Time Travellers in Essendon, Flemington and the Keilor Plains

Directory-of-Local-Photographers

Sears, John A     30 Railway Pl, Flemington                 1900, >1901**

This photo is from the State Library of Victoria Collection, H93.406/48. 

In its comments, the library states "Embossed on mount u.r. (just visible): OSIT STATION. (Possibly SEARS? On mounts SEARS sometimes printed "OPP., STATION, NEWMARKET".)  Although the SLV dates the photo to circa 1885, it is from a later period, the younger women's hairstyles being of an Edwardian style.  The cleanshaven younger men also point to a post 1900 date.

The family in the photo may be one of the more prosperous families of Flemington.  Alternatively the family could have been from Essendon. John A Sears was listed in the 1897 Sands & McDougall Directory living in Laluma St, Essendon.   If you can identify any of the people in the photo, please get in touch.

East Melbourne Harriers and members of other harrier clubs by Sears, "Opp. Station, Newmarket and Australian Buildings, Melbourne". Circa 1900.  Courtesy of the State Library of Victoria Collection, H93.406/14