Browse Items (214 total)

  • Collection: Wagga Wagga and District Historical Society

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Photographic postcard with an image of Private Percy Price.
Inscription on reverse side: "Private Percy Price enlisted March 12th, 1916. Left Australia August 16th, killed in action in France December 31st."

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Studio portrait of an unknown family, taken in Dundee, Scotland.

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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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Studio portrait of a man identified at some point in time as John Robertson Edney. Edney was one of Wagga Wagga volunteers for the Boer War, returning as a Sergeant Major.
The address of the photographic studio is Pretoria, so presumably the…

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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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Studio portrait of Hughie Leslie Condon

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Studio portrait of Evelyn Arish

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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 William Clarence Wiesner, 37th Infantry Battalion, Australian Imperial Force.
Clarence's family was from 'Meadow Vale', Uranquinty. He was killed in action on 3 May 1917 at Bullecourt, France. He has no headstone but his name is…

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Studio portrait of two unidentified children. With inscription: "With fondest love and...Aunty Nellie".

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Photograph of a man called "Bill". Bill has inscribed the photograph with the following: "To Mr and Mrs JW Edney. With best wishes for a Happy Xmas and a Bright and Prosperous New Year. From Yours Truly. Bill. 17/12/07."

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

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Photographic postcard showing the Wagga Wagga Waterworks, addressed to Miss V Williams.

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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 and baby.

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Studio portrait of Ben Birch and Ray Fletcher.

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Studio portrait of Edith O'Gorman, with inscription: "Escaped Nun".

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Studio portrait of Gladys Amelia Rose Goodman, aged 12 months.

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Photograph of an unidentified young girl standing on a chair with a basket.

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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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