• Title
  [Sarah Ann Lawson, May 1845 / photographed by George Goodman]
• Creator
  George Baron Goodman, d. 1851
• Call number
  MIN 142
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  May 1845
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  440106
• 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
  
  Sarah Ann Lawson was the third daughter of William and Caroline Lawson and a grand-daughter of Lieut. William Lawson, pastoralist and Blue Mountains explorer. She later married Christopher Lethbridge in 1885.
  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
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• 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 158, MIN 155, MIN 323, MIN 345 Mitchell Library.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1256005
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Accompanying note in contemporary hand reads: "Sarah Anne Lawson, 3rd May 1845, Born 24 January 1838"
• Name
  Lawson, Sarah Ann, 1838-1893
  
• Subject
  girls
  
• Topic
  picture frames
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Private Lives: Families of N.S.W. - State Library of New South Wales (1 January, 2001 - 3 February, 2002)
  Faces of Australia: image, reality and the portrait. - State Library of New South Wales (May, 1992 - October, 1992)
  The Photograph and Australia (Art Gallery of New South Wales) - Art Gallery of New South Wales (March, 2015 - June, 2015)
  The Photograph and Australia (Queensland Art Gallery) - Queensland Art Gallery
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1112364

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