Womens football Team New Zealand Invercargill EARLY 1915 RP Postcard MUIR

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This is a RARE New Zealand postcard by Invercargill photographer Muir ,the card front dated 1915 Lewis Team lady footballers and all are named

Photographer of the Dunedin firm Muir & Moodie. Born in Dunedin; son of Mathew Bailey Lockhart Muir and Amelia, née Allen. Attended Otago Boys’ High School. After leaving school Muir worked for the Telegraph Department. Started to work as an assistant to John Turnbull Thompson in 1874, after working in the portrait studio of Peyman and Irwin, called the London Portrait Rooms in Princes Street, Dunedin. In 1877, Muir joined A H Burton in a photographic business, taking over the portraiture side of the business, and when this partnership was dissolved Muir set up his own business before establishing a partnership with George Moodie in 1898. Muir relocated to Invercargill in the early 1900s, assisted by his daughter Mona, and then left the photography profession in 1916 but the name Muir and Moodie was continued by James Webster until 1919. Husband of Mary Watten Downie; father of Mona Mary and Philip Mintaro. Muir died at the age of 93 years on 26 June 1945 at Broad Bay and was buried in the Northern Cemetery.

the card possibly needs a little more research as to the teams history but I have not seen this card before.

the card unused back exceptin  pencil Football NZ ,some edges corners wear.