TOODYAY ROAD BOARD MEMBERS

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Bardwell Clarke Studios

1929

Subcollections

Overview

Black and white studio portrait of Toodyay Road Board members taken in 1929.
Four men are standing, five men in front seated; all wearing formal attire. Four men are wearing fob chains and all are in three piece suits; two have bow ties, three have wing collars.
There is a painted backdrop in the background to the right.
Back Row L - R Mr Bert Martin, Mr Ludeman, Mr Joseph Wroth, Mr Harry Lee,
Front Row L - R Mr Ernest Twine, Mr Hasson, Mr IG Boyle, Mr John Phillips, Mr Bill Hodgkinson

Historical information

The men are listed with their date of Road Board membership from left to right as follows...

Back row: Otto Herbert Martin (April 1929 - 1946)
Edward Ludeman (1926 - 1946)
Joseph Ablett Wroth (Secretary 1879 - 1880, 1889 - 1933)
Henry Thomas Lee (1924 - July 1930)

Front row: Ernest Edward Twine (1921 - 1940)
Edmund Glover Hasson (1906-1910, 1912 - 1936)
Ignatius George Boyle (Chairman March 1928 - April 1930)
John Cunliffe Phillips (1910 - 1943)
William Abraham Hodgkinson (1914 - 1943)

Not present at this portrait sitting: Lionel John Lukin: (1915 - April 1930)

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-37-1999.9

Themes

Social History

Material

Photo Paper

Width

21.5000 cm

Height or length

16.5000 cm

Contextual Information

Nov. 1929 Board Meeting: (Toodyay Herald 15 Nov 1929 p.5)
Group Photograph. The Chairman said that he had discussed the above matter with Mr. Bardwell Clarke, who had expressed his willingness to provide a framed group photograph of the full Board for £6/6/. It was decided that the entire Board travel to Perth on Tuesday, November 18, to visit the Photographer.
Jan. 1930 Road Board Meeting (TH, 24 Jan. 1930, p.4):
Inwards Corro: 16 From Bardwell Clarke Studios, re proofs of photographs of Board Members.The Chairman thought that it would be fitting for a photograph to be supplied to each member of the Board. Moved Martin,- seconded Hasson, and carried, that 12 of each be ordered (3 kinds).”

Place made

Western Australia
Australia

Year

1929

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Shire of Toodyay

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