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  • Rose Harriette was the eldest daughter of Robert Thompson Crawshay, the Merthyr Tydfil ironmaster. She was her father's favourite subject for photographs and was often required as a model, washer, cutter and paster of prints. She hated assisting with the washing of the prints as the chemicals involved stained her hands. She hated being the photographers model even more, but felt it her duty to assist her father. 'To bear is to conquer' she wrote in her diary. This shot would have been taken in Robert's photographic studio, at Cyfarthfa Castle.
Rose Harriette Thompson Crawshay
  • A photograph of William Thompson Crawshay (eldest son of Robert Thompson Crawshay) and a friend, taken around 1870 when William was twenty-three.
William Thompson Crawshay, 1869
  • A view of Robert's youngest daughter 'Pops' in around 1871 when she was twenty years old.
Henrietta Louise Thompson Crawshay, c. 1871
  • A view of Robert's youngest daughter 'Pops' in around 1871 when she was twenty years old.
Henrietta Louise Thompson Crawshay, c. 1871
  • Mr Sutherland, a family friend, is pictured with an unknown gentleman and Robert's youngest son Richard 'Tids' Frederick Thompson Crawshay when he was eleven years old.
Family scene at Cyfarthfa Castle, 19th century
  • Robert Thompson Crawshay's photographic hobby occupied him from the late 1860s, and he has left a rich legacy of images of his family and their leisure pursuits.
Self portrait of Robert Thompson Crawshay