SHARKEY COLLECTION - GIRLS WITH FANCY GOODS
c. 1910Sepia print. Group of nine girls in front of a wooden wall where small items such as drawstring bags, fans etc are displayed hanging from a line. Palm fronds provide decoration at either side. All girls appear to be wearing white dresses, some with coloured sashes, and the smallest one, who is standing centre front on a foldimg chair, is wearing a bonnet and clutching flowers. The print is glued onto unbleached cardboard with a a strip of pink paper on the left edge. On the rear [2nd from L Jo Sharkey, Peggy Sharkey, Maida Sharkey/ others may be Castilla and Stevens].
Jo, Peggy and Maida were children of Raymond and Edith Florence Sharkey of Wainomi, 3 Victoria Avenue. The Castilla family were friends of the Sharkeys - mentioned in letters in the document collection.
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