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 SocietyInscription on back of photograph reads 'From Baby, Keith Harding'
'To dear Bertha with love from Arch' written on back
[See item 632 in Series 51 for description]
Three butchers standing at the front entry to AR Harding's butchery.
[Could this be the Grandview Butchery, on the corner of Coleman and Norman Streets, 1939-1945?]
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).
Child identified as Keith Archibald Harding, son of Archibald and Bertha Harding, born 2 March 1920 [information provided by Patrick McCormack, 2025].
Two adult butchers, one younger butcher and one woman holding a younger child in the foreground. Peter Hill and Co, House and Land Agents on the right.
Two adult butchers, one man in a suit and one teenage boy in a suit in the foreground.
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.
Inscription on reverse side reads "To Dear Bertha and Arch with best wishes from Olive and Austin".
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.
Invoices sent to J Smith, relating to HC Wilson (general storekeeper in Ganmain), Nadin, Iverach and Wilson (general storekeepers of Coolamon), and Younghusband Ltd (wool and produce brokers of Albury).
'Auntie Minnie' written in pencil on back