Summary
Studio portrait of Frank Lording in the Hotham Football Club uniform in 1879. He was selected for the Victorian team in the first inter-colonial football match. Hotham Football Club was later known as North Melbourne Football Club.
Frank Clifford Lording (1860-1944) was apprenticed as a glass stainer and embosser with Ferguson & Urie stained glass manufacturer as a teenager. He stayed with them until he was nearly 40, when the business closed, and subsequently set up a partnership with another former employee, Charles William Hardess, forming Hardess & Lording.
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Portrait photograph of a man in striped football uniform. He has one hand resting on the back of a chair and the other resting on a table.
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Acquisition Information
Copied from Mr Maxwell John Williams, 16 Nov 2006
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Place & Date Depicted
Hotham (North Melbourne), Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1879
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Individuals Identified
Lording, Frank Clifford
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Format
Digital file, TIFF, Black & White
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References
This image and much of its provenance is published in the publication: Molesworth Street: A North Melbourne Neighbourhood, 1840-1905 by Winsome Roberts, published by the Hotham History Project October 2002. Ferguson & Urie web site [Link 1] accessed 6/7/2015
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