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Curtin University Library > Records

The Crematorium, Karrakatta, 1938.

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Summerhayes Family.

1938

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Summerhayes Architecture Collection

Overview

1 photographic print, 440mm x 410mm.

Historical information

Built in 1938, the crematorium was demolished in about 1990 because 'of the pressing need for modern facilities' and the Norfolk Chapel was built in its place. (Leonie Liveris, Memories Eternal: The First 100 Years of Karrakatta, p. 244)

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Registration number

cwa-org-103-CUL00112/1/16

Item type

Keywords

Karrakatta Cemetery Perth

Year

1938

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Geotag

-31.970180269574, 115.79818558216

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