Tuesday 14 June 2011

Help solve a Puzzle!

I found this photograph at a car boot sale recently. It came with some postcards. I am wondering what sort of people they are. So far, I have imagined they might be prospectors, explorers, quarrymen, but I don't think they are cowboys. Can anyone suggest what their occupation might be? Click once and then again for a close up view. I first thought the location was America, but it might be Australia. Why? Well, the chap on the right of the three blokes at the rear seems to be wearing an Aussie hat, but the man on the extreme right (front) looks is wearing a pith helmet - sometimes known as a sola topee.

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4 comments:

  1. Andrea15 June 2011 at 08:00

    Does not ring for America at all on my first glance. Would love an even closer view of the fellow on the left -he does not fit the group. Otherwise, it reminds me of early 20th c. family get-together photos. I have seen many photos of men groups go off and do something (fish, smoke, play music) while the women are back at home.

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  2. Rosie15 June 2011 at 10:01

    Or Brazil? It looks like some of my old family photos who emigrated there from Switzerland in the twenties.

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  3. Rosie15 June 2011 at 10:03

    In fact, that man on the left could be holding one of those mate tea drinking things with a pipe on the side of the vessel, and he looks like he belongs there as opposed to the others.

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  4. Alan Redman28 June 2011 at 23:31

    Great puzzle, I have looked everywhere, The comfortable shoes give it away. Between 1910 to 1930. American lead for Australian explorers Papua New Guinea. As good as an educated guess as any. Al Redman

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