Diaspora Vintage Portraits/ People

Tess Mallos Tess Mallos takes a great pride in her Greek heritage. Her parents from the Greek island of Kythera - emigrated to Australia where she was born and raised in a country town. [Tess's father was Andonis Caloped...

Vince Kalokerinos sitting alongside the plaque presented to him by the people of Curtin in 2000 for his many years of service to the Curtin community (1971-2003). His widow, Viola, has maintained the business with the sa...

Mother Irene Georgopoulos (Tzortzopoulos) with son Minas in sitting room of home in Detroit, Michigan/ Dressed in his Evzone costume

Minas Theodore Georgopoulos (Tzortzopoulos) as a young boy dressed in an Evzone costume. Detroit, Michigan

Couple on the left are unknown to me. The young boy is Minas Georgopoulos (Tzortzopoulos), and the couple on the right are his parents Theodore and Irene Georgopoulos, in Detroit, Michigan. Very good friends of our famil...

My mother's younger brother, Nicholas (Nick), [parachoukli Belos, Karavas], came to Australia with his sister Helen in the early 1950's. They originally worked in their Uncle Nick's cake shop in Blacktown. See separate e...

Evangelos Megaloconomos, Auguste (Gussie) and Ruby. Gussie was German, they met in Australia, and the family went back to Kythera together.

Ruby and Mickey Megaloconomos on their way back to Australia in about 1924. Their mother Gussie was pregnant with the third child, Peter at the time. The family story is that Mickey had to be dressed up as a little girl...

A young Ruby Megaloconomos before a fancy dress party in Stanthorpe QLD. Ruby's father Angelo Megaloconomos had a cafe there. They all went back to Kythera soon after this time about 1920. Ruby and Micky, her mother Guss...

Two young boys, Nicholas and Peter Tsikleas, wearing traditional Greek national dress in Brisbane in the 1930s.

Members of families from Greece who migrated to South Australia: standing l-r: Agnes Nicolaides; G.G. Nicolaides; Irene Economos; sitting: Margarita Nicholaides; Maroussa Vidale. DATE 1921.

Xenophon was born in Karvounathes, Kythera, in 1914. He came out to Australia in 1928 as part of a group of nine young Kytherian boys sent to work in Greek cafes. [You can see a photograph of Xenophon with five of the ot...

From October, 2002. Vema. 3/31. Vaucluse resident and Bondi Junction based solicitor, John Comino, was appointed Mayor of Woollhara Council for a second term. John is the first Councillor and Mayor of Greek origin. Accor...

Young Greeks picnicing on the beach at Redcliffe, ca. 1920. From the Redcliffe City Library, Pictorial History Archive: http://www.photosau.com/RedcliffeLibrary/

Mr and Mrs Poulos, owner/managers of Caph's cafe in Manuka, Canberra. Published in the Canberra Chronicle, 23 September 1987, p. 2. From, ACT Heritage Library Imagesact http://www.basis.act.gov.au/DUSLibrary/ImagesACT.ns...

'Yes, I was a pioneer....1913...The old people [my parents], they sent me to Australia...they was very, very poor...It was America or Australia. They pick Australia...it was a new country and you had more chance....The t...

Born in Karavas, Kythera, in 1916, Angelo arrived in Sydney in August, 1939. In 1941 he was called up for army service. However, as he possessed experience in carpentry, he was placed with the Allied Works Council as a t...

Harry's father, Nilolaos, arrived from Kythera in 1921. Born in Toowoomba, Queensland, in 1946, Harry first journeyed to the island of his father's birth in 1986. He initially spent four months, and 'felt a sense of belo...

Leonard, accompanied by Athens Olympic mascot and a Greek-Australian flag?? From, Macquarie University News, September, 2004. Image and text, re-published here with kind permission from the Media Manager: Kathy Vozella....

Xenophon Castrisos (Castles), an aerial photographer with the Royal Australian Air Force, reads the Hellenic Herald, a Greek-Australian newspaper, during World War II. Photograph held in John Oxley Library, the State Lib...