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SMALL STUDIO PORTRAIT ON CARD, ANN ELIZABETH WHITFIELD

Nixon & Merrilees
1896
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People
Overview

Sepia photograph produced on card with name of photographer printed on the bottom "Nixon & Merrilees, Fremantle WA".
Subject is Ann Elizabeth Whitfield, widow of George Munro Whitfield.
Mrs Whitflield is sitting on a chair/stool upon which a fur stole has been placed. She is wearing a long black dress with leg of mutton style long sleeves.
She has a black choker fastened at her neck with a brooch. Whie lace is just visible above the top of the dress bodice and beneath the choker.
Mrs. Whitfield is facing and looking towards the left and has a partially opened book on her lap.
She has her hair pulled back in a bun and is wearing a light coloured lace cap. She is also wearing light coloured gloves

Historical information

This studio portrait dates from 1896. Ann had been a widow for 6 years by this time; she outlived her husband by 34 years, passing away in 1924.

Details

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Registration number
cwa-org-37-2001.427
Item type
Photographs
Themes
Social History
Material
Photographic Paper
Inscriptions and markings

Nixon and Merrillees of Fremantle

Contextual Information

Ann Elizabeth McDermott was born in 1833 and married George Munro Whitfield in 1856.
She was 23 and he was 41. Typical of women of her era she went on to have a large family; 10 children in all. Sadly she also lost 3 of those children in infancy - the last two children she bore were twin boys who died very young.
Ann conducted a private school in Toodyay during the 1870s.

Place made
Fremantle
Western Australia
Australia
Year
1896
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