eHive Object Details

Name/TitleMiriam Louisa Hart : Old Melbourne Cemetery, Jewish section, c. 1920

About this objectPhotograph of a rectangular tombstone with a rounded top set in front of a hedge and fence.

Selby tells us that, "Asher Hyman Hart applied for land in the Old Cemetery, and an acre was granted to the Jews... Louisa Hart died at 44." (pp. 174, OPMHoM)

The inscription reads: (425 in Selby's grave index p. 399 OPMHoM)

10 lines of Hebrew
Beneath this lieth deposited
Miriam LOUISA the beloved wife of M. J. HART
Who Departed This Life (Gothic script)
On The 18th February 1849 Interred On The 19th
May Her Soul Rest In Peace

This burials was among the few that remained in the Jewish section after the first market expansion in 1877.

This image is attributed to Everard Studley Miller who photographed many graves and tombstones in the Old Melbourne Cemetery (established in 1837) around 1920 as part of a project led by Isaac Selby to record and commemorate all aspects of Melbourne's second cemetery (the first being at Flagstaff Hill). The RHSV holds original glass negatives and albums of the photographs from this project.

One of the many glass slides purchased from retailers or specifically made for illustrated lectures given by Isaac Selby between c. 1930 and c. 1955 to raise money for the Old Pioneers Memorial Fund.

For more information about this image contact Royal Historical Society of Victoria.

MakerMiller, Everard Studley, 1886-1956.

Maker RolePhotographer

Measurements8.2 x 8.2 cm

Period1910-1920

Object TypePhotograph

Subject and Association KeywordsSelby, Isaac, 1859-1956

Subject and Association KeywordsMiller, Everard Studley, 1886-1956.

Subject and Association KeywordsOld Melbourne Cemetery (Melbourne)

Subject and Association KeywordsJewish community

Subject and Association KeywordsMonuments and memorials

Subject and Association KeywordsWomen

Named CollectionImages collection

Object numberGS-TM-27

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