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Title: Amalfi Restaurant, Kalgoorlie Boulder
Type: Image
Date: c. 1950
Source: Margherita Stefani

Title: Art and Industry Excellence Certificate awarded to Frederica Cooke
Type: Image
Date: 1925
Source: Dorothy Erickson

Title: Bardoc Hotel
Type: Image
Date: c. 1898
Source: Robyn McLean and Kevin Imms

Title: The Boulder Block after the 1934 riots
Type: Image
Source: Di Stockdale

Title: Boulder Block after the riots
Type: Image
Source: Di Stockdale

Title: Brooch given to Clara Saunders by miner Paddy Hannan in thanks for her nursing skills
Type: Image
Source: Dorothy Erickson

Title: Brothel Madam Carmel Galvin outside Questa Casa, Hay Street, Kalgoorlie
Type: Image
Date: 2011
Source: Carmel Galvin

Title: Carmel Galvin discussing an influx of Asian brothels after the lifting containment
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Carmel Galvin discussing the monitoring of girls by police, skimpy barmaids, the benefits of brothels and the history of brothels in Kalgoorlie
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Carmel Galvin makes the decision to become a Madam after the death of her husband
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Carmel Galvin: Containment of brothels in kalgoorlie
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Carmel Galvin: Role of the Madam
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Carmel Galvin: Stigma of work as a prostitute
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Carol Douglas discussing being a feminist at work and seeing herself as a feminist
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Carol Douglas: Mining as a great industry for women
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Charlie Furia and Lina Furia, Marriage
Type: Image
Date: 1921
Source: Tess Epis

Title: Charlie Furia, Lina Furia and their daughter Teresa
Type: Image
Date: 1934
Source: Tess Epis

Title: Coo-ee brooch by Maude Wordsworth James
Type: Image
Source: Dorothy Erickson

Title: Coolgardie Hospital operating theatre
Type: Image
Source: Western Australian Museum

Title: Coolgardie Hospital staff
Type: Image
Date: 1897
Control: 009376d
Source: State Library of Western Australia

Title: Coolgardie nurses quarters
Type: Image
Date: 1898
Control: 009380d
Source: State Library of Western Australia

Title: Cornwall Hotel, Kalgoorlie Boulder
Type: Image
Date: c. 1980
Source: Tess Epis

Title: Cornwall Hotel, Kalgoorlie Boulder
Type: Image
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Country Croquet Carnival ladies competition hosted by the Nedland Croquet Club
Type: Image
Control: 221369PD
Source: State Library of Western Australia

Title: Country Women's Association choir from Boulder
Type: Image
Date: 1970
Control: 067042PD
Source: State Library of Western Australia

Title: Crowds at the races, Kalgoorlie
Type: Image
Date: c. 1925 - c. 1930
Control: 283115PD
Source: State Library of Western Australia

Title: Crowds wait in Burt Street for the Boulder Labour Day Parade
Type: Image
Date: 10 June 1914 - 10 June 1914
Control: 000518D
Source: State Library of Western Australia

Title: Di Stockdale at her prospecting camp
Type: Image
Date: 2011
Source: Di Stockdale

Title: Di Stockdale, prospecting
Type: Image
Date: 2011
Source: Di Stockdale

Title: Early difficulties for women in the mining industry
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Eileen Joyce
Type: Image
Date: c. 1940 - c. 1949
Source: Eastern Goldfields Historical Society

Title: Families from Goldfields
Type: Image
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: A family at the Siberia Reward Gold Mine, Broad Arrow
Type: Image
Date: c. 1900
Control: 000652D
Source: State Library of Western Australia

Title: Family photograph
Type: Image
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Female cricket team, Kalgoorlie. Early 1900s
Type: Image
Source: Outback Family History

Title: Frederica Cooke, aged 20
Type: Image
Date: 1917
Source: Dorothy Erickson

Title: A Goldfields family outside their tent with their transportation, a camel
Type: Image
Date: c. 1900
Source: Outback Family History

Title: Goldfields Glee and Orchestral Society
Type: Image
Date: c. 1930
Control: 067043PD
Source: State Library of Western Australia

Title: A Goldfields private hospital
Type: Image
Date: 1899
Control: 233161PD
Source: State Library of Western Australia

