PHOTOGRAPH: INFANT, SPENCER AND MURRAY FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS
1900 - 1950Black and white image enscribed on back 'Merle and our pup Snowball'. Young girl sitting on wooden crate with young puppy. Background detail includes clothes prop, out buildings and houses.
Spencer family lived in York Street (behind 'Stranraer', a nursing home) diagonally opposite Subiaco Oval gates. Parents Arthur Murray and Frances Monica (Mona) nee Spencer Murray. Frances (Mona) born 1913, married c 1933 at St Joseph's Subiaco. Cecil bought a piano in mid 1930s before they had children. Piano was made in Chicago USA. Agent G F Kearns, Hay Street Perth. Family and friends enterained with player rolls. Piano had pull-out shelf for drinks, pull out treadles operated by air hoses. Family of 7-8 children, extended family lived only streets from each other. Most of their children remained in Subiaco after growing up. Grandpa Spencer, grandfather of donor David Murray, worked for Municipality of Subiaco.
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Representative. Series of photographs of Spencer family 1900-1950s
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