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A collection of photographs from the Gilchrist collection depicting protesters from the Union of Australian Women marching against the development of a US military base in WA in 1962.
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This week Damien Hassan, Senior Archivist at the State Records Office of WA, delves into the State archives collection to talk about the case.
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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.
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Today, Dr Kate is talking about some promotional wedding magazines published by three prominent Perth photographic studios in the 1930s and ‘40s.
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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.
Photographs and films
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Dr Kate talks about the Stevenson, Kinder & Scott Corporate Photography collection - over 25,000 corporate and advertising images, ranging from 1965–2008.
Augusta 1921
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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.
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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.
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Dr Kate talks about a very early letter from the Pilbara, written just as this area was opening up to the pastoral industry.
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Dr Kate discusses the recently digitised watercolour paintings and ink sketches produced by Rica Erickson for her 1958 book Triggerplants.
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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.
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Dr. Kate discusses Raymond Stanley Stewart’s diary written on toilet paper while he was a prisoner of war in WWII.