Historical information

The Barry sisters ran a private music school at their home in Cumberland Street in Linton, near the present-day Catholic Presbytery. (The Catholic Church bought the land for the Presbytery from the Barry family.)
The photograph is dated by the estimated age of Jessie Blurton, one of the pupils in the photgraph, who was born in 1890 and appears to be fifteen or sixteen in the photograph.
Back row, L-R: Ivy Morgan, Gertie Lewis, Kitty Burke, Lily Hogan, Cassie McBeath.
Centre row: Jessie Blurton, Dorrie Spence, Ivy Angus, Roger O'Beirne, Vera Forsyth, Kathleen O'Beirne, Bertha Nicholls, Elsie Egan, Lizzie Burke.
Front row: Miss Gertrude Barry, two Godden boys, Gordon Bennett, Frank O'Beirne, Arthur Angus, Myrtle Bolte, Eileen Kelly, Pauline O'Beirne, Miss Dora Barry.

Physical description

Black and white copy of original photograph, which shows Dora and Gertrude Barry with a group of their music pupils, posed for a photograph outside a timber building.

Inscriptions & markings

Names of pupils inscribed on the back of the photograph.