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A photographic journey through immigration and settlement
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BA3672/1: School group in Yugoslavia 1927
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BA3672/2: Family group in Yugoslavia posing for photo to be sent to WA 1925
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BA3672/3: One of the friends is leaving for Australia 1923
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BA3672/4: Paval Illich (right) in Austro-Hungarian Navy 1917
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BA3672/5: Young men in the army in Yugoslavia 1922
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BA3672/6: Mode of carrying for women on Adriatic islands early C20th
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BA3672/7: Typical Dalmation Coast landscaped for vine growing
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BA3672/8: Goldfields landscape which greeted new migrants
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BA3672/9: Examining rock on a claim at Cue 1930
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BA3672/10: Miner's camp on the diggings at Cue 1930
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BA3672/11: Wedding group Boulder 1914
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BA3672/12: Wedding group Kalgoorlie 1913
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BA3672/13: Bridal couple Boulder 1914
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BA3672/14: Yugoslav orchestra in Boulder, Hrvatski Tamburasi 1910
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BA3672/15 :Moving day on the Woodline 1916
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BA3672/16: Loading the camp onto the train 1923
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BA3672/17: Horse and dray hauling cut wood to railway line at Kurrawang 1923
Item Detail
Summary
This exhibition of photographs was a Swan Valley community contribution to the Migrant History Programme initiated by the Multicultural and Ethnic Affairs Commission of WA and was curated by Ena Czeladka (now Willemsen, nee Illich). The library also has interviews conducted for the project and the book which resulted entitled To Make a better life: Yugoslavs in the Swan Valley, There is also a booklet of the same name to accompany the exhibition.
Year
1916-1949.
Subjects
Call Number
BA3672
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