Photograph - PETER ELLIS COLLECTION: GROUP OF MEN

Physical description

Black and white photo of seven men dressed in suits. Six of them wearing hats. Three are seated on chairs and four are standing behind them. Seated on the right is Peter Simpson, box player and beside him is Johnny, nephew of Boyce 'Jimmy' Marshall, with a fiddle. One of the other men is Jim 'Kaiser' Simpson. Information written on the back is: 'Rear left Boyce 'Jimmy' Marshall (His home, later his nephew's Johnny Fiddler - Peter Simpson, Box player his brother Jim 'Kaiser' Simpson. The house has a corrugated iron roof, possibly hessian walls, a veranda with netting strung over a pole frame, part of it hessian and part creeper. At the left is a triangular hessian covered frame and on the ground underneath are stools with a gold panning dish on the stool.

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