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Subiaco Museum > Records

PHOTOGRAPH: GROUP OF LADIES, FROM THE ALBUM OF DERBY ROAD CHURCH SESQUICENTENARY 1829-1979

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1979

Overview

Colour photograph from album with photographs of WA Sesqui-Centenary Celebrations, 1979.
Image shows women dressed for Sesqui Centenary with decorated wheelbarrow.
Written in blue ink on reverse: Back Row/Vera Harrison, Vera Leete/Muriel Willis, Elsie Wager/Dulcie McKay, Jane Beck/Violet Button /Front Gladys Dumps, Ivy Bannear/Auntie Flose Chandler),

Historical information

Way 1979 Activity. In order to identify the local Church with the celebrations for the 150th Anniversary of WA (Way 1979) 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 . 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. Renumbered in 2024 to give each photograph a unique number.

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-43-1999.226.4

Item type

Material

Photographic Paper

Width

89 mm

Height or length

86 mm

Keywords

Sesqui-Centenary

Methodist Church, Derby Road

Subiaco Methodist Church, Derby Road

Year

Statement of significance

Historical significance, social, Sesqui Centenary

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