SHARKEY COLLECTION - MAN DIVING IN THE RIVER
c. 1926B/W prints, (a) Three men in shorts and bathers on the bow of a yacht. They are holding lines attached to a diving helmet in the water. On the left is the foreshore with trees and a boat shed. (b) A man in bathers and a diving helmet is climbing out of the water onto a yacht where a man is standing holding a line attached to the helmet. In the background is a corrugated iron shed, picket fence and jetty where a small child is sitting. (c) Sepia. Head and shoulders of man in the river in diving suit and helmet. In the background are large trees, picket fence boatshed and the remains of a jetty belonging to Judge Burnside.
Raymond John Sharkey lived at the 'Appy 'Ome as a bachelor. Born in 1868 in New South Wales, Raymond Sharkey was an architect and surveyor and amateur photographer. He worked for a time in Esperance and the goldfields. He married Edith Florence Ray in Melbourne on October 4th, 1899. They had four children Josephine, Peggy, Maida and Bruce. Moved to 3 Victoria Avenue 'Wainomi in 1903'. While living in Claremont, worked as a draughtsman for the Public Works Department. Died of a heart attack at the Subiaco train station at age 41 on September 22, 1910.
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