Title: Goldfields transport: a woman on a camel ca. Late 1890s.
Type: Image
Source: Outback Family history

Title: Group of tennis players, Kalgoorlie, c. Early 1900s
Type: Image
Source: Outback Family history

Title: Group portrait of the nursing staff of the First Australian General Hospital (1AGH)
Type: Image
Date: 23 September 1918
Source: Australian War Memorial

Title: Helen Dugdale
Type: Image
Date: c. 1917
Source: Western Australia Police Historical Society

Title: Historic Burt Street, Kalgoorlie
Type: Image
Source: Kalgoorlie Boulder Council

Title: Horse drawn parade floats in Kalgoorlie/Boulder
Type: Image
Date: c. 1907 - 1910
Control: 062235PD
Source: State Library of Western Australia

Title: Jean Musk and her cousin Olive Hadden on holidays with friends at Scarborough Beach
Type: Image
Date: c. 1920
Source: Tom Scott

Title: Joan Heenan at work in Perth
Type: Image
Date: c. 1980
Source: Eric Heenan

Title: Joan Heenan, graduation
Type: Image
Source: Eric Heenan

Title: Kalgoorlie branch of the Womens Christian Temperance Union
Type: Image
Source: Western Australian Museum

Title: Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines (KCGM) policy regarding women
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Kalgoorlie Ladies Referendum Committee
Type: Image
Date: 1900
Source: Robyn Horner

Title: Kalgoorlie shop window displaying womens clothing and apparel
Type: Image
Source: Western Australian Museum

Title: Kitty Daniel cycling in Coolgardie
Type: Image
Date: 1897
Control: 007203d
Source: State Library of Western Australia

Title: Ladies' Guild, Eastern Goldfields
Type: Image
Date: 1900 - 1910
Control: 233161PD
Source: State Library of Western Australia

Title: Large basket
Type: Image
Source: Nalda Searles

Title: Lilian Mumme and unknown in Kalgoorlie
Type: Image
Date: c. 1920
Source: Kay Mumme

Title: Lina Furia
Type: Image
Date: 1933
Source: Tess Epis

Title: Lorna Martin discussing coping while her husband was on strike
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Lorna Martin discussing her husband developing diabetes and having to leave his job as a machine miner, resulting in lower wages
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Lorna Martin remembering the end of World War One
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Lorna Martin, buying shoes
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Lorna Martin: Train to Coolgardie for a picnic
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Lorna Martin: Working at a boarding house aged 14
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Lorna Mitchell and her students
Type: Image
Date: c. 1950
Source: Lorna Mitchell

Title: Lorna Mitchell and husband Rex in Kalgoorlie
Type: Image
Date: c. 1950
Source: Lorna Mitchell

Title: Lorna Mitchell discussing working as a teacher with mentally handicapped children in Kalgoorlie
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Lorna Sharp and children
Type: Image
Source: Lorna Sharp

Title: Lorna Sharp and the importance of work
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Lorna Sharp describing how men spent their pay in Kalgoorlie
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Lorna Sharp with her staff
Type: Image
Date: 2011
Source: Lorna Sharp

Title: Lorna Sharp: A third for your wife, a third for the pub and a third to bet
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Lulu Benstead
Type: Image
Source: Outback Family History

Title: Marge Marshall; working as a nurse on night duty
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Margherita Stefani - no days off work
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Margherita Stefani cooking at the Amalfi Wine Saloon
Type: Image
Date: c. 1950
Source: Margherita Stefani

Title: Margherita Stefani describing her working day
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Margherita Stefani describing the first takeaway spaghetti and cutlets in Kalgoorlie
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Margherita Stefani discussing education for her daughter
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Margherita Stefani discussing her working day
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Margherita Stefani discussing work skills
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Mary Pantiji McLean and Nalda Searles - friendship and responsibilities
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Mary Smith outside the Bardoc Hotel
Type: Image
Date: c. 1924
Source: Robyn McLean and Kevin Imms

Title: Maude Wordsworth James
Type: Image
Source: Robyn Horner

Title: Michelle Berryman
Type: Image
Source: Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines

Title: Michelle Berryman remembering the death of her miner father in the Otto Duane Mine in 1996
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Michelle Berryman: Changing mining culture, becoming more aware of the community
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Michelle Berryman: Mothers in mining
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Miners camp
Type: Image
Date: c. 1895
Control: 024381PD
Source: State Library of Western Australia

