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A Mesopotamian campaign album

Part of the pleasure of collecting old photographs and negatives is the challenge of trying to reunite stray pictures and collections with their stories - as far as it is possible. This collection of negatives was bought at an antique fair in the Hunter Valley some years ago and sadly was accompanied by no information. I quickly ascertained that it came from a person who had been involved in the Mesopotamian campaign of The Great War. This was clear because some of the negatives were actually labelled as Kut el Amara, 1917. This was the scene…

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Newcastle Post Office staff, 1949.

A gallery of workplace photos: Part 2

Group photos of employees in their workplaces aren't as common today as they once were. But I've gathered a selection from a variety of sources. Here is part 2 in the series. Newcastle Hospital staff, circa 1940s. Staff of P. Johnson and Co (later Stylemasters), makers of menswear, Darby Street Newcastle, circa 1930s. Krempins seed store, Hunter Street Newcastle, circa 1945. L to R: Edith Krempin, Laurel Blakemore, Biddy Hill, Nina Longworth, Norma Atkinson, Harry Krempin, Jack Krempin?, Roger Cecil (far right) Casben clothing company, Weston, circa 1957. Photo from Bernie Peel. Morison and Bearby engineering,…

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Newcastle Herald staff picnic December 12, 1936

A gallery of workplace photos: Part 1

It's not so fashionable these days, it seems, but there was a time when group photographs of people at their workplaces were standard fare. Here is a gallery of workplace photos, mostly from Newcastle, NSW. A staff photo from Newcastle's BHP steelworks in 1935 - the company's jubilee year. The photo came from Mrs Jan Collins, whose mother, Esme Moodie, is in the picture. Esme married Christopher Windsor in 1933, but kept her maiden name at work. She left work in 1936 to raise her family. Her husband was a crane driver at BHP's open hearth…

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