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Subiaco Museum > Records

PHOTOGRAPH: SEVEN GIRLS, THELMA GREEN BEQUEST

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Park's Photos Perth

c. 1930

Overview

Image: A photograph of seven young girls sitting down on the floor, posing with one leg straight infront, and the other leg crossed over the top of it, and hands holding their knee. They are all wearing the same 'Hawaiian' costume, with straw-like skirts, a floral necklace, and flowers in their hair. The photo has been colored slightly, with pink and green colouring on the flowers. There are labels written in black pen below the five girls on the left. From the left: 'THELMA', 'BETTY', 'JOYCE', 'BILLIE', JOYCE'.

Reverse: Handwritten in black pen is '1 THELMA CONGDON', '2 BETTY MILLAR', '5 JOYCE FRASER' and '4 BILLIE CONGDON'. A faint purple stamp is in the bottom right, 'FOR PHOTOGRAPHS, SIVYEN, W.A.'

Historical information

Miscellaneous photograph collection collated by Thelma Green, nee Congdon.

Photograph from Album 9.

Photographs sorted according to limited information written on back of photographs. Photographs include: Thelma Green, nee Congdon; Bert and Pearl Congdon; Trenberth family members; Congdon family members.

Photographs accessioned individually May 2023.

Thelma Green, nee Congdon, only child of Bert and Pearl, born 17 March 1922, died 23 October 2001.

Taken at her house at 75 Gloster Street, Subiaco.

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-43-2005.123.21

Item type

Material

Width

58 mm

Height or length

88 mm

Inscriptions and markings

Park's Photos Perth

Keywords

Costume/fashion

Congdon/Green Collection

CONGDON, Thelma (later GREEN)

Gloster Street [75], Subiaco

CONGDON, Billie

Year

Statement of significance

Social significance: photographic record of family events and dress of the eras

Last modified

Wednesday, 19 November, 2025

Completeness

94

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