Hello listers >I am trying to solve a mystery and hope listers can check their family >photos for an answer: > >Photographers Ballarat >Sturt Street >I have: ROBERTS brothers Sturt Street Ballarat 1850-1869 well documented > and: ROBERTS brothers 10 Sturt Street Ballarat 1875 well documented > >But the person I am interested in is , I think, one of the brothers, who >apparently acted alone in Sturt Street for a time. The card reads > > ROBERTS J.H. Sturt Street Ballarat >The clothing on the four Carte de Visite mounted photos appears to be late >1860s or very early 1870s and would fit in with the 1869-1874 break of >Roberts Bros shown above. But I would like better evidence than my eye for >clothing > >Question 1 : are there any Ballarat directories for this period (and where >are they accessible), or will I have to visit Ballarat PRO to look at rate >books? > >Question 2 : Have any listers any photographs by ROBERTS (brothers or >J.H.) in their family collections that they can date to my timeframe? > >This is to answer an email query on two supplied photos (I have two >examples in my own collection of the same photographer (all not related >to me, so exact date unknown, except by dress) and not a single example of >ROBERTS brothers of Ballarat, hence my request to listers. >If he's using the same furniture (a three-quarter-length sopha with >contrast parallel piping on the rounded "head-end") as the brothers, that >would clinch it, I feel. This strange upholstered "chair" looks like it >may have been specially made for the photographer, as I've seen no other >photo anywhere with this type of posing chair. > >Thanks for any knowledge you may be able to pass on. It may help the >present enquirer and help others in future, as I receive a few of these >types of queries. > > >regards, >Ada Ackerly, Melbourne, Australia >formerly Ackerly DocuSearch regards, Ada Ackerly, Melbourne, Australia formerly Ackerly DocuSearch