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Subiaco Museum > Records

PHOTOGRAPH: UNVEILING OF SUBIACO WAR MEMORIAL

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1923

Subcollections

Military and Wartime Collection

Overview

The photograph features the unveiling of the Subiaco War Memorial. There is a group of men and women seated directly in front of the memorial, with the plaque unveiled. One man, standing in military uniform, without a hat, addresses the assembled crowd. A troop of soldiers and members of the public are grouped around the barricade surrounding the clock and seated in a wooden view stand on left-hand side of the image. The street behind the memorial shows two motor vehicles and a horse-drawn carried parked. The houses in Hamersley Road are shown. The Society holds the negative

Historical information

This is one of a sequence of photographs on the unveiling of the Subiaco War Memorial (see 1985.70, taken fifteen minutes later)

Details

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Registration number

cwa-org-43-1985.71.1

Item type

Photographs

Material

Chemicals

Photographic Materials

Width

258 mm

Height or length

240 mm

Keywords

Events

Military Associations

Subiaco Historical Society

Year

Statement of significance

Local, military and social history

Geotag

-31.952231, 115.823774
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Last modified

Thursday, 2 November, 2023

Completeness

94

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