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Subiaco Museum > Records

PHOTOGRAPH: FAMILY GROUP, PARENTS WITH FIVE CHILDREN, STUDIO IMAGE

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c. 1900

Overview

Mounted photograph of a family of seven, with two parents and five children. The subjects are all dressed in quintessential Victorian dress. The mother is seated at the centre of the image, with the father to her right, and the five children are seated around the parents. There are three boys and two girls. The eldest boy is seated to the left of his mother and is leaning up against her. Another boy is seated on the floor and is leaning up against his mother's knee, and the third boy is standing in between his father's knees. The eldest girl on right is seated and leaning up against her brother, and the younger girl on the left is leaning up against her father.

High quality image taken in a professional setting, with a picture backdrop featuring high garden walls, trees and vegetation.

The card mount is light pink in colour, and printed to the left of the image on the mount is 'TALMA / SWANSTON ST. OPP TOWN HALL. MELBOURNE', along with the coat of arms of the United Kingdom.

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-43-1999.336

Item type

Material

Photographic Materials

Inscriptions and markings

TALMA, Swanston St. opp Town Hall. Melbourne

Keywords

Decade - 1900's

Year

Statement of significance

Example of clothing and presentation of family group in Australia in Victorian/Edwardian era.

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