King Tom of Dunmore, Maitland is captured on film by an unknown studio photographer. He is sitting cross-legged, wearing a breast plate and holding a boomerang. King Tom involves himself in local community life and is well known and respected for donating a pair of wild ducks valued at five shillings to a Patriotic Fund for widows and orphans of men killed in the Crimean War and taking part in the funeral procession of local farmer, David Dickinson. King Tom is an Aboriginal warrior who is often seen about the Maitland district wearing his brass breast plate. (Maitland Mercury, 25 August 1877)