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Circa 1866 Albumen Photograph Portrait of Otago Pioneer and Gold mining Engineer John Cormack
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Lot Details
Dunedin By the London Portrait Rooms (Dunedin) ; (Alexander Peyman and Frederick Henry Irwin), carte de visite format 10.5 by 6.5cm. Verso printed The London Portrait Rooms, Princes Street, Dunedin, New Zealand Exhibition 1865, and contemporary inscription in ink :John cormack to his niece Janet Mackay". Scottish settler Cormack (b1837) arrived at Port Chalmers from Clyde aboard the ship Robert Henderson on 5 October, 1861. He married Isabella Dunnet (b1839) on 26 December 1864, at the residence of Mr W D Sutherland, George St, Dunedin. Cormack was a gold mining engineer and long time resident of Blue Spur in the Tuapeka district. An expert in hydraulic sluicing Cormack became manager of the Rise and Shine claim at Pomahoka in the 1890s, he worked in Tasmania as mine manager of the Savage River Hydraulic Gold Mining Company.
