PHOTOGRAPH: FLORENCE, MABEL AND NORMA BALDING, 1918

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1918

Overview

In this sepia photograph Florence Blading is sitting with Norma and Mabel standing to her right. Norma is wearing a nurse's costume and looking at a box in her hands. Mabel is wearing a short dress, glasses, long socks and boots, with a large bow in her hair.
The group is seated in a garden, in front of a wooden picket fence.
On the reverse is a handwritten inscription which reads 'From Voluntary Worker No.194 Snapshots from Home League'.

Historical information

Taken in 1918, the photo reveals some of the experience of women and children left at home during the First World War.
The photograph may have been taken in the Balding family garden at 30 Herbert Road, Subiaco.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-43-1985.9

Item type

Photographs

Material

Photographic Paper

Chemicals

Width

65 mm

Height or length

90 mm

Keywords

Balding Family

BALDING, Florence

MCCULLOUGH, Mabel

ELLIS (nee Balding), Norma

Herbert Road [30], Subiaco

War

World War One

Nursing

Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD)

Year

Statement of significance

This photograph is significant not only as a potrait of three Subiaco residents, but also for recording aspects of life at home, most notably for women and children, during the First World War.
Historic: Social: Representativeness: Provenance: Condition:

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Social or spiritual significance

Comparative significance criteria

Object’s condition or completeness

Rare or representative

Well provenanced

Geotag

-31.956138180797, 115.81077145766

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