell (Forcett) to farmers James Rollings and Martha Wiggins in 1865. He married Sophia Dodge (1848-1928) in Hobart in 1890. After Sophia died, he married Julia Adelaide Rapp (1872-1959). He is not recorded as having any children.;;Arch was appointed post-master and savings bank agent at Forcett in 1896. He is also noted as playing in the Forcett Football Club and later in the Carnarvon Team. By 1898 Rollings had moved to professional photography. With Harry Dart he operated a studio in Harrington Street 'Dart and Rollings'. In the early 1900s until 1906 he had a partnership with H E Howard. In 1906 Rollings opened a drapery and photographic business in Sorell. He was in business until 1924 at his shop at 21 Gordon Street.;;The most well know photographs taken by A A Rollings are those of Horace Watson recording the voice of Fanny Cochrane Smith in 1903. Photographs taken by Arch Rollings can be found in series where he is listed as the creator, as well as in general miscellaneous photographic series including PH30 and PH40.
Information Sources:
Launceston Examiner 23/11/1896; Mercury 13/9/1888; RGD37/1/49, No.342; RGD33/1/43, No.1532; Tanner, Robert 'The Rollings Photos' in Pitt Water Chronicles, Vol 2, May 2017.
Functions Performed:
Arts and culture
Series Created By Agency:
NS3928 Photographs01 Jan 189031 Dec 1930

NS3929 Indexes to Photographs01 Jan 189031 Dec 1925

NS1553 Glass Plate Negatives by a a Rollings of Sorell Area01 Jan 189631 Dec 1939