Kangaroo Point and Districts History Group
Collecting and preserving the history of Kangaroo Point, East Brisbane, Woolloongabba and South Brisbane.
A family on the promenade of the Brisbane River at the Brisbane Botanical Gardens. Kangaroo Point is in the background. They are wearing summer dresses and hats and two of the children have parasols.
(Photo and description Museum of Victoria collection).
This excerpt from the ‘Society Sidelights’ page of Sunday, 20 August 1905:
A very non-modern comment regarding Dr Lilian Cooper’s practical outfit when travelling in her new car to visit patients. (Minerva was the Roman goddess of wisdom.)
Read more about Dr Lilian Cooper: https://kangaroopointhistory.com.au/stories/people/dr-lilian-cooper/