Group of 9 people, c. 1900

OBJECT TITLE / NAME

Group of 9 people, c. 1900

DATE1900

MEDIAImage

PHOTOGRAPHERKodak

COLLECTIONHastings-Western Port Historical Society

REG NO.P264

HISTORY

This group contains Hastings identities. Printed on the back is: “Post Card correspondence address only Kodak Australia” and written in blue ink is: “W.P. Myers”.

DESCRIPTION

This image shows a group of nine people posing for a photograph in bushland. Two woman and three men are standing and the back with a small boy standing in front of them. Two men and a woman are sitting in the front on the grass. The woman on the left-hand side of the image is wearing a white long sleeved outfit with an overlay on each side of the skirt. Her hat has a dark band with flowers. The woman on the right-hand side is wearing a black suit with a white blouse. Her hat has protective netting coming around her shoulders. The woman sitting on the grass has a light coloured coat over her clothes and a large dark hat. All the men are wearing three-piece suits, hats and have beards and moustaches. The boy has short, fair hair and is dressed in a sailor suit. There is bushland all around them and bracken fern can be seen in the foreground. Part of a horse can be seen in the background.

SUBJECTS

Bushland, Clothing and dress, Families, Pioneers

KEYWORDS

Myers, W. P.