'Wainomi' 3 Victoria Avenue, Claremont
c. 1916Brick and iron house with two brick chimneys and a wooden verandah on stumps. The white wooden verandah posts are linked with wooden arches and have decorative brackets. There are three steps to the central entrance with gable over. Either side of the door are full length sash windows. Three white fence posts, wire fence, with small plants between them, and a gate mark the front boundary and there are trees in the background. Large eucalypt, palm and agave on the right and a house on the left.
Wainomi 3 Victoria Avenue, Claremont was the home of Raymond John and Florence Edith Sharkey. Wainomi means 'Pearl Water' in Hawaiian.
Details
Details
Written on the back in ink is ['Wainomi'] and in pencil [3 Victoria Avenue Claremont].
Australian social history from the collection of photographs and albums donated to the museum by Raymond Sharkey's family.
Raymond John Sharkey an architect, surveyor and amateur photographer was born in 1868 in New South Wales. Raymond was a Claremont resident when he died at an early age.
Copyright and Reference
Copyright and Reference
Acknowledgements to be made to 'Claremont Museum 09.245b'.
Other items by Sharkey Collection
- Government House, Perth
- Lunch In The Bush
- Blackwall Reach, Swan River
- Prince Albert Statue
- ''Appy 'Ome' Building With Horses
- St Paul's College University of Sydney
- Lands Department Building Sydney
- 'Rangitira' On The Swan River
- Swan River And Mount Eliza
- Thomas Sutcliffe Mort Statue
- Keough's Boarding House
- Yachts At Canning Bridge

Source: Claremont Museum 09.245b
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