Introducing the Opposition
After carefully matching photographs, we can now announce that the group above appears to be the opposition to the female football team in the last post. If you dare, there is a larger photograph HERE.
Wonder who won?
And wonder if they can now be assigned a decade from the "fashions". We still don't know.
Do You know these Women?
Is there anyone out there who can identify any of these women? Who are at the Maffra Showgrounds, wearing Maffra Rovers Football Club jumpers, some time after 1952. A better date would be good, too.
There is a larger copy HERE.
We wonder who they were they playing? Is this an early WAGS (Wives and Girlfriends) of the footballers of the time, playing a rival team's WAGs?
We have a number of photographs such as this in the collection, where with a bit of time some of the members of our community should be able to identify them. On Monday 25 July we will have a photo afternoon at the Maffra Library, 1pm to 3pm - everyone welcome to come along and see if you can spot people you know in our photographs.
Happy New Cataloguing Year
Happy new Cataloguing Year. We are currently cataloguing photographs, and this is one of the latest to take our attention.
"Taken after 1892 (I think) in Shepparton.
Grandpa Anderson (in centre)
Uncle Edmund HAWKINS (once of Maffra)
Uncle Ted MILLIGAN (of Waterloo near Ballarat)
Douglas HAWKINS (also standing)
Sitting (left to right) Stanley HAWKINS (grandpa), Aunt Bessie (Mrs Edmund HAWKINS), Garfield HAWKINS and dog (General Buller).
All three boys were born in Maffra where Uncle Edmund worked in a draper's shop prior to approx 1895, when they went to Shepparton. Stanley died of the influenza epidemic after 1st World War. Doug and Gar went to the war and were both in France - Gar as a 2nd Lieutenant, Doug (?). Gar was killed in action in France. Doug died later (at home) of war injuries. No descendants at all - family wiped out by war 1914-1918"
We are having a bit of a problem working out who is who in the adult males, but the sad part to the story is that all boys die - one in the war, one after the war from injuries, and one from the influenza outbreak immediately after. And don't we all wish this sort of detail was on the back of photographs coming into the collection.
I don't know that we have reported our cataloguing stats here before, but as of 30 June 2011, we had 3659 items in our catalogue. Of those, 1,128 had attached photographs (402 are scans of archived photos, 206 are photographs where we hold them as a digital copy only).
