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DANDELION-ALE

X Ray Appeal Raffle Ticket 1932

Peter Maley and a friend

Jetty.

Old Cottage

Petrol iron

Rotunda.

Jack Surina

Dredge

P100-08. Midland Junction Railway Station viewed from the railway line to the west and looking east to the Perth hills. The Helena Vale Hotel can be seen in the background on the left.

Clinch's Mill c1940

AIF Enlistment Poster

School Production 1988

Cranbrook Primary School 1951

Doll, porcelain & wood

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Pearl dredge

Magazine

car driving down canning highway

Ship on fire.

Victorian house.

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Coronation Coach

Ellis Silas Watercolour Painting

ardross estate map

Document with photographs of young man from front and side

Tenterden School circa 1906

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Display of stable belts

Model Larynx Teaching Aid

Neumanns Store.

Water colour Old Gaol Albany.

fred pascoe telegraphist

Chinese Gardens, 1929

Donnelly Mill Twin Saw with Roy Britten and Les Robinson

Kriesler Radio

Len Cresey's Demons Basketball jacket from Donnelly River

Jetty.

Admidst the Tuarts

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Newcastle in winter 1907

Article

The Avon River at Toodyay

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Article

Toodyay - Yesterday and Today

Geotagged Records

Map of geotagged records on Collections WA

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World War 1 Australian Army Nurse in uniform

"Treasured" - World War 1 Photo Portraits - Identified

Australian Army Museum of Western Australia

The Army Museum has an extensive collection of formal photographic portraits of servicemen and women mainly from World War 1 dating from 1914 to 1919. Many were taken in local photographic studios prior to departure overseas. Some images were captured in studios at training camps (like Blackboy Hill), in theatre (London, Cairo, Paris) or near the front as those recently rediscovered in the Thuillier Collection.

Many portraits remain in their original frames, being treasured… Read more »

Windmill Hill Cutting, Toodyay 1960s

Shire of Toodyay

Items, documents & photographs associated with Toodyay railway history.

(Photo caption: Windmill Hill Cutting, Toodyay, 1960s)

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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HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE, CLAREMONT Claremont Museum 1905 https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!4v1646893612069!6m8!1m7!1spwKSNzbhuGRNdtStdbPe4Q!2m2!1d-31.96139635361323!2d115.7829181439101!3f255.3389265329771!4f5.069237960045115!5f1.9587109090973311

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