Joe & Audrey Traill: Album-1-A, pg.1-9

This is Audrey’s first of three photo albums that have come down to us. She (thankfully!) has labelled most photos and identified most people. The album begins with three photos of Joe and his siblings, Anthony & Agnes, taken in 1897 when Joe was 10 years old.

Audrey took almost all the photos in this album, taken during 1915-1927. She included photos of polo games and teams taken by professional photografers - sadly, most of these have been removed. The photos are in approximate date order, and each page is typically focused on one event or subject. Due to damp, on pages at the back of the album (pages 75+), a number of photos came unglued and were lost, and many others were damaged or heavily stained, requiring careful repair.

Repair & Recovery: Most photos had a few spots which we erased. Large stains and patches of white (where photos on facing pages had stuck to each other): (i) skies - we erased & replaced (losing birds in flight); (ii) vegetation - we replaced with identical or similar vegetation found in the same photo; (iii) walls - ditto; (iv) people’s faces - we erased spots manually at high resolution, dot by dot. (Note: We avoid automated spot removal software as it often reduces sharpness and may remove legitimate spots, e.g. eye irises, cigarette ends, buttons, etc.).

Audrey’s titles are highlighted in blue.

Page 1

Album1 - Page 01

The photos on this first page were stained with
brown cross-hatching from the album’s cover
which they faced.

Alb1.p01-A

Joe 1897

Alb1.p01-B

Anthony (1897)
Became a doctor, killed in WWI,
on his first day at a front line medical facility.

Alb1.p01-C

Agnes (189_)

Alb1.p01-D

Chirú

Alb1.p01-E

Chirú

Page 2

Chirú

Album1 - Page 02

Alb1.p02-A

Thrahing maize

Alb1.p02-C

Stacking Alfalfa
J.E.T. up
Joe is atop hay-stack.

Alb1.p02-B

Old Trap with the two bayos

Alb1.p02-D

Plowing

Alb1.p02-E

Peons

Page 3

Chirú

Album1 - Page 03

Alb1.p03-A

J.E.T. on Jap
Joe (his saddle is a recado)

Alb1.p03-C

Buena Joe
(Buena = Agnes?)

Alb1.p03-B

J.E.T. on Jap
Joe

Alb1.p03-D

G.A.T. on Jap
Agnes

Alb1.p03-E

G.A.T. on Jap
Agnes

Page 4

Chirú
1916

Album1 - Page 04

Alb1.p04-A

J.E.T. Joe
R.E.T. Ronald

Alb1.p04-C

Ronald

Alb1.p04-B

J.E.T. & R.E.T.

Alb1.p04-D

J.E.T. & R.E.T.

Alb1.p04-E

J.E.T. & R.E.T.

Page 5

Chirú
1916

Album1 - Page 05

Alb1.p05-A

R.E.T. & Remejiah

Alb1.p05-C

R.E.T. & Dominga Clara

Alb1.p05-B

C.T. D.T. R.T.
Claire Daphne Roy

Alb1.p05-D

R.E.T. R.S.T. R.T.
Ronald Dick Roy

Alb1.p05-E

R.E.T. R.S.T. R.T.
Ronald Dick Roy

Page 6

Chirú
1916

Album1 - Page 06

Alb1.p06-A

J.E.T. – before

Alb1.p06-C

Stacking

Alb1.p06-B

J.E.T. – after

Alb1.p06-D

J.E.T. R.W.T.
Joe Bob

Alb1.p06-E

Stacking

Page 7

Chirú
1916

Album1 - Page 07

Alb1.p07-A

Greyhounds & terriers

Alb1.p07-C

Mr. Garrod’s coach at Traill

Alb1.p07-B

Stacking

Alb1.p07-D

J.E.T. R.W.T. H.Spicer A.J.Sykes F.Bradbury
Driver is not listed.

Alb1.p07-E

E.A.T. J.E.T.
in Maxwell on way to Las Limpias

Page 8

Chirú
1916

Album1 - Page 08

Alb1.p08-A

F. Contrera feeding pigs

Alb1.p08-C

Blacksmith’s shop

Alb1.p08-B

F. Contrera feeding pigs

Alb1.p08-D

J.E.T. watching F. Contrera feeding pigs

Alb1.p08-E

L. or M. Chiambrettos’s house

Page 9

Album1 - Page 09

The photos on this page were probably
taken on a joy-ride to the Paraná river.
(Per caption for 9-D, & photo 9-E.)
The town of Gálvez is 50 km. east of
Chirú, about half-way to the Paraná,
the only navigable river within
400 km. of Chirú.

Alb1.p09-A