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A sepia photograph of family group, four girls standing behind their parents. Seated in the front row are a girl, a man, a young boy, a woman and a girl and a woman with a young child sitting on her lap. The girls are wearing knee length dresses whilst the women are wearing ankle length dresses. The man is dressed in a suit and tie. In the background is a brick house with a bullnose verandah and wooden posts with wooden semi-circular arches between the posts. The photograph is mounted on dark brown cardboard.
Myra Gladys Richardson married David William Brisbane in 1913 at the Katanning Baptist Church.
On the back of the photograph handwritten in pencil is ‘R. MAX RICHARDSON 3.3.17 MACH’
On the back of the photograph handwritten in blue ink is ‘THE RICHARDSON FAMILY C. 1916 “THE PINES” KATANNING’ and below this writing also hand written in blue ink is ‘BACK ROW L-R: EILEEN, KATHLEEN, EFFIE, DORIS
FRONT ELSA, ROBERT LAWSON RICHARDSON, MAXWELL, ELIZA, IRVINA & MYRA HOLDING HER DAUGHTER MARGARET’
This photograph is extremely significant to Katanning and Robert Lawson Richardson owned and operated 'Richardson and Co' stores across Katanning, Woodanilling(1900), Kojonup(1905), Gnowangerup(1909), Tambellup(1911), Badgebup(1912), Nyabing(1912), Broomehill(1919), Wagin(1933) and Mt Barker(1948)
An article from the Great Southern Herald dated 20 Aug 1948 detailing the expansion of Richardson & Co stores and history.
An article from the Great Southern Herald dated 13 Dec 1913 is about the wedding of Myra Gladys Richardson to David William Brisbane.
Courtesy of Katanning Historical Society.
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