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Group photograph of a girl's hockey team. Their uniform is a cap with a tassel, a blouse, with a 'V' on the pocket, and a skirt with a stripe near the hem. This photographic postcard is a portrait of a women's hockey team from Victoria, probably on tour to Launceston, circa 1910 - 1915. Katherine 'Daisy' Kelly is fourth from the left, middle row. 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 MM111060.

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