tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59490013503854960942024-02-20T06:31:32.790+08:00Carnamah Historical Society & Museum's BlogNews on what we're up to, interesting discoveries about our district's history and other news and thoughts!Andrew Bowman-Brighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956365481019827939noreply@blogger.comBlogger138125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5949001350385496094.post-90786224947693274212023-01-01T22:27:00.004+08:002023-01-01T22:29:27.287+08:00Our Most Popular Online Content in 2022<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">With 2022 done and dusted, we've dived into our online statistics for the year. We were delighted to have welcomed 48,655 people to our website 63,718 times! If you're counted in that number, thanks for stopping by!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Below are the top ten most popular pages on our website in the year that was 2022, which is a nice blend of state-wide and local history content.<br /><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1991" data-original-width="4000" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-oxkf8H2tycKSoPubtq4giybu_sVyOs8tEJk_lOrJedpkMKzk8ZGqcTjAGdCdNEJKE1sP0kN048_Q3_VLpQWrULfKDpbo32Vjwyr8D5efr4vZSq84TWGLyy-AU8oYCvy7CYqV3QxLDERxRK3uoZpfkWJu4WFP5QR2a4Cy9TZRXN0RjtbYmL2-TY7R/w640-h318/2022.png" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><b>1. Index of Western Australian Teachers<br /></b></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Topping the list was our <a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/teachers">index of state school teachers in Western Australia</a> from 1900 to 1980, which was compiled from historic editions of The Education Circular.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>2. Biographical Dictionary</b><br />Our continually expanding <a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/biographical-dictionary">Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs</a> comes in at number two. We've listed the most popular biographies in a supplementary list further below.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>3. Index of Western Australian License Plates</b><br />Number three is our <a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/car-registrations">index of early Western Australian motor vehicle registrations</a>, which spans the years 1915 to 1928. This great index was compiled from the RAC's Year Book & Road Guides which listed every registered vehicle in the state!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>4. Virtual Museum</b><br />Our <a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/virtual-museum">virtual museum</a> of 14 online exhibitions continues to be a crowd-pleaser. Its exhibitions showcase objects, images and stories from our collection.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>5. Midland Railway</b><br />Speaking of our virtual museum, its exhibition on the <a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/midland-railway">Midland Railway</a> is yet again one of our most popular pages.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>6. Cemeteries</b><br />Our <a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/cemeteries">cemetery index</a> spanning the Mingenew Moora, Perenjori, Three Springs and Winchester cemeteries comes in at number six.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>7. Schools</b><br />Our online exhibition on <a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/schools">schools</a> across Carnamah, Coorow and Three Springs is a surprise appearance in the year's top ten.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>8. Macpherson Homestead</b><br />Our eighth most popular page was our visitor info for the historic <a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/homestead">Macpherson Homestead</a>, located just one kilometre east of the Carnamah townsite on the Bunjil-Carnamah Road.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>9. Three Springs History</b><br />As with previous years, our <a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/three-springs-history">early history of Three Springs</a> continues to be one of our most well-read pages.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>10. Before Electricity</b><br />Our online exhibition on <a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/before-electricity">life prior to electricity</a> comes in at number ten, which is no surprise as it is widely used in classrooms across WA and further afield.