• Title
  Item 2: Daguerreotype portrait of Mary Ann Lyth, [ca 1855-ca 1865]
• Call number
  MIN 550
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  [ca 1855-ca 1865]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  9609251
• Physical Description
  1 photograph - hand-coloured daguerreotype - in case, 12 x 9.5 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Mary Ann Lyth, nee Hardy (1811-1890) was the wife of the Reverend Richard Burdsall Lyth, Methodist missionary in Fiji, stationed at various mission stations, including Lakemba and Viwa.
  Reference:
  Library correspondence file
  
  Mary Ann was a medical missionary in Fiji.
  Reference:
  S. Quinn, donor.
• Scope and Content
  A hand-coloured daguerreotype photographic portrait of missionary, Mary Ann Lyth.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Title by cataloguer
• Date note
  
  Date based on two later photographs of the same subjects held at PXE 1528.
  These photographs were most likely taken in England after the Lyths returned from Fiji in 1858, or possibly in New Zealand where they worked from 1855-1858.
• Name
  Lyth, Mary Ann
  
• Subject
  Missionaries--Fiji.
  Photography--19th century.
  
• Topic
  missionaries
  health workers
  women's clothing & accessories
  bonnets
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20791422

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