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St. Mark's Ladies Parish Guild

Description

Media Type

Image

Item Type

Photographs

Description

Black and white photograph of dressed up women, sitting or standing in three rows, with two girls in the front row. The picture was taken in St. Mark's Parish hall. The photograph is attached to a grey coloured cardboard frame with some names handwritten around the photo and on the back.

Notes

Please check "St. Mark's Persons of Hopeful Piety" by Fred Habermehl and Donald Combe for more information on St. Mark's Women's Auxiliary.

Inscriptions

Reverse-some of the names written on back (in pencil on black background- hardly visible):
"From left to right
1st row: Mrs. Hall- Mrs. Eckersley - Mrs. Campbell-Mrs. Thompson- [?]E. Ball- Mrs. Press- Mrs. Thornton
2nd row: Mrs. Houghton- Mrs. Redhead- Mrs. Musson- Mrs. Major- Mrs. Lewitt- Mrs. Brown- Mrs. Gobert
3rd row: Mrs. Whitby [?]- F. Brackenreid- G. Allen- Miss Rowe"

Names written on the front of cardboard frame:
"Mrs. Charles Hall, Mrs. Redhead, Mrs. Musson, Mrs. Bill Campbell, Mrs. Major, Mrs. Neil Thompson, Madeleine Smith, Kathleen Ball 1890-1981], Mrs. Charles Brown, Mrs. Thornton, Mrs. Gobert [1872 - 1952], Gronny, Florence LeDoux, Mrs. Winthrop, Mrs. Houghton"

There is also a photocopy of this image on a separate piece of paper with different names:
"Mrs. Currie, Charlotte Masters Woodruff, Mrs. Harodow, Sarah Breckenridge, Mrs. Stevens, Florence Breckenridge 1912, Gertrude Allen Quinn 1898"

Date of Original