PHOTOGRAPH (COPY): STREETSCAPE, CORNER OF COGHLAN ROAD AND HAY STREET, M.W. KAVANAGH GROCERY STORE, CIRCA 1908

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c. 1908

Overview

This black and white copy of a photograph shows the corner of Coghlan Road and Hay Street, Subiaco, with houses and the grocery store of M.W. Kavanagh, which has a house at the rear on the east side of the shop. There is a large advertisement painted on the side of the shop in clear detail, as well as on the side of the verandah. There is a vacant block adjacent to the shop with trees and shrubs.
In the image, tramlines are evident running along Hay Street in front of the shop. A number of electric light posts are at the edge of the footpath and there is a street lamp at the forefront to the left of the photograph. Houses and trees are featured in the background looking towards the west.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-43-1985.1

Item type

Photographs

Material

Chemicals

Photographic Paper

Width

290 mm

Height or length

150.5000 mm

Keywords

Shops And Businesses, Subiaco

M. W. Kavanagh Grocery Store

Hay Street [171], Subiaco

KAVANAGH, Michael W

Year

c. 1908

Statement of significance

This photograph is significant as a record of M. W. Kavanagh's Grocery store, and the Hay Street and Coghlan Road streetscape in the early twentieth century.
Historic: Social: Scientific: Condition: Interpretive: Rarity:

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Scientific or research significance

Social or spiritual significance

Comparative significance criteria

Interpretive capacity

Object’s condition or completeness

Rare or representative

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-31.947134675993, 115.83297858201

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