How the discovery of old photos exposed an ancestor’s hidden talent
A young woman’s record of rural life in Australia in the late 1800s is finally getting its day in the sun after her great-granddaughter found her work in a Sydney attic.
Photographer Blanche Violet Maher died almost a century ago, leaving behind a trove of sepia pictures depicting scenes from her privileged life in rural NSW.
After languishing in an attic for decades, these went on exhibition yesterday for the first time, thanks to the passion of her Sydney-based great-granddaughter.
