Rachel Adamson

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Rachel Adamson

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Dr. John Adamson

Photographer · 1810–1870

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John Adamson was a medical doctor and curator of the St. Andrews Literary and Philosophical Society Museum in Scotland from its formation in 1838 until his death in 1870. The Society was an eclectic group of intellectuals with a wide variety of interests; at its meetings, Adamson learned of the invention of photography from Sir David Brewster. Brewster, the newly appointed principal of the St. And

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Date: about 1862–1864
Medium: Albumen silver print
Culture: Scottish
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Portrait of a seated elderly woman, wearing a white kerchief and a black dress, reading a book. The woman is Rachel Adamson, photographer John Adamson's mother.

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