• Title
  [Rose Cottage, Pyrmont, residence of Thomas and Jane Day]
• Call number
  SPF/420
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  undated [ca. 1860s]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  412896
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - albumen photoprint, hand col. - 9.8 x 12.7 cm., on mount 14.6 x 18 cm.
  
• Related Material
  Photograph of ship S.S. Brighton and copy photograph of view of Rose Cottage, Pyrmont, New South Wales (9664740)
  Rose Cottage (also known as Dayswood), 95 John St., Pyrmont, about 1892 (412898)
• General note
  
  "Rose Cottage was built about 1840 at Pyrmont, with Pyrmont sandstone, and was demolished about 1908 to make way for a railway cutting. Thomas Day was born at Sydney in 1795, and Jane [nee Fairweather] his second wife in 1813. Both lived and died in `Rose Cottage' Thomas died 1868, Jane died 1902 ... Thomas Day is wearing a tall white hat. Jane is wearing a Mutch - but she did so all her married life ..." -- Information from great grandson, Mar 1965 (ML 344/65)
  Rose Cottage, demolished for a railway goods line in 1916. Reference: Demolished houses of Sydney / edited by Joy Hughes. Glebe, NSW : Historic Houses Trust N.S.W., 1999 (p.54)
  A portrait of Mrs Jane Day and her daughters Jane, Mary and Eliza, 1859 / photographed by Thomas Glaister reproduced in: The mechanical eye in Australia : photography 1841-1900 / Alan Davies & Peter Stanbury. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1985 (p.39)
  Digital order no:a089420
  This item has been catalogued and digitised under a project funded and supported by the State Library of New South Wales Foundation, 2001.
• Name
  Day family
  Fairweather, Jane, 1813-1902
  Day, Thomas, 1795-1868
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  houses
  
• Place
  Rose Cottage (Pyrmont, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1230502

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