Item MM 30271 Glass Negative - Olive Moore, Leila Kent & Children, South Yarra, Victoria, Jul 1909

Summary

Olive Moore, housekeeper for Thomas & Kate Beckett, Leila Kent and two young children, in the garden of 'Chelmer', the family residence in St Kilda Road, South Yarra, October 1909. Photograph taken by Thomas Beckett, The two children may be Lawrence and Florence Beckett, chidren of George Beckett.

Part of a collection of glass plate negatives taken by Dr Thomas George Beckett, doctor, pioneering radiologist and amateur photographer between 1891 and 1910. The collection is primarily of Beckett's family, friends, homes, and towns and suburbs where Beckett and his family lived, including Charlton in central Victoria and Northcote & South Yarra, suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria.