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  Photo Rescue!
This page created 24 Jul 1998
Last updated 30 May 2008
  Last  photo added 30 May 2008       

A project to re-unite orphan photos with their lost families.
Most of the photos are Australian, but some have been sent here from friends and relations in England,
Scotland, Wales,  New Zealand, and  Rhodesia.
 Note that the newest photos are located at the bottom of this page

PHOTO RESCUE NEWS
News of photos which have found a home
Updated 1 April 2008
 
Other photo sites
PictureAustralia
Search a number of linked databases to find photos of Australiana.
Photos rescued from Op shops by my friends
Picked up by Jim & Megan in op shops. There are only two first names amongst the lot of them. (Oh dear!) Most appear to have been taken in Victoria between 1890 & 1950. 
Picture Victoria
A project of the State Library of Victoria to link photo databases in Victorian libraries. 
Tasmanian Photos - can you identify these?
Maureen Martin's Webpage

Unidentified Family Photos
Australian website with mystery photos to be identified.
Ken McInnes's Family Photo Album
Ken seeks help in identifying some of his photos.

ANDREA BALCOMBE'S PHOTOS
Andrea also has some Australian photos to return to their families. These photos are not included in the index below.
Victorian Photographers in the British Isles
Compiled by Christine Hibbert from her private collection.
Launceston Family Album
Discover the stories behind the names and portraits of 1179 people who held passports to attend the Tasmanian International Exhibition of 1891-1892.
 

About Photo Rescue!

This is one of those projects which seemed like a good idea at the time.  I started Photo Rescue! in a fit of madness upon seeing a postcard in an antique shop of two little boys in cadet uniform (See 93/1 later).  It seemed a shame to leave them there when somewhere out there might be some descendants who would give their eye-teeth for such a photograph.

I already had a small collection of unrelated photos from when I was preparing my book Dating Family Photos.   Several photos found loving homes after people recognized them in the book when it was published.  This encouraged me to think that perhaps I could find homes for other photos languishing in second hand shops and antique shops, so I collected a few more.  After I started the project I was given a few more photos.

I intended to recover the cost of the purchases and the photocopying, postage and packing involved with distributing the index and photos, but I occasionally found some resistance to the notion of paying for the photos, and the difficulty and expense of getting the information broadcast widely enough proved too onerous. The project went into a decline.

Now, on the World Wide Web, it is an idea whose time has come!  I can distribute the information more easily, and reach a lot more people.  However, there are still costs involved, (recovery of cost price and outward postage and packaging of photos), and I expect to be reimbursed for the cost of the purchase of the photo and postage.

Most, but not all, photos cost under $10.


Enquiries
Read all of this Section before proceeding

1    The index for the photos follows this explanation, and the detailed descriptions of the photos are after that in numeric order.
2    If you think you recognise a possible relation you can email me lenore.frost@optusnet.com.au   for further details, and I will let you know whether there are other associated photos, and the fee for the photo.
3    PLEASE DON'T email me to ask me if I have a copy of Fred Bloggs your ancestor - if he isn't on the list on this page, I haven't got him.
4    PLEASE DON'T ask me to keep a lookout for a photo of Fred Bloggs, as I won't be keeping a list of "Wants", nor is it likely that I would stumble upon the photo of any particular individual - or place, for that matter.
5    PLEASE DON'T send me stray photos you have which have no identifying information on them. If you do have stray unidentified photos not belonging to your family, my best suggestion is to send them to the Historical or Family History society covering the area in which the photographer was based - if the photographer's studio was listed.
6    PLEASE DON'T ask to browse through the photos on the off-chance of finding a relative.  I don't have the time to give to non-specific enquiries.
7    I DON'T give advice about photo restoration, nor how to do it, nor where to go to get it done.

My apologies to anyone who wouldn't dream of doing anything in items 3 to 7, but I have had these enquiries in the past, and I haven't the time to deal with them.

All that being said, check out the index.  If you don't see anything there, do go and browse through the descriptions at the bottom of the page, as there are further clues contained therein.


Photo Rescue! Index
    Some examples of the photos listed below have been placed on a separate page.  Click on the highlighted number to view the picture.
  A more detailed description of each photo can be located after the index, at the bottom of this page listed numerically by the Ref No in the far right column.

