Dr. John Singleton - 1864
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Photo of Dr. John Singleton taken by Thomas J.J. Wyatt in June 1864. The photo is from an album which belonged to Thomas Lewis Singleton, 1847-1922.
State Library of Victoria record:
Title: [Dr. John Singleton?] [picture].
Author/Creator: Thomas J. J. Wyatt fl. 1857-1885,
Date(s): 1864
Description: 1 photographic print on cartes de visite mount : albumen silver ; 11 x 7 cm.
Copyright status: This work is out of copyright
Terms of use: No copyright restrictions apply.
Identifier(s): Accession no(s) H93.23/92
Subjects: Physicians ; Mount Gambier (S. Aust.) ; Albumen prints ; Portrait photographs ; Cartes de visite
Index terms: South Australia; Mount Gambier; doctors; studios; men
Notes: Photograph housed in an album with tan suede on the covers, a metal clasp, and pages edged with silver. Album belonged to Thomas Lewis Singleton, 1847-1922.
Decorative frontispiece on the first page, showing flowers with the word 'Album'.
Title taken from notes provided.
Written on verso: June 1864, Mount Gambier.
Printed on verso: Photographed by Thos. J.J. Wyatt, Warrnambool, Portland and Belfast.
Contents/Summary: Studio portrait of a man, full length, facing slightly to his left, standing with left leg crossed in front of right, left elbow resting on pedestal with hand holding a book, right hand holding a cane.
Source/Donor: Gift; Mr John M. Bishop; 1992.
Related works: Series: Singleton Family albums.
Biographical/Historical note: John Singleton, born 1808 in Dublin, Ireland, died 1891 in East Melbourne. Opened free Singleton Medical Welfare Centre in 1869, and visited prisoners in gaol, including Ned Kelly. He married Isabella Daunt of Cork, born 1808, died 1886, having children: William Daunt, born (1832), died 1901 ; John Wesley, born 1838, died 1924 ; Mary Quinn ; Robert Henry Thomas, born 1849, died 1927 ; Frances Matilda V., born (1849), died 1867 ; Isabell, born (1843), died 1869 ; Elizabeth (Grace), born (1844), died 1932 ; Anna (Mercy), born (1846), died 1934.
Link to digitised item: http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/124649
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