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Greenough Museum and Gardens > Records

J.T. Harradine's Meat Account book

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c. 1870

Subcollections

Maley Mill and Store Archives

Overview

booklet with dark orange covers, bound by string, blue-grey paper with 5 pink vertical lines, hand-written text in ink. Inserted inside is a loose hand-written text on a scrap of paper.

Historical information

John Harradine (1814-81) was a farmer convicted of horse stealing and forgery. He arrived in the colony in 1858. He later took up farming on the Chapman River and at Greenough.

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Registration number

cwa-org-72-GMOB1154

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Material

Width

98 mm

Height or length

152 mm

Depth

3 mm

Inscriptions and markings

On Cover
J.T. Harradine
Meat a/c"
on separate piece of paper - "August 5th 1870
I agree to pay Harradine the sum of 3 P 4s for water trough as soon as it can be made of this years crop"

Contextual Information

From this booklet we have evidence that Harradine provided the Maley family with pork from 21/02/1870 to 5/08/1870, and with mutton from 17/09/1871 to 24/08/1872.

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Greenough
Western Australia
Australia

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Primary significance criteria

Scientific or research significance

Comparative significance criteria

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Object’s condition or completeness

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Well provenanced

Greenough Museum and Gardens

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