Albumen print
Photograph
Maker & role
The Swiss Studio, Photographer
Production date
1899
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Object detail
Title
Portrait of Margaret Ross Macgregor
Production place
Collection
Measurements
Image, H: 13.5 x W: 90cm (H: 135 x W: 900mm)
Subject person
Signature & marks
Each image impressed in ornate upper case type, on left-hand side of mounts " THE SWISS STUDIOS". Impressed to lower right hand side "KING STREET SYDNEY". Oval stamp "THE SWISS STUDIOS/SYDNEY" impressed on lower right-hand side of images.
Credit line
Purchase, 1985
Meroogal Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Meroogal Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Caption
Cabinet card photograph of Maggie Macgregor wearing a shell necklace, 1899
Description
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card. Studio half-length female portrait of Margaret Ross Steel nee Macgregor (1888-1971). Subject has ringlets, a shell necklace, a cotton dress with a high neck, and sits against a dark background).
Margaret Ross (Maggie) Macgregor (1888-1971) was about eleven years old when she was photographed in a pretty dress with a lace collar and wearing a shell necklace [M86/146). Maggie was the fourth daughter of Roderick Macgregor and his wife Mary Susan Thorburn of Torrisdale, Cambewarra, in the Shoalhaven district of New South Wales, but her necklace probably came from Tasmania.
Margaret Ross (Maggie) Macgregor (1888-1971) was about eleven years old when she was photographed in a pretty dress with a lace collar and wearing a shell necklace [M86/146). Maggie was the fourth daughter of Roderick Macgregor and his wife Mary Susan Thorburn of Torrisdale, Cambewarra, in the Shoalhaven district of New South Wales, but her necklace probably came from Tasmania.
Accession number
M86/146-1
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