Notes: Three girls and two boys with a married woman, possibly an aunt or grandmother, and a small dog. Some of the children appear in the 'Attercliffe' series shown on other images in the collection. The flowers in the glass vase are Australian Christmas bells and hydrangeas.
Update Jan 2023
A short composition has been located via Trove in The Sun newspaper in 1929 from "Ambition" age 14 of "Attercliffe" Arthur-street, Punchbowl, see links. Arthur St in now mostly brick veneers and flats but a few earlier homes similar to Attercliffe survive on street view. It is a well written little story about a monkey and it's baby being saved from being shot by 'Dad'. The girl at left could now be 12-14 in 1929 providing c 1927-29 as a possible date, an author and a possible location.
Found among seven glass negatives in a small cardboard container marked: The Imperial Dry Plate Co. Cricklewood, London, N.W. , stamped Special Sensitive Ortho and showing recipes for the recommended developers. Some types of Imperial Glass Plate negative date to 1907-9, the company filed a patent in 1920 for roll film.
Ortho film darkens red colours which is why their sunburned faces and freckles appear so dark, as well as the Christmas bells.
Format: Photograph, scanned from a dry plate, glass negative, 4½" x 6¼".
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains Library
library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au
Part of: Local Studies Collection
Location: Punchbowl, Sydney
Provenance: Unknown
Links:
APA citation
MOTHER LOVE (1929, July 14). The Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), p. 3 (SUPPLEMENT TO THE SUNBEAMS). Retrieved January 12, 2023, from
nla.gov.au/nla.news-article222962781
