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Mrs. Mary Thomas [B 14662] • Photograph

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Summary

Mrs. Mary Thomas and her husband Robert Thomas were early pioneers to South Australia in 1836. Her letters between 1855 and 1860 to her daughter Helen on the Victorian goldfields gave a detailed account of colonial domestic life. Mary was 49 when she left a comfortable life in London for a tent in the sand hills of Holdfast Bay. She died aged 87 leaving 56 descendants

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Physical description

Photograph; 16.3 cm x 11.4 cm

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1870

Collection

Part of Portrait Collection

Subject

Thomas, Mary, 1787-1875

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Digitisation information

Date

12/05/2006

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

2,244 x 3,007 pixels (6.7 MP)

Size

20.28 MB

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