BUILDING STANDARD GAUGE RAILWAY LINE - THURSDAY ISLANDER WORKERS, TOODYAY 1964

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1964

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Overview

Black & white photo of 5 men (Thursday Islanders), Standard Gauge Railway construction workers at Toodyay, with 2 local children (Gayle Thurman and Rhonda Syred).
Man on left seated on a shovel handle, is wearing glasses.
Man bending towards children wearing cap & singlet and shorts.
Man at rear has white t-shirt.
Man behind children has white hat, white shirt & watch on left arm.
Man far right wearing trousers and boots, no shirt.
Older child (Gayle) is nursing smaller child (Rhonda), both girls wearing dresses.
Small girl is wearing shoes and socks and holding teddy bear.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-37-2001.1753

Item type

Photographs

Themes

Social History

Material

Photographic Paper

Width

90 mm

Height or length

125 mm

Inscriptions and markings

On back: "Gayle nursing Rhonda Syred, with Thursday Islanders, who were building the new broad gauge railway. Mrs Thurman".

Contextual Information

The Torres Strait Islands are part of the Australian state of Queensland. Situated between mainland Australia and Papua New Guinea, there are more than 100 islands in the group with Thursday Island being the largest.
Torres Strait Islanders were key workers in the construction of the standard gauge railway line between East Perth and Kalgoorlie in the 1960s.

Year

1964

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Shire of Toodyay

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