• Title
  Ambrotype and cart-de-visite portraits from the papers of Ankerson and Noble family, ca.1855-1865
• Call number
  MIN 453
  MIN 454
  MIN 455
  MIN 456
  P1/2134
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  ca.1855-1865
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  911092
• Physical Description
  4 photographs - ambrotype
  1 photograph - carte-de-visite
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  George and Kate Noble were the donor's great-grandparents. The donor provided biographical information in relation to the portraits, which was recorded in the following notes by the Mitchell Library.
• Scope and Content
  MIN 453
  George Noble, great grandfather of Mrs Gange (who was digging on the Castlemaine & other places) (in gold mining shirt). Letters refer to his diggings and his wife's search for him over a period of three years. He left his family because his wife [space] Noble) induced his daughter who was only 16 1/2 years to marry Mrs Gange's grandfather who was 45 at the time of the marriage to Ankerson.
  
  MIN 454
  Mrs George Noble (Kate). She lived on a houseboat in Melbourne and did odd sewing jobs.
  
  MIN 455
  Matthew(?) Noble, the son of Mr & Mrs George Noble and brother of Mrs Ankerson. The letters show him to be a cadger and gambler so says Mrs Gange. Mr Ankerson finally paid his passage home to England.
  
  MIN 456
  Ann Ankerson [i.e. Sarah Ann?] the wife of Richard(?) Ankerson and the daughter of Mr & Mrs George Noble.
  
  P1 / 2134
  Richard Ankerson who married Miss Ann Noble [i.e. Sarah Ann?] (to her father's disgust) and who in later years contributed to the support of his mother and father in law and their son, finally paying for their return passage to England. Carte-de-visite by Frederick Cole, London.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment - Applies to MIN 453-MIN 456
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  This pictorial material is part of Ankerson and Noble family papers at MLMSS 2251.
  
  Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.2327 as part of the eRecords project 2011-2012
• Date note
  
  No date
• Conservation note
  
  Leather cases for MIN 453-MIN 455 are lacking a cover. MIN 453, bottom edge of case is partly detached. MIN 454 lacks glass pane and preserver; brass mat and image are loose. MIN 455 is missing top edge of case, and lacking brass mat, preserver and glass pane, image is loose. MIN 456 is in a complete case.
• Name
  Noble, George
  Noble, Kate
  Noble, Sarah Ann
  Ankerson, Richard
  
• Topic
  ambrotypes
  portraits
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE21118728

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