PHOTOGRAPH: FLORENCE, MABEL AND NORMA BALDING, 1918
1918In 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'.
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.
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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.
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Nearest geotagged records:
- World War 1, Australia, Western Australia, 335 ROACH, 10 Light Horse (0.2km away)
- PHOTOGRAPH: VIEW OF LAKE JUALBUP (SHENTON PARK LAKE, DYSON'S SWAMP), 1911 (0.29km away)
- PHOTOGRAPH: VIEW OF LAKE JUALBUP (SHENTON PARK LAKE, DYSON'S SWAMP), 1911 (0.3km away)
- PHOTOGRAPH: VIEW OF LAKE JUALBUP (SHENTON PARK LAKE, DYSON'S SWAMP), 1911 (0.3km away)
- AWAS on Rottnest - WF90934 WOOLLANDS (married HOLDSWORTH) (0.41km away)
- PHOTOGRAPH: 'SHENTON PARK LAKE' 1979 (0.42km away)
- PHOTOGRAPH: 'SHENTON PARK LAKE' 1979 (0.42km away)
- POSTCARD: 'GREETINGS FROM SUBIACO, WEST SUBIACO, W.A. FROM SHENTON PARK HOTEL' (0.43km away)
- AWAS on Rottnest - WF94880 HARDY (0.46km away)
- PHOTOGRAPH: ' PEGGIES BOUTIQUE, SUBIACO AWARDS' 1988 (0.49km away)
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