• Title
  Sir William Dixson collection of ambrotype portraits, ca. 1857-1858
• Call number
  DL ON 1
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1857-1858
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  446193
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 11 ambrotypes - each approx. 35.7 x 27.8 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  1. [British officer]
  2. [seated lady]
  3. Dean Sumner OSB [Order of St Benedict / Benedictine] (in pencil on reverse upper edge)
  4. Rev J.B. Laughton (on label on reverse)
  5. [Unidentified male]
  6. [Unidentified male]
  7. [Unidentified male]
  8. [Unidentified male]
  9. [Unidentified female seated]
  10. [Composite of 33 portraits in oval, including Rev. Lang, 3rd row from bottom, at center]
  11. Curate of St James (plate broken)
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Published Information
  DL ON 1/no. 1 published on the cover of Inside history, July-August 2012
• General note
  
  Ambrotypes from the collection of Sir William Dixson
  These ambrotypes are possibly the work of the photographer Thomas Glaister. -- Source: Curator of Photographs, State Library of NSW, Mar 2005
  Digital order no:Album ID : 824224
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  DL ON 1/no. 1 is possibly Professor George Parker
  
  Reference:
  Alan Davies, Curator of Photographs, August 2012
• Name
  Lang, John Dunmore, 1799-1878
  Laughton, J. B.
  Sumner (Dean)
  
• Subject
  Dixson, William, Sir, 1870-1952--Photograph collections.
  Adult Males
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  ambrotypes
  ministers of religion
  photomontages
  portraits
  uniforms
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Eye 4 photography - State Library of New South Wales (8 January - 29 May, 2005). Applies to: nos.1-2
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1018981

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