Please be advised: this website contains the names, images and voices of people who are now deceased.

Collections WA has a responsibility to preserve and make accessible the history and culture of Western Australia in all its various forms. The intention of Collections WA is to support research, and to reveal actions of the past that have impacted upon communities, families, and individuals.

In doing so, Collections WA acknowledges the need to respond sensitively and appropriately in cases when accessing this material may be confronting to Aboriginal visitors and clients.

Please also note: Some historical materials within this portal may include language or opinions that today are considered inappropriate or even offensive. Collections WA does not endorse this language and apologises for any distress caused.

Continue

Continue showing cultural advice

Stop showing cultural advice

Collections WA brings together collections from libraries, galleries, museums, archives, historical societies, cultural organisations, community groups and other collecting organisations across Western Australia.

Subiaco Museum > Records

PHOTOGRAPH: PEARL, DOROTHY, THELMA, VALDA, PAT, THELMA GREEN BEQUEST

« Prev Item Next Item »

Park's Photos Perth

c. 1910

Overview

Image: A photograph of Pearl Congdon (left), Dorothy Trenberth (centre left), Thelma Congdon (centre), Valda (centre right) and Pat (right), sitting on a wooden bench in amongst vegetation and grass. They are all eating what appears to be icecream. The girls all wear the same checkered dress, with a hat, white socks, and dark enclosed shoes. Pearl wears a light coloured dress, and a hat.

Reverse: Written in black pen, 'PEARL CONGDON', 'DOROTHY', 'THELMA', 'VALDA', 'PAT', 'THE ZOO MELBOURNE'.

Historical information

Miscellaneous photograph collection collated by Thelma Green, nee Congdon.

Photograph from Album 9.

Photographs sorted according to limited information written on back of photographs. Photographs include: Thelma Green, nee Congdon; Bert and Pearl Congdon; Trenberth family members; Congdon family members.

Photographs accessioned individually May 2023.

Thelma Green, nee Congdon, only child of Bert and Pearl, born 17 March 1922, died 23 October 2001.

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-43-2005.123.96

Item type

Material

Width

58 mm

Height or length

88 mm

Inscriptions and markings

Park's Photos Perth

Keywords

Gloster Street [75], Subiaco

Congdon/Green Collection

CONGDON, Thelma (later GREEN)

Year

Statement of significance

Social significance: photographic record of family events and dress of the eras

Last modified

Wednesday, 19 November, 2025

Completeness

94

Subiaco Museum

Subiaco Museum

Other items by Park's Photos Perth

Other items from Subiaco Museum

Media reuse | View full size | Item feedback

Scan this QR code to open this page on your phone ->

Full size unavailable (you're already seeing this image in its highest resolution available on Collections WA)

Loading...