Young girl’s garden tea party, 1915

Description

This amateur black-and-white photograph shows a young girl in Queensland in 1915 participating in a make-believe tea party in the back garden, her guest a manufactured well-kept doll sitting in a child’s wooden high chair. The girl, dressed in a belted white frock, is ‘pouring’ tea from a child-size china pot into small cups placed on a tray on a circular decorated cane table. The table is covered in a hand-embroidered cloth. The girl has a large bow in her hair, long white socks and ankle-strapped black shoes.

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