Harriet Anne Norman b. c.1834

  • Artist (Photographer)
A photographer who worked in her father's photographic studio and watch and jewellery shops in Portland (1854) & Hamilton (1858-1867) in Victoria, and Commercial Street East in Mount Gambier from 1867. She was co-owner and manager this business in Mount Gambier from 1867 to 1872 and the sole owner from 1872 until her death in 1915. It is presumed that twelve tintype portraits of an unknown woman are her work.
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professional photographer, was born in London, only daughter of the five children of Henry Norman and his first wife Harriet, née Chapman. She came to Mount Gambier, South Australia, with her father, step-mother and brothers in the 1850s and was helping take photographs at the Normans’ Mount Gambier studio (in her father’s watch and jewellery shop) from the early 1860s. Harriet was listed as the manager of the photography side of the business in 1870-76 and again in 1888-91, and was presumably an active partner in the interim. A sheet of twelve tintype portraits of an unknown woman taken at the Normans’ studio in about 1879 (R.J. Noye Collection, Mortlock Library) may be her work. She died, unmarried, at Mount Gambier on 28 November 1915.

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Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011