Title: Miss Boulder
Type: Image
Source: Western Australian Museum

Title: Mrs F. Hele, Mrs C. Shaw, Mrs C.L. Mcilheney (Boulder) and Mrs S.A. Shaw (Coolgardie) at a Red Cross Easter Conference in Perth
Type: Image
Date: c. 1941
Control: 110193PD
Source: State Library of Western Australia

Title: Mrs Marinka, waitress at the Amalfi Restaurant
Type: Image
Date: c. 1950
Source: Margherita Stefani

Title: Nalda Searles
Type: Image
Source: Nalda Searles

Title: Nalda Searles discussing her Daisy Bates teapot
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Nalda Searles talking about her No Grog art project in Kalgoorlie
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Nalda Searles talking about the development of her work
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Nalda Searles: Trading Teapot
Type: Image
Source: Nalda Searles

Title: Nancy Manners
Type: Image
Date: 1928
Source: Ron Manners

Title: Nancy Manners with her children Ron and Frances
Type: Image
Date: 1940
Source: Ron Manners

Title: Nerina Beccarelli
Type: Image
Date: 2011
Source: Nerina Beccarelli

Title: Nerina Beccarelli describing working at the Cornwall Hotel
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Nerina Beccarelli describing working in the market garden
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Nerina Beccarelli discussing her family staying with Australians during the riot
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Nerina Beccarelli discussing her mothers work after the death of her father
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Nerina Beccarelli discussing the death of her stepfather from silicosis
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Nerina Beccarelli: Rivalry between Kalgoorlie and Boulder
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Nerina Beccarelli: Travelling from Kalgoorlie to Boulder
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Nerina Beccarelli: Weekly Italian dances at the Cornwall Hotel
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Nerina Beccarelli: Women during the war and the internment of barmen
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Nevina Zadow working in the Superpit
Type: Image
Date: 2011
Source: Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines

Title: Nevina Zadow: A change of work culture because of an influx of women
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Nevina Zadow: description of truck driving
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Nicole Pike
Type: Image
Date: 2011
Source: Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines

Title: Nicole Pike and voids crew
Type: Image
Date: 2011
Source: Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines

Title: Nicole Pike discussing female apprentices and working in a warehouse
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Nicole Pike explaining her work as part of the Voids Crew
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Nurse Mary Mulder in early outdoor uniform
Type: Image
Date: c. 1909
Source: Outback Family History

Title: Nurse Mumme, pre-1940 in Kalgoorlie
Type: Image
Source: Kay Mumme

Title: Nurses marching through Perth on return from the Great War
Type: Image
Date: c. 1918
Control: 029872PD
Source: State Library of Western Australia

Title: Nursing Sisters of 2/3rd Australian General Hospital (AGH), before their embarkation for duty overseas
Type: Image
Date: 1940 - 1945
Source: Australian War Memorial

Title: Olive Scott
Type: Image
Date: c. 1920
Source: Tom Scott

Title: Olive with her son Tom at the Lakewood Woodline Camp
Type: Image
Date: c. 1940
Source: Tom Scott

Title: Opera company visitng Coolgardie, ca early 1900s
Type: Image
Source: Western Australian Museum

Title: Outside a ransacked restaurant after the riots in Boulder
Type: Image
Date: c. 1934
Source: Eastern Goldfields Historical Society

Title: Palma Alfirevich
Type: Image
Date: 2011
Source: Palma Alfirevich

Title: Palma Alfirevich describing escaping Boulder before their house was burnt down during the riots
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Palmira Alfirovich and family eating
Type: Image
Source: Palma Alfirovich

Title: Palmira Alfirovich and her family after the riots in Kalgoorlie
Type: Image
Source: Palma Alfirovich

Title: Pantiji Mary McLean
Type: Image
Date: c. 1990
Source: Nalda Searles

Title: Pantiji Mary McLean at Nalda Searles home
Type: Image
Date: 2002
Source: Nalda Searles

Title: Pantjiti Mary McLean (sat down) and Nalda Searles
Type: Image
Date: c. 1990
Source: Nalda Searles

Title: Patient Bridget Leighy in bed on the verandah of Kalgoorlie Hospital with nurses
Type: Image
Date: 1903
Control: 006671D
Source: State Library of Western Australia

