Seven Leake sisters, 1904

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Title:	Seven Leake sisters, 1904
Identifier:	archives.org.au/HMW1
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Date:	1904
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License:	This work is free of known copyright restrictions.
Related people:	Sarah Constance Lodge (née Leake) · Blanche Edith Kelsall (née Leake) · Jessie Rose Ellen Skinner (née Leake) · Rose Louisa Clifton (née Leake)
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Keywords:	H.M. Wilson Archives · HSL's collection · Tim Law Collection
Description:

The second and last time all the sisters were together since they grew up.

Standing L to R: Blanche Edith Kelsall (née Leake), Jane Adam, Jessie Skinner, Sarah Constance Lodge (née Leake).

Seated: Lady Parker, Mary Parry, Rose Clifton.

This is the same file as Commons:File:Seven Leake sisters 1904.jpg.

There are quite a few prints of this image around, and it is not yet clear how many originals there are nor what their provenance is.

Higher resolution version, from HSL's collection.

From probably the Sunday Times, 14 December 1997: Perth's society at the turn of the century had few groups more striking and influential than the seven daughters of George Walpole and Rose Ellen Leake. Leake served as attorney-general in the WA government and several of his daughters married into the legal profession. This 1904 photograph is historic in that it records only the second meeting of the seven as adults—and was the last occasion in which all were together. The sisters are, back row from left, Blanche Edith Kelsall, Jane Emily Adam, Jessie Ellen Skinner, Sarah Constance Lodge. Front, from left: Lady (Amy Katherine) Parker, Mary Susannah Parry, and Rose Louise Clifton. Battye Library 4055B/3. FAR LEFT: George Walpole Leake. Battye library 1104P. LEFT: Rose Ellen Leake. Battye Library 806B.