W. Mason & Co. Photographers. c.1880s/90s.
National Trust of Australia (Victoria) Old Melbourne
Martha Needle was hanged in 1894. Martha was an attractive woman with an apparently kindly disposition, but she was insane by any modern standards. Her friends were shocked when it was discovered she had poisoned her husband, daughters and prospective brother-in-law. She had grown up in a violent and abusive household, and had shown signs of mental instability as an adolescent, but had grown into a beautiful young woman and married at seventeen. After her children's deaths, before she was apprehended, she spent the insurance money on an elaborate family grave which she visited regularly.
She was hanged at the age of thirty. Martha had been raised in an unstable family and wreaked havoc on her own. Her story is unusual because her crimes arose not out of the severe circumstances of colonial Victoria but from universal, age-old family and personal dysfunction.
Via Culture Victoria
(Park Hartenstein, Oosterbeek)
(Hemelseberg, Oosterbeek)
Description: Louisa Augusta Alberta (WRATTEN) WHITE (1849 - 1921). Mrs. White was the wife of Josiah John WHITE and the sister of Jason and Frederick WRATTEN. "Frederick WRATTEN founded one of the first photographic supply businesses, Wratten and Wainwright in 1878. Wratten and Wainwright manufactured and sold colodion glass plates and gelatin dry plates. In 1878 Wratten invented the 'noodling process' of silver-bromide gelatin emulsions before washing. In 1906 Wratten with the assistance of Dr. C.E. Kenneth Mees (E.C.K. Mees) invented and produced the first panchromatic plates in England. Wratten is best known for the photographic filters that he invented and are still named after him - Wratten Filters. Eastman Kodak purchased his company in 1912."
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Christy, Howard Chandler. "Pocahontas." 1911. (William M. S. Rasmussen and Robert S. Tilton, Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend. Richmond: Virginia Historical Society, 1994. 45.)
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Via The Pocahontas Archive
© Friedrich Gahlbeck/Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-G0301-0001-009
