James Smyers with Tex

Marcelle with Barney

Ipswich Girls Grammar School, Queensland 1938

Marysville, California

Flowers on the wall

Counting flowers on the wall, that don't bother me at all
Playing solitaire 'til dawn with a deck of fifty-one
Smokin' cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo,
Don't tell me, I've nothing to do...

Portrait of Marcelle

This pic was taken when I was seventeen years old and in my first year of work - trying to look like an efficient office-worker should. It was the fashion for girls and young women to roll and pin their hair over artificial rolls - not a flattering style. The War meant we were meant to be serious and 'do without' anything ephemeral in our lives - many of us never had a 'dance' dress for eg. no makeup either or personal ornaments..