<br /><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/biographical-dictionary" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="252" data-original-width="1204" height="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWAfDxJ0dMbIuDa594-XHTUtmvgALJSrlSH3LEjAOoCVF6NSRKr5n0TMAPMwdPsSDlNarNEdl_ojyI2Ff7BZHNYHrvKXVo5890hQaRUpeIlNHLaALjoxF_mtGx_9kAOsMaQPmu6vd0lIKPX6nFZPPip4K7JDgVmnRaQgce8Caggnw2ENOFfPnpcUu7/w640-h134/filmstrip-one.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/biographical-dictionary" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="210" data-original-width="950" height="142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiGwxbrV7v7wEauPao6aStFsSoOAFSmu_TAgL4T-yC7mblAejkvhXvzqTICUfSZt2fmXWmAmlrJP8iu8-c9zDvRWNXut6eP6pUUyvGKWqgy_l1Nx80IuZCr87hKZLutu_P1YwAOMGjis3v4HdDSJKFN1OJqIepGrAuiKOBqo0RZ8yDljWEGRz61D8_/w640-h142/bd-logo.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />Our <a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/biographical-dictionary">Biographical Dictionary</a> contains information on thousands of people with connections to Carnamah, Coorow, Three Springs and other nearby places. Below were the most viewed entries in the dictionary during 2022.<p></p></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">1. Local bushranger <a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/francis-henry-william-thomas">Frank Thomas</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">2. Bishop <a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/rosendo-salvado">Rosendo Salvado</a> of the Benedictine Monastery in New Norcia</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">3. Shepherd and farmhand <a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/joachim-dido">Joachim Dido</a> of Carnamah</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">4. <a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/mary-oliver">Granny Latham</a> of Coorow (Mary Oliver / Latham)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">6. <a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/sarah-campbell">Sarah Campbell</a> of Arrino</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">7. Renowned building contractor and later the world's largest individual farmer <a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/friederich-wilhelm-gustav-liebe">Gus Liebe</a> of Waddy Forest</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">8. Scottish born <a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/duncan-macpherson">Duncan Macpherson</a> who established the pastoral station 'Carnamah' in the 1860s</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">9. <a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/albert-nebrong">Albert Nebrong</a>, the son of Aboriginal woman Mary Wirbina and a member of the Macpherson family</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">10. Carnamah farmhand, shearer and farm manager <a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/edward-henry-edwards">Teddy Edwards</a><br /><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/biographical-dictionary" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="252" data-original-width="1204" height="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYnXpyCQVqc_q6b6mh8BAwpt1CxqUH9izxCxmubs5PZcXzGXU_awRMJs5oMy_G3dwZexJID-7BHZkGExSsic6yoiRfkiiFTkWlbA2ofvLZmLUuumF-O3fx_WdMI2mjn0iW7HvGhGBS9D-eRUBMGFIupg9nLe5pG5uk8wg-qsrUddrKljhAAfQUzEjt/w640-h134/filmstrip-two.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Andrew Bowman-Brighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956365481019827939noreply@blogger.com010 Macpherson St, Carnamah WA 6517, Australia-29.6886138 115.886489-59.246897157971276 80.730238999999983 -0.13033044202871835 151.042739tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5949001350385496094.post-5448774064268803932022-01-14T11:45:00.001+08:002022-01-14T11:45:00.212+08:00Child Engagement in Museums: Pop Art<p><b style="font-family: verdana;">The third instalment in a series of guest blog posts by Shiona Herbert of Ignite Your Audience</b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br />Museums and heritage sites offer an abundance of artistic stimulation. You can provide a simple clipboard of blank paper and a grey lead pencil and invite visitors to sketch what they like: an artefact, a building, a display, a landscape… whatever catches their eye.<br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />Photography boffins can spend hours creating perfectly composed photographs of heritage objects. And in this digital age, we can take a quick snap on our SMART phone of items that inspire us in a museum space.<br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />In fact, a wonderful way of bringing the past and the present together is to take a photo of something from the past and use a present-day App to give it a whole new interpretation. This is something that the Perenjori Primary School students achieved while exploring our virtual exhibitions.