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Shire of Toodyay > Records

SHIFTING FURNITURE DURING TOODYAY FLOODS 1935

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1935

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Natural Disasters

Overview

Black and white photo of a loaded truck diving along a flooded dirt road.
Prominent two storey building in background at left.
In the foreground a lady in a dark coat is watching the truck. She has her back to the camera. Other figures are visible further away on the left. There is lady wearing light coloured clothes holding a light coloured dog on a lead. Half hidden behind the lady in the foreground appears to be a man in dark clothes.

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Registration number

cwa-org-37-2007.13

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Material

Photographic Paper

Width

86 mm

Height or length

142 mm

Inscriptions and markings

Written in ink on the back, "Harvey Webb (MHR) now / Shifiting furniture from ground floor of 2 storey house, Toodyay 1935 floods."

Contextual Information

It is assumed the two storey building is the old boarding house located on Harper Road, originally built as a store and warehouse by the Monger family in the 1860s and located in what is now Duidgee Park, Toodyay.
This building was demolished in 1968 to make way for the Newcastle Bridge.

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