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RW 0005 · Collection · 1813-1991

This collection is an accumulation of items donated to the Wagga Wagga and District Historical Society by various families, businesses, community groups and individuals. It includes personal letters, family photographs, rainfall records, postcards, diaries, farm records, business ledgers, scrapbooks, cards, certificates, and other ephemera.

Wagga Wagga and District Historical Society
RW 0005-s51-632 · Item · 1911
Part of Wagga Wagga and District Historical Society

Inscription on reverse side reads "will be sending a letter in a few[?] days time news is [?] scarce. Au revoir."

The people in the photograph have been identified as: [back left to right] John Norman of Brucedale near Wagga Wagga (the best man), Eva Powell (sister of Bertha), Ivy Powell (sister of Bertha), William Powell (brother of Bertha, gave Bertha away during the ceremony as Bertha’s father was deceased); [front left to right] William Harding (Arch Harding’s father), Hester Vincent (formerly Rowe nee Couch, William Harding’s second wife and Arch Harding’s stepmother); Arch Harding, Bertha Powell, Martha Powell (Bertha Powell’s mother).

RW 0005-s51-616 · Item · 1914
Part of Wagga Wagga and District Historical Society

Inscription on reverse side reads, "To Arch and Bertha from Father and Mater 1914" [Archibald Harding and Bertha Powell, married Wagga Wagga, 1911]
The people in the photograph have been identified as: [back left to right] Olive May Harding, Septimus (Sep) Vincent Harding, Eric (Rick) Edward Harding, Amilda Maud Rowe (nee Weekes); [front left to right] Hilton John Rowe, Nathalie Enid Rowe [infant], Hester Vincent Harding (formerly Rowe, nee Couch), William Harding, Allay William Rowe holding a cornet.

"Dhulura" Photograph Album
RW 0005-s41-272 · Item · September 1900
Part of Wagga Wagga and District Historical Society

A photograph album containing photographs of the "Dhulura" homestead, sheds, stables, dams, windmills, waggon teams, "Elisnore" homestead, a picnic at Gobbagombalin, Houlighan's Creek, Hampden Bridge, St John's Church of England, and Malebo Church. The title page of the album is inscribed with the initials "W.E.B." and "JB", who are presumably members of the Booth family who owned Dhulura Farm in the 1890s and early 1900s.