Item MM 110017 Digital Photograph - Crowd Farewelling Ship from Station Pier, Port Melbourne, late 1950s

Summary

Black and white photograph of people standing waving at Station Pier, taken from the departing ship, late 1950s.

Athanasia Papageorgiou and her four siblings had migrated from Greece without their parents in the late 1950s. Athanasia Papageorgiou was born in Greece in 1933. She was a dressmaker designer and had her own business in Greece. When she came to Australia Athanasia initially worked as a seamstress in the government munitions factory making parachutes. Athanasia lived in the North Melbourne area when she purchased her own home, as a single woman, in the early 1960s. After marrying Konstantinos Papadimitropoulos she bought an overlocker and worked from home sewing pyjamas, while raising two children. In 1972 the family bought a milk bar and were in this business for 20 years. Athanasia passed away on 27 July 2005.

Description of Content

A view of people standing on a pier waving, taken from the departing ship, late 1950s.

Physical Description

Black and white photograph