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Subiaco Museum > Records

PHOTOGRAPH: PORTRAIT OF TED AND ALEX EDMEADES

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1879

Overview

The sepia portrait has the photographer's name and address inscribed on the back in highly decorative manner. Photograph numbered 28182 by studio. Tiny print below reads 'Marion, Tmp, Paris'. The boys have an identical haircut and clothes. They are wearing velvet jackets with lace collars and knickerbockers with lace around the knee, dark stockings and buckled shoes. Little Ted has a design on his stockings and wears boots. He is sitting on a fur rug on a cork-wood box. Alex leans against the box with his legs crossed. Handwritten on back 'Ted and Alex (dad)'.

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Registration number

cwa-org-43-1985.133

Item type

Material

Photographic Paper

Width

55 mm

Height or length

95 mm

Inscriptions and markings

S.Solomon, School of Photography,51 Rundle St, Adelaide

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Statement of significance

local and social history

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