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CY OConnor and family Wellington New Zealand
(1876 – 1968)
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Listen to Dr Kate explore the legacy of Kathleen O’Connor and her significance as an artist with a distinctive body of work as a painter, through the State Library’s private archive collection.
Mavis Walley with pram
Aboriginal stories
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ABC Radio Perth discussion about Mavis Phillips (nee Walley 1921–1982) one of Australia’s earliest known Indigenous photographers.
WW1 illustration of soldier on cigarette card
Letters, stories, maps and cigarette cards
ANZAC stories
Maps and charts
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WA history
Peter Edwards, Heritage Team Librarian, discusses original ANZAC materials from the State Library archives.
William Ernest Bold City of Perth Town Clerk ca1915
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William Bold was appointed Town Clerk of the City Perth in September 1901, he was the youngest in any Australian capital city.
Edith Cowan
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WA history
Edith Cowan was one of Western Australia’s most important social reformers and a notable champion of women’s rights.
Scotty Maxx performs with This is Spudgun at the Rosemount Hotel 2019
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Adam Trainer spoke with Christine Layton about the Library’s existing music photography collections, the process of adding to it and the exciting images included as part of this display.
Portrait of Alexander Izzy Orloff c1919
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ABC Radio discussion about Abraham “Izzy” Orloff, who captured Perth throughout the interwar years as a professional photographer.
Emily Clifton diaries Extract from Diary 1 February 1908 - 9 July 1908
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Dr Kate discusses the Emily Clifton diaries, a collection of 48 personal diaries covering the period 1906 – 1979.
vintage hand drawn panoramic map of Perth from 1892
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Discussing one of the key elements of the Creating Perth exhibition - an 1892 cyclorama of Perth.
Prime Minister Robert Bob Hawke c1984
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Damien Hassan, Senior Archivist at the State Records Office of WA, talks about Mr Hawke’s student record and why school records are important State archives.
Operation Plowshare marketing brochure
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“He shall judge between the nations, and shall arbitrate for many people; they shall beat their swords into plowshares…” (from the Book of Isiah)
May Lorna OBrien is featured on the front page of the January 1954 edition
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This week Dr Kate discusses the landmark Westralian Aborigine newspaper – the first Aboriginal newspaper in Western Australia, which ran from early December 1953 until July 1957.