• Title
  Edward Eagar (1787-1866), lawyer and merchant, ca. 1863 / photographer unknown
• Call number
  P1/535
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1863
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  886536
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 photomechanical print - postcard - 10.7 x 8.1 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  For a biography of Edward Eagar, see: Australian Dictionary of Biography Online. http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/ (accessed January 27, 2010)
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: created before 1955
• Related Material
  Octavius Bayliffe Ebsworth papers, ca. 1846-1958 (422367)
• General note
  
  Transferred from P1/Eagar, Edward (BM), January 2010
  Digital order no:a4215034
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  "Edward Eagar photo 1863, born 1785 died 1869, came to NSW 1810, left 1821, his son Geoffrey was Treasurer for N.S.W. 1868. Samuel Leigh spent his first night ashore at E.E's. home on 10 Aug. 1815 in O'Connell St. The next day they went to see Macquarie who requested Mr Eagar to show the 1st Methodist clergyman around the colony, which he did." -- in ink on the reverse
  
  "An enlargement of this photo in possession of the Eagar Family 1955 see 182/1955 has at back in the handwriting of Edward Eagar of Balaclava Road, great grandson of Ed. Eagar 1787-1866.
  'The small photo of which this is an enlargement had on the back in Edward Eagar's handwriting To my Affectionate son Geoffrey etat. [sic] 76, 24 December 1863'
  Copy of the enlargement is at P1" -- typed note attached to the postcard
• Name
  Eagar, Edward, 1787-1866
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  portraits
  lawyers
  merchants
  
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