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Digital Photograph - Photographer taking shot of Group on Rocky Platform on Day Trip, Port Phillip Bay, circa 1920
Reg. No: MM 110997
- Description Of Content:
- Photographer taking shot of group of day-trippers on a rocky platform at the beach.
This photograph shows a photographer and crowd of 'day trippers' on a rocky beach, probably the back beach of Sorrento, circa 1920. Not much is know by the family about this photograph. Adrian Holloway and his mother Elizabeth Holloway, and probably his two sisters went on an outing on one of the Port Phillip ferries, either the 'Hygeia', 'Weeroona' or 'Ozone', probably to Sorrento, in the 1920s. The photograph shows unknown people on the beach, posing for a photograph, or looking at the view, with man taking a photograph in the foreground. - Acquisition Information:
- Copied from Ms Heather O'Brien, 2006
- Acknowledgement:
- Contributed by Ms Heather O'Brien
| Discipline: | History |
More information
| Themes this item is part of: | Leisure Collection, Melbourne's Biggest Family Album Collection |
| Primary Classification: | RECREATION & TOURISM |
| Secondary Classification: | Relaxation |
| Tertiary Classification: | beaches |
| People Depicted: | unknown |
| Format: | Digital Still Image: Black & White; Tiff |
| Place & Date Depicted: | Sorrento, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia, circa 1920 Place Depicted Notes: Probably Sorrento. Source of Date Depicted: contributor's estimate. |
| Photographer: | Unknown |
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