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Jack Little, photographer and composer

John Albert "Jack" Little dined out for the rest of his life on one astonishingly lucky picture he took while working as a press photographer with The Newcastle Sun in 1932. But there was more to Jack and his family, particularly in the field of musical accomplishment. Born in about 1868, Jack started off as a pianist and composer in Brisbane, with a number of published pieces of sheet music including The Wreck (sung by the famous Australian Baritone Peter Dawson), Three Sons of Old England (sung by Carrie Moore) and Lost at Sea. Interestingly his…

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The amazing photograph of the Hinton Wharf collapse

IT was a photograph that should not have been possible, considering the cumbersome glass-plate camera Jack Little was using. Press photographer Jack Little was at the right place at the right time on August 14,1932. Not only that, the assignment the veteran Sydney and Newcastle Sun photographer had been sent to cover on August 14, 1932 was the epitome of boring. And yet, by pure chance, Little took a photo that day that remains a wonder of news photography. Little, who was working at the Newcastle Sun on secondment from the Sydney Sun, had been sent…

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