[T.O. Dadswell Wholesale Manufactory shopfront and workers on King Street, ca 1869-ca 1872] / photog...
[T.O. Dadswell Wholesale Manufactory shopfront and workers on King Street, ca 1869-ca 1872] / photographed by Beaufoy Merlin, American and Australasian Photographic Company
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
[ca 1869-ca 1872]
Call Numbers
SPG/202
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Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
1 photographic print - 6.3 x 10.5 cm - albumen, carte-de-visite
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Created before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Subjects
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Scope and Contents
Contents
1 albumen carte-de-visite photographic print of the Thomas Dadswell shopfront on King Street, possibly Newtown or Sydney. It shows a large group of over 50 people including several young children, posing in front of a large business in Sydney. Above the awning is a sign "29 T.O. Dadswell, Wholesalers, Manufactory". Some workers are holding boots i...
Alternative Titles
Full title
[T.O. Dadswell Wholesale Manufactory shopfront and workers on King Street, ca 1869-ca 1872] / photographed by Beaufoy Merlin, American and Australasian Photographic Company
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Author / Artists
Notes
Signature / Inscriptions
On verso of print: Stamp of American & Australasian Photographic Company, Sydney Office, 11 Barrick Street.
Signed: Beaufoy Merlin.
Inscription: "For Mrs. [?] H. Freeland".
Cat. no: 57238.
Date note
No date. Date based on Beaufoy Merlin's professional career in Sydney between 1869 and departure from American & Australasian Photographic Company in 1872.
Description source
Titled by cataloguer.
Object History
By descent to Phillip Morcom then to Harley R. Dadswell.
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by Harley R. Dadswell, May 2016
Administrative / Biographical history
Thomas Ovenden Dadswell sailed from England to Moreton Bay QLD with his wife Sarah, aboard the sailing ship Fortitude in 1849 and moved to Sydney the following year.
The couple was living in King Street, Sydney, and by 1867 they had moved to Wellington Street, Newtown. In the following year, Sands Directory listed Thomas as having a boot man...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SPG/202
Record Identifier
1xqGMgeY
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1xqGMgeY
Other Identifiers
Reference code
1001615
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