Caroline Simpson Collection

Hugh Taylor with (probably) his wife and son on the front verandah of their house in Church Street Parramatta, around July 1870 / American and Australasian Photographic Company

American and Australasian Photographic Company.

1870

1 carte-de-visite ; sepia toned ; 6.5 x 10.5 cm.

Verso carries the printed trade label of the "American and Australasian Photographic Company / Melbourne Office 73 Little Collins St / Sydney Office 4 Barrack St" and is numbered, in pencil: 11619.

Parramatta (N.S.W.)
verandahs
cottages
picket fences
window shutters
Taylor family.
Taylor, Hugh, 1823-1897.

The man on the left of this photograph has been identified as Hugh Taylor, Parramatta butcher, local politician and MLA for Parramatta from 1872-1880 and 1882-1894. The woman in probably Hugh's wife, Frances Eliza nee Connor.
The photographer Beaufoy Merlin and his American and Australasian Photographic Company arrived in Sydney from Victoria around July 1870, via several country towns in New South Wales. In an advertisement placed in the Sydney Morning Herald on 21 September 1870 he announced that they had "now just completed taking nearly 800 views of Parramatta alone". This photograph must be one of those views. The streetfront building to the right of the house is Hugh Taylor's butcher shop in Church Street, Parramatta.

Estate of Rosalie Ann Watkins, nee Thorne, (1850-1927) of Penrose, Marsden Street Parramatta; Kenneth Stewart, Sydney antiquarian bookseller.

Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection ; CSL&RC PIC: small picture file : American & Australasian Photographic Co.

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