John and Rebecca Ross and family

This daguerretype image was probably created by Townsend or Sanford Duryea in 1856 when they took their photographic apparatus to the district of Clare, where John and Rebecca lived at Stanley Flat. In this case the children would be Sarah (born 1853), Rebecca (born 1854) and Henrietta (born 1855).

John Ross led the survey team whose task it was to find a route for the Overland Telegraph to Port Darwin in 1870.

Brothers Townsend and Sanford Duryea established their photographic business on the corner of King William and Grenfell Streets in Adelaide in December 1855.

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