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Subiaco Museum > Records

PHOTOGRAPH: PERTH MODERN SCHOOL

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Overview

Coloured photo Perth Modern School. Red brick two storey building with third floor dormer windows and white detailing. Date above entrance 1908. Original Federation Arts and Crafts style of building designed by State Government architects George Temple Pool and Hillson Beasley.

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cwa-org-43-2013.181

Item type

Material

Photographic Paper

Width

150 mm

Height or length

100 mm

Keywords

Subiaco Road, Subiaco

Education - Perth Modern School

Statement of significance

Historic: photograph of Perth Modern School
Social: Perth Modern School. Innovative approach to education: teaching of science, equal opportunity offered to girls and boys in most areas of study, dispensing with corporal punishment, entrance by scholarship broadened socio-economic range of students.

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