Item MM 30044 Glass Negative - Alice Beckett, London, 1891

Summary

Portrait of Thomas Beckett's sister Alice Beckett, taken in London, England, 1891.

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.

Thomas Beckett and his family visited relatives in England in 1891.

Description of Content

ALICE SITTING IN A WALLED GARDEN KNITTING. A SEWING BASKET IS ON A TABLE ALONGSIDE HER.