Jane Tost b. c.1817

Also known as Ada Jane Rohu
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Taxidermist in partnership with her daughter Ada Jane Rohu. For over forty years (1860-1900) Jane Tost and Ada Jane Rohu were the most consistent and most successful NSW women exhibitors at international exhibitions, winning at least twenty medals between them.
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associate of
Royal Society of Tasmania, TAS
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Tost & Rohu
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British Museum, England, UK
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Hobart Town Museum, TAS
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Australian Museum, NSW
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Victoria Theatre, Pitt St, Sydney, NSW.
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Agricultural Society of NSW, NSW
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References [<ExternalResource: Sear, Martha (March 1996), '"Most Curious and Peculiar": Women Taxidermists in Colonial Sydney', Sydney, NSW : Mackay Museum exhibition leaflet, .>, <ExternalResource: Sear, Martha (March 1996), 'Nineteenth Century Women's Work Exhibitions', Sydney, NSW : PhD thesis (in progress) Sydney University, .>, <ExternalResource: Marion Theobald (1 January 1996), '"The Queerest Shop in Sydney."'.>, <ExternalResource: Tyrell, James R. (1952), 'Old Books, Old Friends, Old Sydney', Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Strachan, Ronald (1979), 'Rare and Curious Specimens', Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: 'Australian Museum Archives', Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: 'Archives of the Royal Society of Tasmania', Hobart, Tas.>, <ExternalResource: (1893), 'Art and Handicraft in the Women's Building : World's Columbian Exposition', Chicago, IL, USA.>, <ExternalResource: 'New South Wales Death Records : 706/1889', New South Wales.>] [<ExternalResource: Sear, Martha (March 1996), '"Most Curious and Peculiar": Women Taxidermists in Colonial Sydney', Sydney, NSW : Mackay Museum exhibition leaflet, .>, <ExternalResource: Sear, Martha (March 1996), 'Nineteenth Century Women's Work Exhibitions', Sydney, NSW : PhD thesis (in progress) Sydney University, .>, <ExternalResource: Marion Theobald (1 January 1996), '"The Queerest Shop in Sydney."'.>]