Setting Up The Blackboy Hill Unemployment Camp

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Summary

The Truth writes at length on the setting up of the camp for unemployed men at the old Blackboy Hill military training camp and the plight of the unemployed during the Great Depression in Western Australia.Caption published under 049006PD/049106PD: The Administrative Staff: Top row (left to right): H.A. Ranford (Officer in charge), Mr F. Pilkington (Controller), Constable Hoey (Officer in charge of camp). Bottom row: (from left to right): G. Thorpe (Storeman), C. Mann (Timekeeper), F. Lynch (Office Clerk). Caption published under the cropped out face of the chef standing at left in 048970PD: The Chef in Chief.

Year

1930.

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Users are advised that a place name in this material reflects the attitude of the era in which the item was created and contains offensive terminology that may be considered inappropriate today. This image has been preserved and made available by the Historical Records Rescue Consortium (HRRC) Project supported by Lotterywest. Title supplied by cataloguer. Captions from published captions. Some negatives badly damaged.

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Call Number

10028B/1636,1672,1767,1772,1812,1950,2017,2008

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