professional photographers, all worked in George Street, Sydney, at various times from 1865. In October 1865 the Sydney Morning Herald reported that Messrs Moss & Co. of Brickfield Hill had taken two photographs illustrating the 'rare and extraordinary disease’ of elephantiasis in the legs of a blind 15-year-old boy. They had been commissioned by the boy’s medical adviser, Dr Bell, who ordered the photographs in two sizes and was intending to have copies made to circulate among the medical profession and to send to the Lancet , Medical Times and Australian Medical Journal 'so that woodcuts can be executed to appear in these journals, and also a detailed account of the case’. The photographers were commended for the quality of their work in the newspaper, but the medical journals may have been less impressed. No such photographs can be traced.

Moss & Co., who were at 631 (or 637) George Street from 1865-70, apparently included Moses (listed separately in 1869) and Isaac (listed separately in 1871-75), while Morris Moss was at 487 George Street South about 1866-68, having taken over the premises from James E. Bray , probably early in 1866. By 1869 Charles H. Tullett was at this address and Morris Moss was working in the Hunter Valley; he was based at Maitland in the late 1870s and 1880s.

In addition, one H. Moss announced in the McIvor News on 8 December 1858 that he had set up a studio at The Portrait Room next to Smith’s bakery in Heathcote, Victoria, where he was offering a likeness in a case for 5s. He may have been another member of the clan, possibly its founder.

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Staff Writer
Date written:
1992
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