Surname First name(s) Age Period Place/Studio  Comments Ref No

Annie 20 1900-1910 Victoria? Man and woman JB5

Arthur and  Evan  14, 12 1911-1920 Australia To Aunt Flo 1/93

Billie (male) 20s 1920s? Moonee Ponds, Vic 24 Addison St, Moonee Ponds 31/93

Emma
20s
1887
Prahran, VIC
Carter Album
103/03

Dick 
c 1910 Glebe, NSW card to Ethel Taylor 16/93

Flo & little girl  35, 6 1940 Sydney, NSW To Hilda 53/94

 Florence Hildegard 3 mths 1907 Kapundah, SA
2/93

Gabriel  30s 1906 Ballarat, Vic Woman 23/94

Hilda 

  Recipient of a group of photos from Bridlington , 
Bradford, & Leeds ENG & Sydney
50-65/94

Jim
1918 Campsie, Sydney, Melbourne Features a farm called "Eckersleigh" 27/94 
ALBUM

Maggie, Ken  18, 12 1917 Sheffield, ENG  see Jim above 27/94

Marjorie 25 c1950 Melbourne
JB4

Ruby, Jim  20s 1915 Stawell  AIF officer, & girl  20/94 

Viva 3 1918
Tiny girl  22/94

Walter 6 months Nov 1928 Camberwell, Vic Baby son of Annie 88/01
Surname First name Age Period Place/Studio Comments Ref No
Allen Ronald James 2 1910-1920
Postcard 89/01
Archer 

12
1915-1925
Yeoman & Co, Prahran
Boy Scout, Windsor Troop
122/07
Barbour
Beulah

1910
Mount Morgan, Qld
Merit Certificate
117/06
Batchelor J c 30 1923 Saroney, Melbourne Lifesaving instructor 81/99
Brown  William

Burnside Tce [UK] Address on photo
27/94 
Cannon E
1880s
Bootmaker's shop 93/01
Carter
Emily, Miss

1880s-1880s
ALBUM

103/03
Coleman  Alan  18 mths c1920 Salisbury, Rhodesia White infant held by black man  27/94
Cox
Lillian M
born 1877

Bermondsey, UK
birthdate in Album
103/03
Cox William 60 1890s? Warrnambool Roll of Honour Date 1857 on photo may relate to arrival in Warrnambool? 87/01
Davis William J
1931 Geelong, Vic Presentation Certificate 19/93 Framed certificate
Dobson   Edward
early 20s
circa 1901
Sydney, NSW
Man in suit
113/05
"Dudley House"

1921 Hepburn Springs, VIC Group photo at guesthouse 6/94 
"Eckersleigh"

1920 NSW? Farm gate  27/94
Egan   Ellen
30s
circa 1878
South Australia
Woman
114/05
Feehan Ivy, Scottie  20s 1913 
Couple in fancy dress  18/93 
Ferguson

30s
1880s
Melbourne, VIC
Woman
103/03
Franz Dorothea 25 1909 Vic Bride 74/94
Freud
Phyllis
2 years
1907 or 1904

Girl
106/03
Gabriel 30s 1906 Ballarat  Woman  23/94 
Galt C 20s 1914
AIF corporal, with spurs 80/99
Goodall 
Barry Leonard
13 months
c 1948

Infant with stuffed toy dog
124/07
Gott  Flora & daughter  40s c1928 Bridlington, ENG Holiday snap  51/94 
Grieve (Greene?) 30s 1927  Flinders, VIC Woman, holiday snap 66/94
Harding  David Malcolm 6mths c 1922  VIC Snap of infant and young woman

4/93
Harvey
Hilda
10
c 1906
Delta Studio, Daylesford, Vic
Girl
125/08
Henderson

25
1870s
Melbourne, VIC
Woman
102/03
Hildegard  Florence  3 mths 1907 Kapundah, SA 
2/93
Iredale Mrs M & Family


Bereavement card 85/01 Card
Jewell
Charles W
40s
c 1880s
Heath & Bullingham, George St, Plymouth
Balding man in his 40s
108/03
Jinkins
Susie
30s
1882
Melbourne, VIC
Woman
102/03
Jinkins
Willie
infant
29/3/1882
Melbourne, VIC

102/03
Johnston    Ellen
30s
circa 1878
South Australia
Woman
114/05
Kelly William Henry
33 yrs
circa 1920-1940

Man on horseback
121/06
Kimminton  May Teens c1928 Bridlington, ENG Holiday snap 50/94
Lister & Co

