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- c.1917 - 1930 (Creation)
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Photograph, 105mm x 65mm
Mounted on card, 124mm x 95mm
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Biographical history
Stephen Thomas Woodward (1858-1935) and Florence Elizabeth Woodward (1861 - 1946 nee Hopton) were married in Geelong in 1885 and had three children: Florence Agnes Woodward (1886 - 1946 married Wilmot), Violet Louise Woodward (1887 - 1951 married Portch) and Hubert Stephen Hopton Woodward (1892 - 1982).
Stephen Thomas Woodward was a coach builder in Corio Street, Geelong. His son Hubert Stephen Hopton Woodward attended Flinders State School and studied engineering at Geelong Gordon College from 1908-1911. After graduating, he worked at R.W Hill Engineer’s in South Geelong. In 1916, Hubert Woodward travelled to England and worked in an ammunitions factory in Sheffield during the First World War. He married Kate Buttery (1891-1974) and returned to Geelong to work in the engineering firm, Humble & Sons Vulcan Foundry in Little Malop Street.
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Violet Woodward and friend standing in a garden dressed in costume. Both women are wearing full length dresses with fans.
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Open
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Public domain
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- English
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Written on back of mount "The Minuet Misses V L Woodward and friend". Refer to Geelong Advertiser article titled "Ladies' Fancy Dress Dance at the Joy Ark" dated 1/10/1917 page 3. The article states "The Minuet was gracefully danced by Misses Smith and Miss Woodward who were in Early Victorian costumes. These dresses were the wedding gowns of their respective grandmothers eighty years ago".