Man Inside Room With Privacy Curtains
c. 1895Photograph of a man with moustache wearing knee length dark pants and white shirt sitting on a carved leg chair reading a book. His bare feet are on the back of a bentwood chair A chest of drawers and a door are partly hidden by curtains plain, patterned and check attached to a rope. The wall is papered and there is a patterned mat on the floor.
From the collection of photographs and albums donated to the museum by Raymond Sharkey's family.
Raymond John Sharkey was born in 1868 in New South Wales. He was an architect, surveyor and amateur photographer. Worked for a time in Esperance and the goldfields. Married Edith Florence Ray in Melbourne on 4th October 1899. They had four children Josephine, Peggy, Maida and Bruce. Lived at the 'Appy 'Ome as a bachelor. Moved to 'Wainomi' 3 Victoria Avenue, Claremont 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 the age 41 on 22nd September 1910.
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Acknowledgements to be made to 'Claremont Museum 09.210'.
Other items by Sharkey Collection
- Amateur Photographers On The Swan River
- HMS Katomba Demonstration, Swan River Foreshore
- 'Appy 'Ome Boarders
- Raymond John Sharkey
- St John's Anglican Church, Northam
- Women In Horse Drawn Phaeton
- The Acrobat
- Street Scenes
- ''Appy 'Ome' Building With Horses
- Horse Drawn Phaeton With Two Ladies
- Men On 'Appy 'Ome' Verandah
- Victorian Gentleman
Other items from Claremont Museum
- Max The Dog, Freshwater Bay
- Judge Burnside's Picnic Tea
- Perth Yacht Club Members
- Yachts At Canning Bridge
- Yachts On The Swan River
- Rocky Bay On Swan River
- Blackwall Reach, Swan River
- Greenmount
- Elizabeth Sheppard In World War I Masseuse Uniform
- Claremont Soccer Club
- Bernard And Fanny Rider, 21 Bernard Street, Claremont
- Senior Inspector Alfred White

Source: Claremont Museum 09.210
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