1920 Bradford, UK Soccer team, with trophy  55/94
McFarlane Mr
1936 Pascoe Vale, Vic Letter to McFarlane from the Good Shepherd Convent 86/01 Letter
Mackay
Phoebe





McKinnon
Ethel Rose
14
1899
Vic
Bereavement card, do James
99/02
Malcolm B 20 1923 Saroney, Melbourne Woman lifesaver 81/99
Marcollo J about 20 1923 Saroney, Melbourne Woman lifesaver  81/99
Mare?
Grace
12
1880s
London, UK
Girl
103/03
Mare
M J
50s
1880s
London, UK
Woman
103/03
May Norman 6 mths 1940s?
Infant
3/93
Moon or Noon
Florence A S
40s
1880s
Melbourne, Vic
Carter Album
103/03
Northcote Technical School  Year 10

1982



112/05
Perl M M, Dr
1902
Four people 91/01
Raveling Dorothea



75/94
Raveling Elsa aged 5 c1916 Vic
75/94
Raveling Frieda aged 2 c1916 Vic
75/94
Raveling  Jacobus 20s c 1910 Middle Park, VIC 197a Page St 73/94
Reed
Raymond V
2 years
18 Jan 1915
Ainar Studio, Auburn, NSW

105/03
Rees

Thomas
 about 20
circa 1880s
Roger Williams, 63 Brecon Rd, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales

126/08
Roach
George Edwin
about 10
late 1880s
Rider, Williamstown
Carter Album
103/03
Roach
Hector Charles
About 5
late 1880s
Rider, Williamstown
Carter Album
103/03
Roach
J, Mr


Kent, England
Address in album
103/03
Roach
Joseph Edwin
about 40
late 1880s
Rider, Williamstown, Vic
Carter Album
103/03
Robinson   Angus 20 c1910

32/94
Robinson  Ethel
2
c 1910s
Arthur L Taylor, Cairns, Qld
Two little girls in sailor suits
116/05
Robinson  Lucy
4
c 1910s
Arthur L Taylor, Cairns, Qld
Two little girls in sailor suits
116/05
Rohde
Christina
28
1899
Vic
Bereavement card, d. o. Johannes & Mary Ann
100/02
Ryder
E
30s
1879
San Francisco, USA
Man
102/03
Scott  Beth 3 mths 1940s?

29/94
Scott L 20s 1923 Saroney, Melbourne Woman Lifesaver 81/99
Smith Stanley 20s 1915 Darge, Collins St, Melb Private 3484, 9th Reinforcements, 60 Battalion, 15 Brigade, AIF 96/01
Stewart  Douglas Lauriston 12 mths 1915

5/93
Taylor  Ethel, Miss 
c1910 Petersham, NSW card from Dick 16/93
Taylor
Nellie, Mrs

1870s-1880s

ALBUM
102/03
Todd [male]  about 25 c 1880 Melbourne From Muir Album 82/00
Townsley Harold 30s c1910 UK Cricket team. Wife's name Millie 54/94
"Truro" 

1930s Prince St, Springvale, VIC House 28/94
Tulley
William Thomas
21
1870s
David Rees, London, UK

97/02
Watts E 20s  1923 Saroney, Melbourne Woman lifesaver 82/99
Webb Elsie
c1910 Redfern, NSW Teacher with class 17/93
Wiltshire J O
1880s Avoca, Vic? Produce dealer 92/01
Wright   John Alfred
18
1918
Collingwood
AIF uniform
115/05
Young
Rachel  Mary
49
1900
Melbourne
Woman
128/08
Young Thomas Geo Bynon
29
1900
Melbourne
Man in boater
127/08

FOLLOWING IS A MORE DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EACH PHOTO

Details of Photos
 As at 30 May 2008
Keep in mind that the place at which the photo was purchased is not necessarily the place it was taken, as many will have been posted to friends and relatives, moved with their owners or bought by dealers.

