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Collections WA brings together collections from libraries, galleries, museums, archives, historical societies, cultural organisations, community groups and other collecting organisations across Western Australia.

Goldfields Esperance Organisations

Name Sort descending	Region	Category
City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder	Goldfields Esperance	Archive, Art Gallery, Government, Military, Museum	view all items »
Eastern Goldfields Historical Society	Goldfields Esperance	Historical Society, Library, Museum	view all items »
Ravensthorpe Historical Society	Goldfields Esperance	Historical Society	view all items »

Goldfields Esperance Collection Highlights

Cap, Australian Militia Officers, The Swan Regiment, 1937, H.A. Hammond

Autographed Certificate, "The Relief of the Water Buffaloes", H.A. Hammond

Summer Uniform (Tunic, Shirt, Tie), Officer Pattern, H.A. Hammond

Four men and two women stand with four whippets on leads.

Two women sit side-saddle on a camel with its lead held by another woman.

A rectangular brick building labelled 'Fire Station 1904', with two large arched entryways and two arched doorways. A ladder leans against each end of the building. In the foreground the fire brigade pose with equipment. In the background rises a simple triangular observation tower.

A young girl sits on a goat cart, holding the reigns. An holder girl holds the goat's harness and a man stands behind them, leaning on the doorway of a wooden building.

Three men pose with three horses in front of a building.

Six harnessed horses pull a coach seating five men along a dusty bush road. A single man armed with a gun rides behind them.

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