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Photograph, Emerald State School Football Team, Emerald State School Football Team 1921, 1921

  • A sepia display photograph of an assembled school football team, with names printed below the image.

    Emerald State School Football Team 1921 Obverse

  • The reverse of a photograph display, with velcro and a handwritten accession number.

    Emerald State School Football Team 1921 Reverse

  • A sepia display photograph of an assembled school football team, with names printed below the image.
  • The reverse of a photograph display, with velcro and a handwritten accession number.

Physical description

This item is a sepia photograph mounted on a craft foam backing, with printed labels at the upper and lower centre naming the team and players respectively. The photograph depicts 11 boys in the footballing outfits of the time (patterned jumpers, long shorts, long socks), the leftmost of them - L. Hirst - holding what appears to be an Australian Rules football. There are trees and a fence in the background.

Inscriptions & markings

Obverse, Typed, Upper Centre: "EMERALD STATE SCHOOL FOOTBALL TEAM / 1921."
Obverse, Typed, Lower Centre: "Back left F. Grange, S. Kennedy, A. Foxford, H. Brodie, / C. Stapleton. / Front, L. Hirst, J. Hirst, J. Anderson, M. Worrell, B. Davey, E. / Williams."
Numbers 1-11 handwritten in pen over each individual, left-right.
Reverse, Handwritten: "EMERALD / MUSEUM"

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