Summary
Photograph of Ellen (Nell) Amenda Baker (on right) and a fellow maid in uniform outside the home of the owners of shoe and slipper-making manufacturers in England where she worked prior to her marriage on 12 April, 1919. Both women are wearing domestic uniforms.
Ellen (Nell) Amenda Baker, born on 15/1/1896, worked in England as a scullery maid for a shoe and slipper manufacturer. John (Jack) Albert McPhee, born on 1/12/1896, had served in the Australian army during World War I, and while in England he visited his friend Charles Baker's family in Southampton where he met Charles' sister Nell. They corresponded during the War and married on 12 April 1919. Nell and Jack boarded the SS Demosthenes at Southampton on 26 July 1919 and landed in Melbourne on 14 September 1919 where they initially lived with Jack's parents in South Melbourne.
Description of Content
Two women wearing domestic service uniforms standing at top of steps of large, two-storey building.
Physical Description
Sepia photograph adhered to a brown window mount.
More Information
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Collecting Areas
Migration & Cultural Diversity, Working Life & Trades, Images & Image Making
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Person Depicted
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Format
Photograph, Sepia
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2D Dimensions - Object
280 mm (Width), 235 mm (Height)
Photo on mount
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Keywords
English Immigration, Working Life, Women's Work, Domestic Work, Shoes, World War I, 1914-1918, War Brides
