Sepia Saturday 191: 24 August 2013
© Rob Steven via Flickr This week I am going to stray from my norm and give you photos found on Picture Queensland rather than from my own family albums. Rob Steven has given us such a fantastic photo that I feel nothing in my family albums is equal to the task...and besides...I do like a good hat...or bonnet. Nothing is known about the prompt image, so I could look for siblings, wives, penetrating gazes, shawls, gloves, beards, hands on shoulders or any group of three. So off we go, a hunting for bonnets and penetrating gazes Mary Ann Low 1877 - State Library of Queensland Out of copyright This is Mary Ann Low. According to State Library of Queensland she is "photographed wearing a bonnet decorated with feathers and lace ties. She has a cameo brooch on the neck of her dress." Here's another photo of her with her daughter many years later. NB. Hand on shoulder....ooh...and shawl... Mother and daughter Mary Ann Lo...