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Discover unique cultural, creative and community stories from Western Australian collections.

Our stories, our history, told
by our collections.

Keyword Starters

Railways Aboriginal and TSI Art and Design Social History

Rotunda.

Vintage race car.

Ship on fire.

JAPANESE_WARSHIPS

Black dog.

Mining Arms Hotel Nabawa

School Production 1988

Jurnha (Tapping sticks)

PROMETHEUS

ardross estate map

Donnelly Mill Twin Saw with Roy Britten and Les Robinson

photograph of three men in a boat

Coronation Coach

Petrol iron

Red Dog

Ellis Silas Watercolour Painting

Photograph of the 1937 Western Australian Claxton Shield Baseball Team

Magazine

Bachelors Ball, Roebourne 1934

AIF Enlistment Poster

fred pascoe telegraphist

Boyanup School Garden

1985.714 a FRONT

group of women

West Australian baseball players Don Callanan and John Evert - photograph

Admidst the Tuarts

Pearl dredge

Marcus Beilby, The Kiss, 2010, oil paint on canvas

Engraved Japanese Water Bottle - front

Red Cross Invalid Feeding Cup - top

DANDELION-ALE

Peter Maley and a friend

1989.494

Leschenault Lady taking on water from water column in Boyanup

Old Cottage

Document with photographs of young man from front and side

Greenough Roads Board number plate

Len Cresey's Demons Basketball jacket from Donnelly River

Loney Letter - page 1

Dredge

Featured Stories

54025

Cockman House

Article

Rebecca Balling - Wanneroo Community Historian

4181

Bishop Goldsmith's Poem

Article

Bishop Goldsmith's South West Poem

Anonymous

Geotagged Records

Map of geotagged records on Collections WA

Featured Subcollections

Newcastle Government School c1896

Shire of Toodyay

Photographs of Toodyay's buildings (both interior & exterior views) and streetscape / landscape photographs where buildings are featured.
Objects associated with Toodyay's buildings including fixtures & fittings, and building components.
Documents associated with buildings, including poposals for renovations or upgrades.
Also structures used for shelter and remnants of buildings.

(Photo caption: Newcastle Government School c1896, later known as Duke Street… Read more »

Windmill Hill Cutting, Toodyay 1960s

Shire of Toodyay

Items, documents & photographs associated with Toodyay railway history.

Past and Present Street Views

Compare the past and present with these historical photographs from Western Australian collections and their matching modern-day Google Street Views.

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GROUP OUTSIDE THE NEW TOODYAY ROAD BOARD OFFICES IN THE OLD COURTHOUSE Shire of Toodyay 1959 https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!4v1658815233548!6m8!1m7!1s11dSIf646GTaCWz3WsmeiA!2m2!1d-31.55268285072614!2d116.4657331804377!3f132.58918731355968!4f2.4231078990762995!5f1.4838306751817756