Photographs

Australian bird calls index  Series one Western Australia
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A remarkable collection of recordings documenting Western Australian birds across several decades in remote areas across the state, including parts of the Kimberley, Pilbara and South-West.
The Bridal Magazine vol 7 1938 front cover
SLWA on ABC Radio
Today, Dr Kate is talking about some promotional wedding magazines published by three prominent Perth photographic studios in the 1930s and ‘40s.
 Sadie Corner Mary Bennett and Gladys Vincent 1955
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Discussing a small selection of material from this collection which serves to document Aboriginal peoples self-determination for controlling their own lives in the face of systemic discrimination.
Laurie Potters Health Club Cannington 10 December 1979
SLWA on ABC Radio
Dr Kate talks about the Stevenson, Kinder & Scott Corporate Photography collection - over 25,000 corporate and advertising images, ranging from 1965–2008.
Pages from Our Trip to Augusta
Augusta 1921
SLWA on ABC Radio
Dr Kate the opening up of the South West as a tourist destination and an illustrated, handwritten booklet recounting a trip to Augusta in 1921.
Page from Scrapbook of memorabilia from the Coffee Pot Northbridge c1950s-1970s
SLWA on ABC Radio
On 19 May 2020, Dr Kate discussed a more recent piece of Western Australian social history: a scrapbook containing mementos of a Perth café that was around from the 1950s to the early 1980s.
View across Roebourne toward Harding River to country beyond about 1890
SLWA on ABC Radio
Dr Kate talks about a very early letter from the Pilbara, written just as this area was opening up to the pastoral industry.
Styleworts Rica Erickson
SLWA on ABC Radio
Dr Kate discusses the recently digitised watercolour paintings and ink sketches produced by Rica Erickson for her 1958 book Triggerplants.
Lieutenant General Sir J Talbot Hobbs and one of his diaries
SLWA on ABC Radio
ANZAC day was on the weekend and in light of that, this week Dr Kate discussed Joseph John Talbot Hobbs who kept five diaries throughout World War I.
Toilet roll diary 27 July 1942 - 12 Sep 1942
SLWA on ABC Radio
Dr. Kate discusses Raymond Stanley Stewart’s diary written on toilet paper while he was a prisoner of war in WWII.
Portrait of Mary Ann Friend c 1832 National Library of Australia
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Mary Ann Friend’s journal is an account of the settlement of the Swan River 1829-1831. Of great cultural significance to Western Australia, the journal is one of the many treasures of State Library.