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PHOTOGRAPH: WOMEN IN HERITAGE COSTUME, FROM ALBUM DERBY ROAD CHURCH SESQUI CENTENARY 1829-1979

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WA Newspaper

1979

Overview

Black and white photograph from album with photographs of WA Sesqui-Centenary Celebrations, 1979.
Ladies dressed for celebrations, one as waitress, another as a nurse. All are wearing 'period' caps/bonnets.
Written in blue ink on reverse: 'L to R Elsie Thomas Alice Turner Vera Leete Daisy Taylor.'
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Historical information

Way '79 Activity. In order to identify the local Church with the celebrations for the 150th Anniversary of WA (Way '79) the Ladies of the Guild and the Social Club combined to present a morning tea and exhibition in the Church Hall and grounds on Wednesday 4th April. The exhibition provided items of family photos, needlework, glassware and household effects, many dating from turn of the century or earlier. Women dressed in fashions of yesteryear.
Photographs removed from original non archival album April 2005.

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-43-1999.226.12

Item type

Material

Photographic Paper

Width

178 mm

Height or length

127 mm

Inscriptions and markings

WA Newspaper.

Keywords

Sesqui-Centenary

Subiaco Methodist Church, Derby Road

Methodist Church, Derby Road

West Australian - Newspaper

Year

Statement of significance

Historical - Methodist Church Derby Road Sesqui-Centenary Celebration Church buildings

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