Shearman family photograph album

Date
[ca 1870s - 1890s]
By
Shearman family; Hickey, Marie, 1925?-
Reference
PA-Group-01004
Description

Family photograph album relating to the Shearman family of Wanganui. Contains cabinet card and carte de visite portraits taken circa 1870s-circa 1890s by a range of photographers. Includes a tintype, and two other photographs, of John Shearman, possibly when he was a member of the Armed Constabulary. All other persons unidentified. Compiler of album unidentified.

Source of title - Title supplied by Library

Quantity: 1 album(s).

Physical Description: 1 album with loose photographs. Includes cabinet cards, carte de visite, tin types, and a cyanotype.

Provenance: Retrieved from a rubbish bin, by Marie Hickey, during a clean out of a Shearman family home in Wanganui some years ago. Marie Hickey is the cousin of the donor.

John Shearman is Marie Hickey's (cousin of the donor) maternal grandfather.

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Format
1 album(s), Albumen prints, Cabinet photographs, Cartes de visite, Cyanotypes, Group portraits, Photograph albums, Photographs, Portraits, Tintypes, 1 album with loose photographs. Includes cabinet cards, carte de visite, tin types, and a cyanotype.
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Shearman family photograph album

Date: [ca 1870s-ca 1890s]

From: Shearman family photograph album

Reference: PA1-q-1188

Description: Family photograph album relating to the Shearman family of Whanganui. Contains cabinet card and carte de visite portraits taken circa 1870s-circa 1890s by a range of photographers. Includes two photographs of John Shearman, possibly when he was a member of the Armed Constabulary. All other persons unidentified. Compiler of album unidentified. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Carte de visite photograph album with with tooled leather covers; contains colour illustrated windows. Includes cabinet cards and carte de visite.

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Shearman family photographs

Date: [ca 1870s - ca 1890s]

From: Shearman family photograph album

Reference: PAColl-10401

Description: Photographs portraits taken circa 1870s - circa 1890s. Includes cabinet cards, cartes de visite, a tintype of John Shearman, post cards and printed ephemera. All items were orginally loose within the Shearman family album. One carte de visite has the following note written on the back "To my dearest friend. M. Redican" (It is unclear whether this message is addressed to or from Maria Redican). Quantity: 18 b&w original photographic print(s) 5 items of ephemera. Physical Description: B&w original prints, items of ephemera, tin types and a cyanotype.