• Title
  [Caroline and son Thomas James Lawson, 1845 / photographed by George Goodman]
• Creator
  George Baron Goodman, d. 1851
• Call number
  MIN 323
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  3 May 1845
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  404972
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 photograph - 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
  
  William Lawson (1804-1861) was the son of the Blue Mountains explorer and pastoralist Lieut. William Lawson. He married Caroline Icely in 1832 and they had eight children. Thomas James was their youngest son.
  
  For further genealogical information see PXn 870, available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room. See also the Annals of the Street Family of Birtley / by 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
  
  Photograph probably taken as part of a series of Lawson family portraits by George Goodman on 3rd May 1845. Others in the series are located at MIN 142, MIN 155, MIN 157-158, and MIN 345 -- Curator of Photographs, Mitchell Library
  Digital order no:Album ID : 948028
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  On a piece of paper once fixed to case is inscribed in contemporary hand "Mama and / Thomas James Lawson / 3d May 1845 / Born 23d September 1841"
• Name
  Lawson, Caroline, 1802-1875
  Lawson, Thomas James, 1841-1877
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  boys
  Lawson family.
  Photography of families.
  Portrait photography.
  
• Topic
  mothers
  picture frames
  sons
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Faces of Australia: image, reality and the portrait. - State Library of New South Wales (25 May - 12 October, 1992)
  Private Lives: Families of N.S.W. - State Library of New South Wales (January, 2001 - 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

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