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Subiaco Museum > Records

PHOTOGRAPH: COUNCILLOR T.W. HETHERINGTON AND FAMILY

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c. 1900

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Family Portraits

Overview

Sepia toned photograph, mounted on cream coloured card. Photograph shows a family, neatly dressed and posed against a background of bushland. The family is arranged on and in front of a fallen log, with the oldest boy (far left) on a bicycle. The family in order is (left to right) a boy, a girl, the father (T.W. Hetherington), a younger boy, two younger girls and the mother, with a baby on her lap. The girls and youngest boy are in dresses with white pinafores. The oldest boy and his father are in suits, whilst the mother wears a dark coloured dress with a white collar.

Historical information

(From photo description slip accompanying photo) Councillor T.W. Hetherington of Subiaco's first Municipal Council and his family believed to have been photographed in Subiaco c1900. Note the immaculate appearance of the family despite the wilderness setting. Buildings just visible in the left-hand background give an indication that the wilderness was not long to remain.

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-43-2003.107

Item type

Material

Photographic Paper

Inscriptions and markings

H.C.K. Drinkwater, Subiaco

Keywords

Subiaco Municipal Council

HETHERINGTON, Thomas William

Year

c. 1900

Statement of significance

social, historical - photo shows local councillor and family, taken by local photographer

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