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Letter of support to John Kirwan from Victorian federalist, and later Prime Minister of Australia, Alfred Deakin
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Invitation to the Reverend Charles Riley, Bishop of Perth, to attend the celebrations surrounding the opening of the first Federal Parliament
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Voting was limited to the white adult male population. Goldfields residents felt they were discriminated against because of the distribution. Battye Library
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Article describing the celebration of Commonwealth day in Kalgoorlie.
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Letter to the editor regarding Federation
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Joseph ('Joe') Chamberlain (1836-1914), Industrialist and politician; MP for Birmingham. Sitter in 105 portraits.
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Speech by the Right Honourable Sir John Forrest, on the federation of Australia, on the terms proposed in the Commonwealth Bill passed by the Federal Convention, 1898, at St. George's Hall, Perth, on Friday, 27th May, 1898
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Written on back of mount: Left to right: Back: Lethlean, Smallpage, Williams, Roberts, Edwards, Challenger; Centre: Finch, Birch, Farmen, Roberts, Mills, Johnson; Front: Grant, Webber, Robinson, Sayers. Cpl Williams was 1st man killed at Gallipoli.
Names identified from Boer War nominal roll: John Lethlean, Eugene Best Smalpage, Arthur Williams, Matthew Henry Roberts, Leonard Douglas Edwards, William Frederick Challinger, Kenneth John Stuart Finch, Walter Richard Birch, Herbert Farmer, Stephen Richard Harrick Roberts, William Checkley Mills, George Johnson, John Edward Grant, John Webber (Trumpeter), John Moore Robinson OR Charles Robinson, George Butters Sayer.
This image has erroneously identified as 11th Battalion AIF in the past.
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Thomas Hair (left) with James Hair (right) on the parade float, HMS Commonwealth, 1901. The crew is mainly Japanese laundry workers using drink bottles as telescopes.
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Stereograph of the crowd gathered on the Perth Esplanade to celebrate the Federation of Australia on Commonwealth Day, 1 January 1901.
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Cover title: Swan Souvenir of the Royal visit to Australia.
Subtitle: Highly-finished photos of Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York ; the first Governor-General, Earl of Hopetown ; the Countess of Hopetown ; Sir Arthur Lawley, State Governor of West Australia, and Lady Lawley ; First Federal Ministry ; views of the various Arches ; Processions and most interesting events.
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Petition to Her Majesty the Queen from persons residing in the town of Albany and the district near it, together with a report on the statements made in the petition by the Right Honourable Sir John Forrest. Includes framed map of Western Australia (1900), showing the proposed area of secession. ACC 8275A.
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Cartoon from The Bulletin
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Includes programmes of 3 musical concerts and menu of refreshments in Parliament House.
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1 photoprint : b&w.
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Community reaction to the Spanish flu epidemic.
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Presented to the Naval & Military Club by Lt. Gen. Sir J. Talbot-Hobbs (Sole Survivor) May 13, 1935. Photograph taken 1901. L. to R. (top) Lt. Col. McWilliams A.M.C., Capt. Kynden R.A.A., Capt. S.A. Darvall DAAc., Major J. Talbot-Hobbs (bottom) Bishop Riley Senior Chaplain CMF., Col. Richards and C.B. Commandant.
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Celebrating the creation of the Commonwealth of Australia. The float was constructed and manned by Japanese of the goldfields and represented a Japanese man-of-war (Ref: Kalgoorlie Miner). They were used again in the 1903 procession marking the opening of the Goldfields Water Supply.
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Head and shoulder portrait.
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Separation for Federation Petition sent to Queen Victoria. Men identified by John Kirwan: - Front row: H.M. Jackman, Dr Henry Ellis, J.W. Kirwan, John Reside and J.M. Fowler. - Back row: Clergyman (identified as Rev. A. Plane by Mollie Lukis), W.R. Burton, H. Gregory.
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Sir John Forrest opens Goldfields Water Supply Scheme, Coolgardie, 1903
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Head and shoulder portrait.
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The alluvialists were petitioning against the restrictions placed on them in working on mining leases ('the 10 foot rule') which, at a time when much of the alluvial gold had been worked in the Eastern Goldfields, had left many miners unemployed.
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Lunch for dignitaries held at the 100 foot (approximately 30 metres) level of the Kalgurli Gold Mine, to celebrate the opening of the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme
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Head and shoulder portrait.
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Head and shoulder portrait.
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Note on back of photograph: Labor women first included. Group portrait.
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https://encore.slwa.wa.gov.au/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1910856
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Letter to the editor regarding t'othersiders
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Thought to be in Broad Arrow. Camels sit on the ground in front of the bakery.
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Group photograph of politicians gathered for Federal Convention. Western Australian delegates include Sir John Forrest, G. Leake, F.H. Piesse, J. Howard Taylor, A. Y. Hassell, W. James, J.G. Lee-Steere, W. T. Loton and R. F. Sholl.
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Prospectors panning for gold in pits they have dug and filled with water.
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Celebrating Xmas. Some of the officers of the Wardens at their camp celebrating the day.
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Decorative archway constructed to celebrate Federation.
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Bags of grain sit in railway wagons in front of sailing ships on the Long Jetty, Fremantle.