ABSTRACT
Newland’s movement between Australian colonial cities was precipitous, propelled by ebbs and flows in patronage. In late February 1849 he travelled from Hobart, the most populous city in Van Diemen’s Land, to the secondary settlement of Launceston, a transit port for both Pacific and Indian Ocean traffic. Newland’s advertisement, on the same page of the Bengal Hurkaru and Indian Gazette, beginning in the same month, stated that his daguerreotype Studio was open from 10am until 4pm with no such discrete windows based on the sitter’s sex. David Cannadine argues that class as much as race dictated status and influenced the creation of a social hierarchy that consolidated British industry and wealth on the Indian subcontinent. Disease and infection among the British population was proportionally higher in India compared to other colonial sites. Annie’s ayah’s position, both in dress and in profession, was that of an individual who sat at the nexus between British and Indian worlds.
