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Photograph, Maypole Dance at Olinda, c1911

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Olinda girls practising the Maypole Dance under the tuition of Vera Devine in the grounds of 'Hillcrest', the home of Devine in 1911.
Starting with the small girl left of centre pole and going in an anti clockwise direction the names are:
Amy Allen, Jessie Ebbels, Faith Beatty, Vera Devine, Maggie Schneider, Vera Watson, Hope Barrow, Jessie Wyles, Dolly Witt (obscured), Lois Lyons, Edie Jackson, Beth Barrow, Phyllis Murray.
This photograph has a detailed inscription on the back handwritten by John Lundy-Clarke in c1974.

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Olinda girls practising the maypole dance under the tuition of Vera Devine in the grounds of 'Hillcrest', the home of Devine in 1911.
Girls, starting from left and circling across the front then round the back to finish at the left are -
1. Lois Lyons
2. Edie Jackson
3. Beth Barrow
4. Phyllis Murray
5. Amy Allen
6. Jessie Ebbels
7. Faith Barrow
8. Vera Devine
9. Maggie Schneider
10. Vera Watson
11. Hope Barrow
12. Jessie Wyles
13. Dolly Witt barely seen, the tallest there.

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OLI0001

Date made

c1911

Place made

Victoria, Australia

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