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State Library of New South Wales

Mrs Montmurle & baby

1874
Glass photonegative

Sarah Southwell poses with her first child, William, on the studio chair. Her husband, Douglas, was a miner in Nuggetty Gully, Tambaroora. Like clockwork, Sarah and Douglas went on to have a child every two years, 11 children in total, five in Mudgee and then the remainder in Liverpool.

A Mother, Goldfields, 1874 by Marcelle Freiman