Each week the staff who describe the digitised photographs in our collection select a photo that is added to SLQ’s Flickr Commons Photo of the week 2013 set. This week our photo is a gorgeous wedding party from the 1920s era.
This image was chosen as the photo of the week to celebrate Valentine’s Day which is observed on February 14 each year. A studio portrait from the 1920s it shows a bride and bridegroom with their bridesmaid and best man. Formal wedding portraits from the 1920s and 1930s show how much fashions have changed - both bridal wear and wedding photography, since the first half of the twentieth century. The photograph was taken by Don J. Peiniger who was based in Townsville and Charters Towers.
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