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  • Collection: Wagga Wagga and District Historical Society

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Studio portrait of Sarah Robinson.

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Pages from a scrapbook containing theater illustrations, similar to the one identified as belonging to Belle Edney.

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A studio portrait of man in an Australian Imperial Force uniform. On the reverse side is a recent inscription which tentatively identifies the man as Sergeant Harris.

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A photographic postcard of two men, one in an AIF uniform. They are standing in front of what might be a hotel; the window is advertising the presence of a billiard table inside the building.
On the reverse side of the postcard is written: "Sgt T.…

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Group of twenty workers and family members posed outside the Shaw family business (presumably at the back of the building).

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Pages from a memorandum book, possibly kept by a member of the Cox family, containing notes relating to shearers, rations and shearing tallies. One page of the notebook is dated 1882.

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Letter from Mary to her mother Mrs E Simmons of Narrandera Road, Wagga Wagga. The letter mostly relates news about Mary's baby, Edward Charles Frances.
There is also an invoice from David Copland and Co. to Mr WC Simmons regarding children's shoes.

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This photograph was taken in 1899 after one of the very rare snowfalls in Wagga Wagga. The photograph shows one of the gateways within Newtown Park, now known as Collins Park, covered in snow.

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This photograph was taken after one of the very rare snowfalls in Wagga Wagga, possibly in 1899. The location is most likely to be Newtown Park, now known as Collins Park.

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This photograph was taken in 1899 after one of the very rare snowfalls in Wagga Wagga. The photographer is standing on the Wollundry Lagoon Bridge, facing south down Baylis Street.

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View of the swimming pool in the Murrumbidgee River behind St John's Anglican Church.

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Photograph of five rollerskaters dressed for the White Night Carnival at the Wagga Olympia Roller Skating Rink in Kincaid Street on 31 May 1910.

The rollerskaters took part in a costume competition as a team called "Winter".

Pictured in the…

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Photograph of the Edney family home located on Edward Street (opposite the South Wagga Bowling Club), with members of the Edney family standing out the front.

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Photographic postcard showing the Murrumbidgee River and the Hampden Bridge at Wagga Wagga, addressed to Mrs Melvin.

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A hand-coloured postcard photograph of The Riverine Club in Tarcutta Street, addressed to Mrs Melvin.

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Five Sunday School teachers from The Rock Union Church. Mabel E Condon (nee Mortlock) on far right hand side.

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Photograph of the office and some of the staff of the Wagga Wagga Advertiser in Fitzmaurice Street.
The American Photographic Company was in Wagga between 20 December 1871 and at least February 1872 and (according to newspaper reports) took…

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Photographic postcard showing the Wesleyan Church, on the corner of Johnston and Tarcutta Streets, addressed to Mrs Melvin. This church was officially opened in October 1949.

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Studio portrait of Thomas Watts.
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