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Albany Historical Society Inc > Records

WESTERN IMAGES - WESTERN AUSTRALIA IN PICTURES FROM THE COLONIAL ERA TO THE PRESENT

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1996

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Orange to cream card cover with images of scenes and people from the colonial era. Text by Tom Austen. 200 pages, illustrated, black and white photographs.
Page 14-15: illustrations of Middleton Bay, Oyster Harbour and Lake Seppings in background, during a hunting party from the conception of Dumont Durville (French explorer). There is also a sketch of settlement and idyllic surrounds in 1828 of Frederickstown, later to become the town of Albany around the time of Major Edmund Lockyer.
Page 58: Albany in 1897
Page 76: people of Albany welcoming United States warships in port 1908.

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cwa-org-51-B2014.8

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AUSTEN, Tom (text by)

Keywords

History - Western Australia

Images Of Western Australia Past

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Statement of significance

Pictorial collection from colonial era to the present

Albany Historical Society Inc

Albany Historical Society Inc

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