Ref No     Date        Place taken     Remarks
1/93           WW1      Australia            Two boys, aged about 14 and 12, cadet uniform.
                                                           "To Aunty Flo with love from Arthur and Evan".
                                                            Postcard. Purchased Maldon, Vic



2/93          26.3.1907 Kapunda,         "Mamma's Pet. Florence Hildegard 3 months. wishing you a happy wellcome".
                                     Sth Aus          Cabinet photo.  Photographer: S A  Oats, Kapunda
                                                           Purchased Maldon, Vic



3/93          c 1930s                              "Norman May, 6 months old". Snap
                                                             Purchased Maldon, Vic

4/93          c 1922                               "David Malcom Harding, aged 6 months". Infant
                                                             held by young woman wearing glasses.
                                                            The AWM WW2 Nominal Roll lists a David Malcolm Harding, born Feb 1922
                                                             in Fitzroy, living in Preston at the time of his enlistment.                                                                                                              married Ivy Mabel Savage, who died 1972 in  Heidelberg, Vic, aged 50.
                                                             Snap Purchased Kyneton, Vic

 5/93      1915                                        "Douglas Lauriston Stewart age 12 months".
                                                                Postcard. Purchased Kyneton, Vic
                                                                Douglas Lauriston Stewart, b Elsternwick, 1914, son of Harold
                                                               and Ellen Eliza nee Elles.


6/93    1921-22    Hepburn                   "Dudley House, Xmas 1921-22"  Large group
                               Springs, Vic             portrait at the back of the house. Purchased
                                                                Essendon.


16/93  c 1906-10 Sydney, NSW          "Dick" of 149 St Johns Rd wrote a card to Miss
                                                            Ethel Taylor of 'Vryallah',  Wentworth St, Petersham,
                                                            and said "The group photo is of 'our section at the
                                                            College" .
                                                             Postmarked Glebe, NSW. Purchased Ephemera
                                                             Fair, Malvern, Vic


17/93  c 1906-10 Sydney, NSW         School room of girls aged about 8 with a female
                                                            teacher.  Notation  "Elsie Webb",   Eaton St,
                                                            Redfern.  Purchased Ephemera Fair, Malvern,
                                                            Vic


18/93  1913                                        "Ivy and Scottie Feehan 1913".
                                                            Couple in nautical costume. Postcard.
                                                            Purchased Essendon, Vic


19/93  1931        Geelong, Vic    Certificate.  "Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffalos
                                                            Grand Lodge of England, Geelong Lodge No 28.
                                                            William J Davis initiated into the mysteries of
                                                            Buffaloism,  etc... 2nd Feb 1931."  Witnesses: C H
                                                            Fleet, A Watson,  A J Berry (Sec).
                                                            Purchased in Essendon, Vic


20/94  1917 Stawell, Vic                   "To Lottie and Ted with best wishes from Ruby
                                                            and Jim 25/12/1917".  Cabinet photo.  A young
                                                            couple, the man in AIF officer's uniform, both aged
                                                            about 20, possibly brother and sister. Taken at
                                                            Stawell.
                                                            Purchased Essendon, Vic



22/94  1918                                      "Viva - Jny '18".  Snapshot of tiny blonde girl aged
                                                            about 3.  Purchased Ascot Vale, Vic


23/94  c 1906 Ballarat                       "(1) & 1.36 B Gabriel"  Studio portrait of a woman
                                                           aged about 30. Purchased Ascot Vale, Vic


27/94  1918   NSW   Album.           "From Jim 11th March 1918".  Features two young
                                                                women, sometimes in nurses'  uniform, on a farm
                                                                holiday, and later on a ship going to UK c1920.
                                                                The farm is called "Eckersleigh".  Ship called
                                                                'Paparoa'. Also photos in Melb and Syd. Names
                                                                included: "Alan Coleman & boy John, Box 510
                                                                Salisbury,Rhodesia". Loose snaps include ship
                                                                SS Australis' tour group c 1978, Australia to
                                                                Southampton. Also 'RHMS Ellinis', circa 1970s.
                                                                Postcard sent to Miss T Brown, 15 Victoria Cres,
                                                                Lowan-hill, Glasgow. Maggie & Ken; William
                                                                Brown.
                                                                Purchased Ascot Vale, Vic  

28/94  c 1930s Springvale, Vic               "Truro", Prince St, Springvale".  Snap.
                                                                Purchased Blackburn, Vic


29/94  c 1940                                         "Beth Scott age 3 mths".  Snap
                                                                Purchased Blackburn, Vic


31/94  c 1920s Moonee Pond            "To all at "Glenelg" wishing them a happy Xmas
                                                                from Billie & his mother, 24 Addison St Moonee
                                                                Ponds.  Billie's room upstairs". Photo of a man,
                                                                mid 20s, sitting in a loft window.
                                                                Purchased Blackburn, Vic  

