Photograph - Photograph, Black and white, Mid 20th C

Historical information

Subjects: Contemporary friends of David Conolly, Lay Reader at the MTS, possibly members of the Harbour Light Guild and dance hostesses at dances for seafarers staged at the Mission on a weekly basis.

Significance

Visual Record of Ladies Harbour Light Guild member and dance hostesses of the 1950s

Physical description

Black and White Gloss print photograph of two young women in dirndle skirts and blouses, circa 1950s, standing in the outer porch of the Mission to Seafarers Building at 717 Flinders St, Melbourne.

Inscriptions & markings

Hand written in black texta; Catherine Herron, a member of the Ladies Harbour Light Guild and a friend

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