<br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />Students scrolled through our online content looking for something to catch their eye. They saved a copy of an image they found appealing and turned it into an example of Pop Art via the PhotoFunia App. One of the pioneers of Pop Art was Andy Warhol, an American advertising artist who took every day items (soup cans, soap boxes, commercial photographs…etc.) and repurposed them into fine art. The PhotoFunia filters are representative of Warhol’s contribution to the genre.</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg72LXyrMRNWZgUOLtRYz2N-377188U3Npp6aGfdK1Zte66mdPN-MJYpHlT18GfvmJP2jOzdrcIhT-VEnZclWz1zRzNhpxbf0XjPdWJKoRa9k_v5BmNz5EN_uq-cegoZL3HPA-ePQnNkF81pwKqWQUzPO-Ybh7tbaRF5tEwxtImmAlVRrFSoVCJ_2iY=s445" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="441" data-original-width="445" height="634" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg72LXyrMRNWZgUOLtRYz2N-377188U3Npp6aGfdK1Zte66mdPN-MJYpHlT18GfvmJP2jOzdrcIhT-VEnZclWz1zRzNhpxbf0XjPdWJKoRa9k_v5BmNz5EN_uq-cegoZL3HPA-ePQnNkF81pwKqWQUzPO-Ybh7tbaRF5tEwxtImmAlVRrFSoVCJ_2iY=w640-h634" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">Postmaster General telephone exchange timer from the Post Office virtual exhibition, created using the PhotoFunia app.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Students in Perenjori took the time to explain why they chose a particular image and our Virtual Curator made an entire </span><a href="https://www.blog.carnamah.com.au/2017/06/carnamah-perenjori-meets-andy-warhol.html" style="font-family: verdana;">online gallery</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> of their Museum Pop Art. They were thrilled to see their digital artwork on display for the whole world to see. Some even had relatives living in other countries and encouraged them to jump online and look at their artistic contribution. It really was a wonderful way to engage our local youth and increase our online viewing numbers.<br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />So, the next time a teacher books a visit to your museum, encourage them to bring their iPads and schedule time in the excursion for them to take photos of the items in your collection and turn them into Pop Art. Before they leave, arrange with the teacher to send the images to the museum.<br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />If your museum has an online platform, take the time to upload the Pop Art created; whether it’s a website, Facebook or Instagram account. It will generate a fresh interest in an established collection. If your museum doesn’t have an online presence, that’s ok, you’ve got walls to display the art on! Even consider holding an ‘official unveiling’ of the Pop Art Gallery and invite your artists to come back for drinks & nibbles and celebrate the new interpretation of items in your museum. (Heads up – when inviting children to official arty events, be sure to have a small basket of Chupa Chup lollypops for the kids to enjoy.)<br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />To learn how to use PhotoFunia to create pop art images (and to see some more examples), <a href="http://PhotoFunia-museum-pop-art.pdf">download our quick PDF guide</a>.<br /><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEglCnaZWVeIXPwU9oHp_22_Lb7PYCGWSlTYGZJsACYvmhhaod5bev9_QYL6YJH_vIlVha2U5BPZHQxbjwhXFJlDYkrOx9AijB6ObgLrwXNnqiL1zL7FgN-2s0WG0QvuvwR79bTxnvnCbIUIw9RWp28tAlCVUMlUva_67SRXkSvBqWf6ggk_ett8xmeE=s550" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="494" data-original-width="550" height="574" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEglCnaZWVeIXPwU9oHp_22_Lb7PYCGWSlTYGZJsACYvmhhaod5bev9_QYL6YJH_vIlVha2U5BPZHQxbjwhXFJlDYkrOx9AijB6ObgLrwXNnqiL1zL7FgN-2s0WG0QvuvwR79bTxnvnCbIUIw9RWp28tAlCVUMlUva_67SRXkSvBqWf6ggk_ett8xmeE=w640-h574" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">Ticket from the Midland Railway virtual exhibition, created using the PhotoFunia app</span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The third instalment in a series of guest blog posts by Shiona Herbert of Ignite Your Audience</b></span></p>Andrew Bowman-Brighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956365481019827939noreply@blogger.com010 Macpherson St, Carnamah WA 6517, Australia-29.6886138 115.886489-57.998847636178844 80.730239 -1.3783799638211534 151.04273899999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5949001350385496094.post-64586778958080553422022-01-10T07:08:00.000+08:002022-01-10T07:08:00.197+08:00Child Engagement in Museums: