• Title
  Item 1: Daguerreotype portrait of Richard Burdsall Lyth, [ca. 1855-ca. 1865]
• Call number
  MIN 549
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  [ca. 1855-ca. 1865]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  9609250
• Physical Description
  1 photograph - in case, 12 x 9.5 cm - hand-coloured daguerreotype
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Reverend Dr. Richard Burdsall Lyth (1810-1887) was a Methodist minister who served as a missionary in the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, London. He married Mary Ann Hardy (1811-1890) in 1836, and they sailed to the Friendly Islands (now Tonga). In 1838 he was transferred to a new appointment on the Fijian Island, becoming one of the first missionaries in Fiji. He spent 16 years in the Fiji Islands, training native preachers and translating the scriptures into Fijian. Richard and Mary had nine children.
  Reference:
  Library correspondence file
  
  Rev. Lyth was a medical missionary in Fiji and worked with Thomas Williams, 1830-1856.
  Reference:
  S. Quinn, donor.
• Scope and Content
  A hand-coloured daguerreotype photographic portrait of missionary, Richard Lyth.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Title by cataloguer
• Date note
  
  Date based on two later photographs of the same subjects held at PXE 1528.
  These photographs were most likely taken in England after the Lyths returned from Fiji in 1858, or possibly in New Zealand where they worked from 1855-1858.
• Name
  Lyth, Richard Burdsall, 1810-1887
  
• Subject
  Missionaries--Fiji.
  Photography--19th century.
  
• Topic
  health workers
  men's clothing
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20791403

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