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Mavis Pittaway. [PRG 1675/3/4/V] • Photograph

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Summary

Studio portrait of Mavis Pittaway, approximately 9 years old, wearing a dark knee-length dress with three-quarter length sleeves and a lace collar, knee-high socks, and a bow in her hair which has been styled in ringlets. She is standing at a wooden table, holding open a book. Written on reverse: 'To Auntie Edie & Uncle John From Mavis 1917. Dear Edie, I haven't one left with her hat on so I am sending you this one and I am sending one like it to Ada and Will. I didn't know I had them till now. R.' Mavis Pittaway was born in 1908 to Robert Charles Pittaway and his wife Alice Maud (nee Moyle) in Broken Hill. She died tragically in a fire at her home in Broken Hill on 8 December 1924 at the age of 16. Her father Robert, an older brother to Edith Maud Reid, died in 1922 after a fall from a horse riding accident.

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Physical description

Photographs (prints)
black and white
Photograph (black and white print), 13.7 x 8.8 cm.

Dates / Publication details

1917

Creator

Reid, Effie

Subject

Zacher, Frederick William, 1876-1942
Zacher, Mary Sophie, 1882-1961
Dimock, Elizabeth Sarah Grace, 1901-
Dimock, Frederick George, 1902-1952
Dimock, Rose Hilda May, 1903-
Pittaway, Jane, 1851-1914
Pittaway, Mavis, 1908-1924
Pittaway, Allen, 1924-2010
Pittaway, Colin, 1928-1995
Pittaway, Walter James, 1882-1950
Pittaway, Jessie, 1886-1958
Clothing and dress -- South Australia
Wedding costume -- South Australia
Children -- South Australia

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Date

16/12/2015

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5,571 x 3,634 pixels (20.2 MP)

Size

60.76 MB

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