School Holiday Trails<p><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">The second instalment in a series of guest blog posts by Shiona Herbert of Ignite Your Audience</span></b></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEixD6ED4NNE3RtJPYjIUy41jzE5QoJTj3L0WRz_KvZ6lsRkHte3TrZqqVNLa1dDpvjf_imnVcrXWhE7IlFfKuaks_0k23VMbYUIPqOHZV-L0TkSFSGIZiKlhw7WpPWNXZuvfNfaXR2fJsm5E5R5Xn9b77Xi9w9cGDSqdpbBxSJsmScPSrhqwPLcPsxt=s517" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="517" data-original-width="517" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEixD6ED4NNE3RtJPYjIUy41jzE5QoJTj3L0WRz_KvZ6lsRkHte3TrZqqVNLa1dDpvjf_imnVcrXWhE7IlFfKuaks_0k23VMbYUIPqOHZV-L0TkSFSGIZiKlhw7WpPWNXZuvfNfaXR2fJsm5E5R5Xn9b77Xi9w9cGDSqdpbBxSJsmScPSrhqwPLcPsxt=s320" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: verdana;">School holidays are scheduled four times a year in Australia – that's four prime opportunities to encourage families to visit your museum, so energise your collection with a simple theme that connects easily to children… TOYS! <br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />Let's take </span><i style="font-family: verdana;">Smurfs</i><span style="font-family: verdana;"> for example. These are great because they connect to those who loved Smurfs growing up in the 70s and 80s, and they connect to modern children who've witnessed a ‘Smurf revival’ with The Smurfs movie.<br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />Collect a bunch of Smurf figurines, plush toys, books and games and place them in and around your museum - such as inside display cabinets, beside artefacts, and even create a little 'reading corner' of comfy cushions and Smurf books. Such items can be easily acquired from Gumtree, Facebook Marketplace, op-shops, or borrowed from local families.<br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />It won't take much time to set them up in the museum, so the energy you have left over can go into making an advert for your local paper advertising the 'Arrival of the Smurfs'. While you're at it, send your advert to your local schools so they can place it in their newsletter or promote it on their Skoolbag app. Leave the toy trail up for a month, then pack it away and bring it out again in a year or two.<br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />Take it one step further and invite a school or community group to come and actually place the Smurfs amongst your collection. This provides a great opportunity to build more 'ambassadors' for your museum. When people are involved with a space, they take pride in it and are more likely to promote it to others. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgghcSfQZOtE8LRNa-1kNm8KBkJNRF4mhxQyn8AJKia_de9qVrTPYZ8vL449DIAeqby2f4vYwt3jF8kyIFhtGbPqge9jQImhv4xRxfpAWI-xbehV5OydQOxLUA2bMhX2KZ5KRgAeGYLZrGJOTW1cl6h5zBbbf9JpH1oQ6Wzy-1dC9sFRz-bWHwkcRL-=s513" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="513" data-original-width="487" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgghcSfQZOtE8LRNa-1kNm8KBkJNRF4mhxQyn8AJKia_de9qVrTPYZ8vL449DIAeqby2f4vYwt3jF8kyIFhtGbPqge9jQImhv4xRxfpAWI-xbehV5OydQOxLUA2bMhX2KZ5KRgAeGYLZrGJOTW1cl6h5zBbbf9JpH1oQ6Wzy-1dC9sFRz-bWHwkcRL-=w608-h640" width="608" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />You may not expect to see a collection of 'monsters' displayed at a museum, but that's exactly what we did to connect to a <i>Monster Stall</i> market event the local Agricultural Society hosted across the road from the museum.<br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />Prior to the event we gathered a heap of plush monster toys and monster trucks, then placed them amongst our artefacts on the day of the stall. We placed a flyer about the <i>Monster Trail</i> on the community noticeboard at the local supermarket encouraging people to come and 'find the museum monsters' after attending the Monster Stall.</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />This worked a treat as we had over 40 people of all ages come and look for the Monsters (which is a great turn-out for a small country town museum on a day of pouring rain). Those who popped in searched for the 'museum monsters' and received a monster sticker for their efforts.<br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />This example illustrates that its not just school holidays that such an idea can be implemented; employ it to maximise visitor numbers when more people will be visiting your town for an event. By the way, the kids don’t actually touch or collect up the monsters - they just spot them, squeal with delight at finding one, and then it's off to search for the next one!