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Australian (Melbourne) photographer<\/h3>\n

<\/p>\n

We have uploaded pages to celebrate the photography of Ruth Hollick,  a successful professional photographer in Melbourne during the 1920s and 1930s.<\/p>\n

Our web pages include are links to a selections of Ruth Hollick\u2019s photography including her commercial work on the portraiture of children, portraiture of well known people, her work for magazines, view photography, and some from her travels (she loved to drive around the country). There are links to essays about her life and her work.<\/p>\n

here\u2019s the link  the Ruth Hollick on photo-web<\/a><\/p>\n

The photograph above: On the first Saturday in March 1930, Miss Ruth Hollick and Miss Dorothy Izard held an event at their photographic studio in  Melbourne to celebrate the approaching marriage of Miss Lucy Washington. Photo from State Library of Victoria online archive.<\/p>\n

..and there\u2019s now a link to a page on Dorothy Izard,<\/a> another Melbourne photographer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Australian (Melbourne) photographer We have uploaded pages to celebrate the photography of Ruth Hollick,  a successful professional photographer in Melbourne during the 1920s and 1930s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1,4,3,17],"tags":[573,114,22,572],"class_list":["post-2125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equity","category-essays","category-photographers","category-photography","category-women","tag-commercial-photographer","tag-melbourne","tag-photography","tag-ruth-hollick"],"yoast_head":"\nRuth Hollick, Melbourne, photography, commercial photographer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ruth Hollick, Melbourne, photography, commercial photographer\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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