S.A. "Register" Staff |
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Title : | S.A. "Register" Staff |
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Source : | B 5967 | ||
Date of creation : | 1857 | ||
Format : | Photograph | ||
Dimensions : | 160 x 126 mm | ||
Contributor : | State Library catalogue | ||
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Description : |
Proprietors and principal editorial officers of the S. A. Register. From left to right: W.W.R. Whitridge (on editorial staff); Joseph Fisher (proprietor); William Kyffin Thomas; Anthony Forster; E.W. Andrews; J.H. Barrow (editorial staff). Robert Thomas established the South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register [newspaper] , and later the Register newspaper. Mr and Mrs Thomas were accompanied by their children Frances Amelia (Skipper) 1818-1855, Robert George, 1820-1885, William Kyffin, 1821 -1878, Mary (Skipper), 1823-1881 and Helen (Mantegani), 1825-1921. Another child, Alfred, died in infancy. The State Library also holds a selection of extracts from the diary of Mary Thomas (1823-1881), the daughter of Mary and Robert Thomas (PRG 1160/6), who later became the second wife of colonial artist, J.M. Skipper. Mary often refers to her parents' prinitng business in the diary (p.4);
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Related names : | Fisher, Joseph, 1834-1907 Thomas, Robert, 1782-1860 Thomas, Mary, 1787-1875 Thomas, Mary, 1823-1881 |
Coverage year : | ca.1857 |
Period : | 1836-1851,1852-1883 |
Place : | South Australia |
Region : | Adelaide city |
Further reading : | Duncan, Beth Mary Thomas : founding mother : the life and times of a South Australian pioneer Kent Town, S. Aust. : Wakefield Press, 2007 Hope, Penelope. Voyage of the Africaine: a collection of journals, letters and extracts from contemporary publications South Yarra, Vic.: Heinemann Educational Australia, 1968Pike, Douglas. Paradise of dissent : South Australia 1829-1857 London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1957 Pitt, G.H. The press in South Australia, 1836-1850 Adelaide, S. Aust.: Wakefield Press, 1946. Thomas, Evan Kyffin. The diary and letters of Mary Thomas (1836-1866) : being a record of the early days of South Australia Adelaide, S. Aust.: Gillingham Printers, 1983 |
Internet links : | State Library of South Australia, General Information Factsheets Online, Newspapers of South Australia Australian dictionary of biography online edition search for staff members by name SA Memory Foundation of South Australia 1800-1851 Diary of Mary Thomas SA Memory, Foundation of South Australia 1800-1851 South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register [newspaper] SA Memory, Foundation of South Australia 1800-1851 Register |