<br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBt2KCZB_HyG4FSU5TegLK8VMFYsjFGz-5FAtJVhxAkAPXY-fj0VOZ9SBz4tOu4a-fDR2ZWDrCEu2TZQ1C6mE651QekXuZ_p30KPOGWXZ5rid2X0HYs1pNVPxcGEWEahnAO41l6ota74jiBEw6HvDp-2F9WUCKK-fGSkNHtLNcIXPvYcT0MM9h3VD0=s620" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="620" data-original-width="550" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBt2KCZB_HyG4FSU5TegLK8VMFYsjFGz-5FAtJVhxAkAPXY-fj0VOZ9SBz4tOu4a-fDR2ZWDrCEu2TZQ1C6mE651QekXuZ_p30KPOGWXZ5rid2X0HYs1pNVPxcGEWEahnAO41l6ota74jiBEw6HvDp-2F9WUCKK-fGSkNHtLNcIXPvYcT0MM9h3VD0=w568-h640" width="568" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>The practice of creating a toy trail occurs at larger museums too. The Western Australian Shipwrecks Museum in Fremantle offers their renowned <a href="http://museum.wa.gov.au/museums/shipwrecks/riddled-rats"><i>Riddled with Rats</i></a> holiday program every couple of years. They simply place 12 large rubber rats around the collection for visitors to find. They repeat it because it's so popular!<br /></span><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Why do they use rats? Because the Shipwrecks collection is predominantly from 17th century shipwrecks along the West Australian coast. There would have been plenty of rats onboard the ships that wrecked here as well as on those that successfully bypassed us on their way to Batavia (modern day Jakarta) as part of the spice trade. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />In terms of the cost of the trail, rubber rats are relatively cheap to buy and are easily stored. The Riddled with Rats trail also offer colourful A4 double sided trail guides to direct the experience and provide rat themed colouring sheets. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />You can value add by offering <a href="https://www.blog.carnamah.com.au/2021/08/child-engagement-in-museums-diy-colour.html">DIY colour-in sheets</a> too, but otherwise, just place the Smurfs, Minions, Hello Kitty, ceramic cows… whatever it is you choose, amongst your collection and invite people to come and find these cheeky temporary museum residents.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />If you find these ideas appealing for getting more people through the door then <a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/edu-school-holiday-trails.pdf">download the PDF</a> for a brief guide of things to keep in mind when creating your Museum Toy Trail.<br /><br /></span></div><div><b style="font-family: verdana;">This is the second instalment in a series of guest blog posts by Shiona Herbert of Ignite Your Audience.</b></div>Andrew Bowman-Brighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956365481019827939noreply@blogger.com010 Macpherson St, Carnamah WA 6517, Australia-29.6886138 115.886489-57.998847636178844 80.730239 -1.3783799638211534 151.04273899999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5949001350385496094.post-67838367487471138442021-08-10T01:47:00.002+08:002021-08-10T21:28:58.753+08:00Child Engagement in Museums: DIY Colour-in Pages<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The first instalment in a series of guest blog posts by Shiona Herbert of Ignite Your Audience</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A small table with pencils, textas and colour-in pages will always attract the eye of young visitors in a museum. It's an area that they'll naturally gravitate toward for a number of reasons. Sometimes it's the only thing that is allowed to be touched in a museum space (and boy, do kids want to touch things in museums); </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">it might be the only furniture in the museum suited to their </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">height; or it might be a space that family members encourage them toward as Mum's and Dad's are grateful for the bit of bonus time they can have to themselves to stroll through the collection! It's much more pleasant seeing kids absorbed in a creative endeavor than watching them like a hawk so that they don’t disrupt precious artefacts.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">You could choose any old colour-in but something unrelated to your museum lacks authenticity and the opportunity to make a connection to the items in your collection. If you have lots of tractors and vintage farming equipment, provide colour-ins related to this. If you have an impressive collection of sports memorabilia, find sport related colouring sheets. Or maybe you’ve got some wonderful dolls and toys on display – provide colour-in sheets related to this theme.