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439948
  • Title
    [Susannah Caroline Lawson, May 1845 / photographed by George Goodman]
  • Creator
  • Call number
    MIN 158
  • Level of description
    item
  • Date

    May 1845
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    439948
  • Issue Copy
    Digitised
  • Physical Description
    Photographs - 1/9th plate daguerreotype in pinchbeck frame, inside velvet-lined morocco leather Wharton case - visible image 5 x 4 cm., case 7.5 x 6.2 x 2 cm. (closed)
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    Susannah Caroline Lawson was the second daughter of William and Caroline Lawson and a grand-daughter of Lieut. William Lawson, pastoralist and Blue Mountains explorer. She later married John Rendell Street in 1860.
    For further genealogical information see PXn 870, available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room. See also Annals of the Street Family of Birtley / Kenneth W. Street (1941)
  • Access Conditions

    Access via appointment
  • General note

    In May 1845, George Goodman photographed the Lawson family producing a set of six or more exquisite daguerreotype portraits. Others in the series are located at MIN 157, MIN 142, MIN 155, MIN 323, MIN 345 Mitchell Library.
    Digital order no:a128785
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  • Exhibited in

    Private Lives: Families of N.S.W. - State Library of New South Wales (1 January, 2001 - 3 February, 2002)
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