• Title
  [Sophia Rebecca Lawson, May 1845 / photographed by George Goodman]
• Creator
  George Baron Goodman, d. 1851
• Call number
  MIN 155
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  May 1845
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  440116
• 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
  
  Sophia Rebecca Lawson was the fifth daughter of William and Caroline Lawson and a grand-daughter of Lieut. William Lawson, pastoralist and Blue Mountains explorer. She later married Edward Richard Deas-Thomson in 1884.
  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 142, MIN 157-158, MIN 323, MIN 345 Mitchell Library.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1256007
• Name
  Lawson, Sophia Rebecca, 1840-1916
  
• 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)
  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
  IE1105552

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