Size
Date
Country
Artist
Sitter
Case

1/6
ca 1883
Brighton, UK
Henry Spink?
Anna Witmer
No case

Notes

Ambrotype of a shop on 110 Western Road, Brighton. Next door to photographer Henry Spink (active 1860-1890)

The shop was run by Anna Witmer (1824-1897) and assistant Ellen M. Barleigh.

Anna Witmer started in 1851 as one of two assistants of Miss Sudbury, milliner and lace dealer, on Tottenham Court Road in London.

In 1861 she was one of the assistants of a draper on 71 Western Road, Brighton.

By 1866 Anna, now 42, ran her own shop as "outfitter".

In June 1883 she advertised for a travelling companion, or a useful attendant or housekeeper, someone who's a good reader and thoroughly domesticated.

By 1884 the shop was occupied by someone else.

In 1891 Anna Witmer (67) had moved to 5 The Retreat, Wilmington, near Dartford, Kent. She lived there with a 70 year old woman called Jane Jones, both supported themselves on their own means.

Anna died of "heart disease and congestions of the lungs" at the age of 73 at a friend's house in Hampstead in 1897. She left 89 pounds to Thomas Witmer.