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Sepia Saturday 244: 6 September 2014

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This week's Sepia Saturday theme features a monkey, people in hats - it's all a bit of a circus really, though the little girl doesn't look very happy.  I think she's got the sniffles. I am delighted to be able to produce monkeys from my mother's photo album from 1950. She went to Taronga Park Zoo in the August Holidays.  She would have been 14 years old. This is her writing underneath and it says " The monkeys playing with a balloon at Taronga Park." Here's another photo. It says: After the ballon (sic) had burst the monkeys had to amuse themselves. My mother was an only child like me and no doubt had to amuse herself when she got home by pasting in the photos in her album and writing captions underneath in white ink, once the photos had been processed.   I wonder what type of monkeys these are?  I think they might be black-handed spider monkeys.   And because I am a freshly hatched Librarian and we like to classify thin...