Photograph, Kalypso Sofianos nee Raftopoulos, c Early 1930s

Historical information

Kalypso Sofianos nee Raftopoulos is pictured in the middle. The other women are not identified. The group were photographed in Ithaca, in the village of Kioni, possibly taken shortly before Kalypso emigrated to Australia in 1936.

Significance

Young people migrating from their homeland to a foreign county and unknown culture left behind family and close friends.

Physical description

A scanned black and white photograph of three women sitting on a stone wall with a stone cottage visible on the RHS of the picture and mountains in the background. A portion of the original photograph was torn on the LHS.

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