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Souvenir ‘Snapshots of Albany’ Photographic Booklet

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c. 1925

Overview

A small light grey card booklet with light brown paper inside displaying twelve (12) sepia-toned photographs of key Albany buildings and scenes. The embossed cover bears the title ‘Snapshots of Albany’. Each small photograph inside is mounted on the page and surrounded by a brown border. The photographs include a view of the town from Mount Melville looking towards King George Sound, the Town Jetty taken from Stirling Terrace and looking towards Princess Royal Harbour, the Railway Station, Middleton Beach, Nanarup Beach with a family of three (3) in the foreground, Dog Rock, the Natural Bridge with three (3) people sitting on the bridge, the Town Hall, Albany High School, Killarney (looking over the Kalgan River), the King River, with the last photograph being of Albany taken from Mount Clarence. There are two (2) large staples on the spine of the booklet.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-12-2023.16.1

Item type

Booklets

Themes

Photography

Material

Card

Ink

Paper

Photographic Paper

Width

128 mm

Height or length

102 mm

Depth

4 mm

Weight

40 g

Inscriptions and markings

On front “Snapshots / of / Albany” with “ALBANY, WESTERN AUSTRALIA / TOWN JETTY, ALBANY / RAILWAY STATION, ALBANY / MIDDLETON BEACH, ALBANY / NANARUP, ALBANY / DOG ROCK, ALBANY / NATURAL BRIDGE, ALBANY / TOWN HALL, ALBANY / HIGH SCHOOL, ALBANY / KILLARNEY, KALGAN RIVER, ALBANY / KING RIVER, ALBNAY / ALBANY, WESTERN AUSTRALIA” describing photographs within.

Contextual information

The item was obtained by the donor’s parents on a visit to Albany.

Keywords

Albany

Tourism

Place made

Albany, Western Australia, Australia

Year

c. 1925

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Social or spiritual significance