Caroline Simpson Collection

Hugh Taylor in front of his butcher shop 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: 11608.

Parramatta (N.S.W.)
horsedrawn carts
shingle roofs
window shutters
butcher shops
reflections
plate glass
Taylor, Hugh, 1823-1897.
Taylor family.

The man standing on the left of the photograph has been identified as Hugh Taylor, sometime mayor of Parramatta and MLA for Parramatta from 1872-1880 and 1882-1894. Standing next to him is his brother John Taylor and the young boy may be one of Hugh's sons. The house adjacent to the butcher shop was John Taylor's family home.
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.

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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