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PHOTOGRAPH: PERTH MODERN SCHOOL

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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Details

Registration number
cwa-org-43-2013.181
Item type
Width
150 mm
Height or length
100 mm
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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Social or spiritual significance
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