32/94  c 1910                                         "Angus Robinson."  Postcard of a man aged
                                                                about 20. Three other photos in this set.
                                                                Purchased Dunolly, Vic


50/94   c1928-30 Bridlington, UK        "May Kimminton with Lilian.  Hilda will know
                                                                 her."  Holiday post card of two teenage girls.
51/94  c1928-30 Bridlington, UK         "Flora Gott and her daughter with us".  May
                                                                 and Lilian of previous picture with some
                                                                 older women on the beach.  Postcard.
53/94  1940         Sydney, NSW             "To Dear Hilda with sincere love from Flo
                                                                  Easter 1940, Sydney."  A woman of about 35
                                                                  in glasses with a little girl of 6 years.
54/94  c 1910                   UK                 "Man on right Harold Townsley.  He and
                                                                   his wife Millie good friends of Mum and
                                                                  Dad".  Postcard of cricket team.  Harold
                                                                  looks about 35.
                                                                  Note: Advice from Brian Townsley suggests that Harold Townsley
                                                                  might be the "son of Joseph & Emma Townsley, who was born about
                                                                  Feb 1888 in Bradford, Yorkshire - probably at 18 Heaton Road,
                                                                 Manningham, Bradford." 
For further information re Townsley see
                                                                  Brian's webpage -
  Townsley Family History
55/94  1920                  UK                     "Lister & Co, Interworks, 1920".  Postcard
                                                                 of what appears to be a soccer team, with trophy.
                                                                
Brian Townsley comments re this photo "most likely relates to the
                                                                 Lister's Woollen Mill in Manningham, Bradford - the largest in
                                                                 the city (in the days when wool was a major industry for Bradford
                                                                 and the local newspaper listed Australian wool prices on a daily basis!)
                                                                 This would tie in with the address of Harold's parents."

                                                                  NOTE:  Several other un-named photos associated with above 6, 
                                                                  taken in Leeds and Bradford, UK



66/94  1927 Flinders, Vic                     "N Grieve [or Greene], Flinders 1927".  Woman of
                                                            about 30 in front of a Great War Monument near
                                                            the sea. Purchased at Prahran, Vic


73/94  1905-10 Middle Park, Vic     "M Raveling, 197A Page St, Middle Park, Sat
                                                             Morning".  Fair haired man with handle-bar
                                                              moustache, aged about 25.
74/94   1909                                       Wedding portrait of above man & wife
75/94  c 1916                                     Portrait of above woman and girls aged  about 5
                                                             and 2.    Purchased Essendon, Vic
                                                          
Details from Vict BDM indexes reveal the marriage of Jacobus RAVELING,
                                                           born Holland, to Dorothea FRANZ,  in 1909.  They subsequently had two
                                                           daughters, Frieda Dorothea, b 1911 South Melbourne, and Elsa Myra
                                                            Helena, b 1913 Camberwell.  Dorothea Raveling's father's name was Feliz
                                                            FRANZ.  Dorothea died in Camberwell in 1945, aged 61, and Jacobus died
                                                             in Greensborough in 1953 aged 71.



80/99    14 Nov 1914                  "Sincerely yours, C Galt, 14-11-14". AIF corporal
                                                        with spurs, fair-haired man in twenties.
                                                       The AIF Nominal Roll shows only one Galt who enlisted
                                                       as early as 1914, Lt Charles Galt, 8th F.A.B.  He
                                                         enlisted  18/8/14 and Returned to Australia 3/7/19.
                                                        The AIF Nominal Roll gives the highest rank achieved,
                                                        so the Lieut. may have started off as the Corporal in
                                                        the photo.  National Archives records show a Lt
                                                        Charles Galt, Place of Birth, Rushworth, Place of
                                                        Enlistment, Maribyrnong, next of kin, mother, Mrs W
                                                        Galt.   He may be the Charles Galt born Rushworth, Vic
                                                         1888, parents William Galt and Mary Ann nee Smith.
                                                         Postcard. Purchased Ballarat, Vic 

81/99   1922-23                                 "Winners of Lifesaving Championship of Victoria
                                                            1922 + 23.  J Marcollo, E Watts, J Batchelor (Inst),
                                                            L Scott, B Malcolm."   "To Mr Batchelor with
       &n