1892

Wonderful moment

Wow. But the apparent poverty is only staggering. Stark contrast to the often dapper ladies and gents in other photos in related sets. Certainly a world away from the relative affluence suggested by the clothes worn by this young fella. (Who was only a short distance and few decades removed). And the mode of dress gives our (light-hearted) "boys wear dresses to avoid kidnap" conversation a few weeks back some extra perspective. (These lads aren't eschewing trousers to avoid kidnap. They simply don't have any. They have rags. Sin é). These kids parents (if they have any) would likely be appalled by our weak bleating at the IMF, NAMA, et al.

guliolopez One great thing is that poor they may have been, but they were at school!

Great children portrait

Suffering a kind of poor we can't even imagine... yet they seem (at least for now) very happy.
I've seen group photos of poor kids where the attitude was totally different.
And although poor and going trough hardships beyond our wildest imagination, these kids also experienced a freedom we and future generations may never know.
They could run wild, they owned the streets, no mobile phones to call home with, they were trusted to walk to school, look after themselves.
I once interviewed a man who grew up in extreme poverty in the 1930s and he said; "It was only afterwards that we realised we were supposed to have been unhappy."

Now featured on this Mother's Day traincase:

Hi Penny. That is a fantastic way to use one of our images.

Mathilde Helene Lundager, née Biltoft (1860-1934), married (photographer) Jens Hansen Lundager (1853-1930), in 1882. They had seven children, two of whom died of diphtheria in 1890.

Hulda Helene Lundager, born in 1888 in Queensland, was the second oldest daughter. Later in life (1913) Hulda was a music teacher, and then (1922) a nurse at General Hospital, East Street, Ipswich. [1] [2]  

There's another photo of Hulda in the State Library of Queensland’s collection on Flickr:

                                             
 

Danish Mathilde in 1881 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StateLibQld_1_70539_Mathi... commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StateLibQld_1_71531_Mathi...

Mother and a child posing beautifully dressed.

What a beauty! (and The Beast !) From - www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Ships/Fourmast_ships/Lyderhorn(1892).html -

A four-masted steel barque built in 1892 by T.R. Oswald & Co., Milford Haven. Dimensions: 94,84×12,90×7,74 meters [311'2×42'4×25'5], tonnage: 2914 GRT and 2723 NRT. 1892 June Launched at the shipyard of T.R. Oswald & Co., Milford Haven, for J.R. De Wolf & Son, Liverpool. 1910 August 13 Sold to Knöhr & Burchard, Hamburg, and was renamed Jersbek. 1914 Interned at Corral, Chile. 1921 Returned to Europe and handed over to the French Government as war damage compensation. 1922 Hulk at Gibraltar.

Can anyone figure out where this is? Balmain?

great shot

Exceptional shot. Congrats on the Explore.

Explore! Mr Hall would have been pleased! Found it! From that "A. S. N. Hotel" (see note), which is mentioned in Trove as John and Mill Streets, Pyrmont (selling tobacco without a licence). The LYDERHORN is anchored in Pyrmont Bay, with Pyrmont in the background. We are looking almost west from about the "R" in Darling on this 1895 interactive map - www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview/?pi=nla.map-rm3443-sd&rgn=... A stone's throw from the ANMM, but almost unrecognizable to what is there now - the area has probably been rebuilt two or three times.