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  • Collection: Wagga Wagga and District Historical Society

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Portrait of Athol Watts posed on a toy horse, aged two years old.
The reverse side is inscribed with the following message: "To Dear little Belle with best wishes for Xmas. From Athol Watts, aged 2 years and 4 months. Xmas 1922".

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A hand-coloured photographic postcard addressed to Nurse Melvin. The photograph shows Baylis Street around 1900. The photographer is facing south, standing at the corner of Baylis and Morrow Streets.

This postcard is part of a series by the Crown…

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Studio portrait of Belle (surname unknown), with inscription: " To dear Mum and Dad, your loving daughter Belle".

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Studio portrait of Belle and baby.

Pages from RW5_67.pdf
Pages from Isabella Rose Edney's scrapbook, who was born in 1886 to James and Helen Edney of Best Street, Wagga Wagga.

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Studio portrait of Ben and Ella Birch

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Studio portrait of Ben Birch

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Studio portrait of Ben Birch and Ray Fletcher.

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A postcard portrait of Bertha Hawkins of Cooma, NSW. Bertha graduated with a Diploma as an Associate of the London College of Music in 1907 at the age of 13.
On the reverse is the inscription: "To May with Birthday Greetings, From Bertha".…

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Pages from Geoff Patterson's notebook containing newspaper clippings and notes relating local bicycle racing.
The examples here include an article from the Wagga Wagga Advertiser, 20 November 1902, on the Wagga Cycling Carnival and a record of two…

Pages from RW5_182.pdf
Correspondence from John H Forsyth, Assistant Engineer, Research Office of The Secretary for Railways, regarding Mrs Seecombe's enquiries on the seats at Bomen Railway Station.

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The shopfront of Bruce Wallace, wholesale fruiterer, in Baylis Street (near Huthwaites). Bruce Wallace appears to have set up in Wagga Wagga in 1917 and was in business for a number of decades, selling fruit and confectionery.

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Image of a man posing next to a boat and campsite, beside the Murrumbidgee River.

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Two views of the parade and crowds at the "Centenary of Wagga Wagga" Parade, held in 1970. One image shows the Riverina Ballroom Dancing Studio's float at the intersection of Baylis and Morrow Streets; the other is of the RAAF marching at the…

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Charcoal drawing signed and dated by Norman Edney, depicting a man in a hat, smoking a pipe.

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Back Row Standing: David William Edney b.11 Oct 1893 d. 24 Dec 1967;
Middle Row Sitting L to R: Elizabeth Ada Edney b. 21 June 1895 d. 20 June 1979, (Baby) Mary Ann (Molly) Edney b.13 Aug 1901 d. 28 May 1931, Eliza Jane Edney b. 8 Sept 1892 d. 27…

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Photograph of the Church of England Recreation Hut and Chapel at Kapooka during World War Two.

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Studio portrait of Clara Davis.

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Studio photograph of Clara Edney (daughter of James Welsh Edney), Albert Winter and Helen Winter (nee Edney).
Inscription on reverse: "Clara, do you know these? Taken 13/11/09".
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