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Subiaco Museum > Records

PHOTOGRAPH: ELSA LIPFERT IN TRADITIONAL GERMAN DRESS

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Overview

The black and white photograph features Elsa Lipfert standing in a garden against an ivy creeper with a basket of flowers at her feet. Elsa wears a white bonnet on her head and has two bowed ribbons placed at the ends of her plaited hair. She is wearing a Dirndl; a traditional German dress consisting of three pieces including the dress, a blouse with puffed sleeves and a laced edge apron. Elsa is holding out the skirt with both hands, has a bracelet on her upper right arm, and wears dark coloured shoes.

Historical information

One of a series of photographs of Lipfert family members.
Although Elsa was born in Australia her father came from Germany and her mother had a German father - hence the German costume. From the Lipfert home at 270 York Street, Subiaco

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-43-1990.418

Item type

Material

Photographic Paper

Width

70 mm

Height or length

130 mm

Keywords

LIPFERT, Elsa Thekla

Statement of significance

Local and social history

Subiaco Museum

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