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Two teams of girls playing hockey on a field. One team is wearing white head scarves and pinafores, and the other is wearing skirts and blouses with a tie. This photographic postcard shows Katherine Daisy Kelly, playing hockey with her team, probably in Launceston, circa 1910 - 1915. Katherine 'Daisy' Kelly was the youngest of four unmarried sisters who lived together in St Georges Road, Elsternwick. She was the daughter of John Kelly, a harness maker in St Kilda. Like her sister Lena in image MM111054, she also worked for the Tax Office. The photograph was taken by a Launceston studio, probably during the tour of Katherine's hockey team. The family remembers: 'Groups of sisters like these were very common in Irish Catholic families, they were limited to Irish Catholic boys to marry and many men had died in World War I. However they appear to have led quite active and interesting lives, defying the stereotype of the 'maiden aunt'.' Another photograph of Katherine's hockey team can be found in image MM111061.

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