Thomas THOMPSON

Advertisement in the Register, 3 January 1855: ‘Daguerreotype Rooms, Gawler Place. Thos. Thompson has the honour to announce to the gentry and the inhabitants of Adelaide and vicinity that he has opened the above premises for the purpose of taking likenesses in the above interesting art.’ He referred to his previous success in England and the Channel Islands, and said that he had a variety of double and single lockets for miniatures. His hours of attendance were from 9 am to 6 pm.

On 13 October 1855 the S.A. Weekly Dispatch noted that Mr Thompson had opened daguerreotype rooms on North Parade, Port Adelaide. ‘His casts of Messrs. Brown, Griffiths and Jagoe are faithfully executed, and at a glance shows that he is a master of the branch he professes.’

In Young’s directory for 1856 Thompson is listed as a ‘photographic artist’, Gawler Place, and in March that year he advertised his Voigtlander daguerreotype camera for sale, together with the ‘complete apparatus’. His listing for 1858 was ‘artist’ of Franklin Street.

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