Title: Phoebe Cooke (right) her fiancee, Chris Sandilands and Frederica Cooke (centre) at a fancy dress ball in Boulder, ca early 1920s
Type: Image
Source: Dorothy Erickson

Title: Police Force, Roe Street
Type: Image
Date: 1931
Source: Western Australia Police Historical Society

Title: Questa Casa Brothel, Hay Street, Kalgoorlie
Type: Image
Source: Carmel Galvin

Title: Red cross women raising money for the war (WWI) in Kalgoorlie
Type: Image
Date: c. 1915
Source: Outback Family History

Title: Rica Erickson
Type: Image
Source: Dorothy Erickson

Title: Rica Erickson in her teens, Boulder
Type: Image
Date: c. 1920
Source: Dorothy Erickson

Title: Savina Patroni at work in the market garden, Sommerville
Type: Image
Date: 1983
Source: Savina Patroni

Title: Savina Patroni, taken on arrival in Australia
Type: Image
Date: c. 1950
Source: Savina Patroni

Title: Savina Patroni's vegetable garden, Sommerville
Type: Image
Date: c. 1980
Source: Savina Patroni

Title: Scott family picnic, Kalgoorlie, ca early 1900s
Type: Image
Source: A.W. Musk

Title: Sturt's Desert Pea
Type: Image
Date: 1947
Source: Dorothy Erickson

Title: Super Pit, Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines
Type: Image
Date: 2011
Source: Kalgoorlie-Boulder Council

Title: Tess Epis discussing the fires during the riots
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Three camels in front of commercial buildings, Coolgardie, Western Australia
Type: Image
Date: 1890s
Source: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an24613175, National Library of Australia

Title: Three women in foreground and large group of men. Bush scene.
Type: Image
Date: c. 1900
Source: State Library of Western Australia

Title: Vera Beccarelli discussing 'flattening' a boy who called her a 'Ding'
Type: Interview
Source: Criena Fitzgerald

Title: Voids and geology crew working at the Superpit, Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines, Kalgoorlie
Type: Image
Source: Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines

Title: Whiteboy Blazer
Type: Image
Date: 1996
Source: Nalda Searles

Title: Woman and family outside a house made of corrugated iron, ca early 1900s
Type: Image
Source: Outback Family History

Title: Woman on a camel
Type: Image
Source: Outback Family History

Title: Women and children having morning tea, Kalgoorlie, ca early 1900s
Type: Image
Source: Western Australian Museum

Title: Women and girls at the Coolgardie Baths
Type: Image
Date: 1906
Control: 006793d
Source: State Library of Western Australia

Title: Women and their dogs in Kalgoorlie
Type: Image
Source: Kalgoorlie-Boulder Council

Title: Women at the hairdressers in Kalgoorlie, ca early 1900s
Type: Image
Source: Western Australian Museum

Title: Women in uniform, Coolgardie
Type: Image
Date: 1899
Control: 030053PD
Source: State Library of Western Australia

Title: Women in war munitions factory, Kalgoorlie
Type: Image
Source: Eastern Goldfields Historical Society

Title: Women Mining Voids Crew
Type: Image
Date: 2011
Source: Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines

Title: Women's cricket team, Kalgoorlie, ca early 1900s
Type: Image
Source: Outback Family History

Title: Young Japanese prostitute, Kalgoorlie, ca late 1890s
Type: Image
Source: Outback Family History

Title: Young trainee teachers, Olive Hadden and Jean Musk with friends
Type: Image
Date: c. 1920
Source: Tom Scott

Title: Yugoslav Band circa 1930s
Type: Image
Date: c. 1930
Source: Palma Alfirovich

Title: Zelda Radisich and other women digging trenches in Kalgoorlie, World War Two
Type: Image
Source: Eastern Goldfields Historical Association

This exhibition is a project of the National Foundation for Australian Women, in collaboration with the University of Melbourne, as part of the Foundation's ongoing initiative, the Australian Women's Archives Project.

Work on this project was generously funded in 2011-12 by the Government of Western Australia, KCGM (Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines) and Kalgoorlie-Boulder City Council.

Copyright © Criena Fitzgerald and the National Foundation for Australian Women, 2012
Published by the Australian Women's Archives Project
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