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  • Photograph of Corporal John Griffith Jones, taken while he was serving in the Union Army during the American Civil War
Photograph of Corporal John Griffith Jones, taken while he was serving in the Union Army during the American Civil War
  • A note on the back of this photograph reads
'father and mother wedding picture, Uncle Owen and Aunt Margaret stood with them,  Aunt Fanny'; the next two words are illegible.
Photograph of some of John Griffith Jones's family
Madame Adelina Patti Nicolini in 'Gabriella'
  • 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
Rose Harriette 'Trotty' Crawshay in costume