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">There are plenty of free colour-in sheets available on Google, just conduct a search of your chosen theme and collect half a dozen suitable images, print them out, and photocopy a bunch of them. If you’ve got a little more time on your hands, consider making your own colour-in designs using images from your photo collection.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCXkXVQXFDhIHsDRoKE47zrAzezIZHlNeadHrZIv8HRMk79Jl5IeqxpwLlgLsGPayOJZ-XU0IOp8L2xDfLPLRM8H4ddMhfDFQtTt8phCzpO5nmvbahW8zW6MUPExFR1mW0423lbNVbs4A/s2048/milk-cream-butter-28.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1341" data-original-width="2048" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCXkXVQXFDhIHsDRoKE47zrAzezIZHlNeadHrZIv8HRMk79Jl5IeqxpwLlgLsGPayOJZ-XU0IOp8L2xDfLPLRM8H4ddMhfDFQtTt8phCzpO5nmvbahW8zW6MUPExFR1mW0423lbNVbs4A/w640-h420/milk-cream-butter-28.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: verdana;">How Do I Do That? </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Find photos in your collection that you think will connect to a child audience.</li><li>Scan them to create a digitised version of the photo.</li><li>Open the image in Photoshop, another photo-editing program or even Word!</li><li>Apply a treatment to the image to make it black and white and adjust the brightness and contrast to make the image more simplistic.</li><li>Place your museum logo somewhere on the page in a spot that doesn't detract from the image.</li><li>Print it out, have a go at colouring it in yourself and check if it <i>feels right</i> for colouring.</li><li>Print or photocopy a small pile of them with textas, crayons or pencils, ready for the young visitors to your museum.</li></ol></div><div>If you don't have photo-editing software, you can download a guide on how to do this in Word <a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/museum-engagement-DIY-colour-in-sheets.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>More Ideas</b></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Take it to another level and have a cleared wall or large pin-up board to display completed colour-in sheets. Remember to ask your artists to sign their work! It may just prompt a visit from other family members to see their children's colour-in art displayed in the museum!</li><li>Have a whole set of different museum colour-in’s stapled together and ready to give out to those who show lots of interest in the colour-in pages. Everyone loves a freebie to take home and while they work on the colouring sheets, it will prompt them to think about the museum again. Who knows, it might even provoke them to ask Mum or Dad to take them for another visit.</li><li>Many little country towns have colour-in pages included in the community newsletter or local paper. Including a museum-colour-in page is a double win: kids get to colour something of local relevance and your museum receives a valuable marketing opportunity.</li></ul></div><div>If you really enjoy creating these personalised museum colour-ins, consider other platforms and places where they may be welcome. For example, there are often kids attending sports practice and you could create a series of Sport Legends colour-in pages of former local team photos. Or you might have some absolute cracker photos from agricultural shows of the past. Use these for a Let’s Put on a Show collection of colour-ins and make them available at the next town show.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikdaqCaNVcbcLn2wLSBg7X0-n2XwgDzsnZ18oA5ihBrjFdzfTS2WbSka5oLvObYafTBRlR95H_Uxtj-eeaGfwkDsOwgJ5CEALC3jXPaYtw2v6gj6UJ0D3hNpxB3D8OQ9HH3JY2vALWHoc/s2048/milk-cream-butter-29.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1550" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikdaqCaNVcbcLn2wLSBg7X0-n2XwgDzsnZ18oA5ihBrjFdzfTS2WbSka5oLvObYafTBRlR95H_Uxtj-eeaGfwkDsOwgJ5CEALC3jXPaYtw2v6gj6UJ0D3hNpxB3D8OQ9HH3JY2vALWHoc/w484-h640/milk-cream-butter-29.jpg" width="484" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The colour-in sheets shown on this page are from our <a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/edu/milk-cream-butter.pdf">Milk, Cream + Butter education resource</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>This is the first instalment in a series of guest blog posts by Shiona Herbert of Ignite Your Audience.</b></div></span></div>Andrew Bowman-Brighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956365481019827939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5949001350385496094.post-15072700779799601772020-06-11T09:38:00.005+08:002020-06-11T09:38:00.688+08:00Influenza Pandemic of 100 Years Ago<div><font face="verdana">The H1N1 influenza virus pandemic, often referred to as the Spanish Flu, spread across the world in 1918 and 1919. It is believed to have infected about 500 million people, which was at the time about one third of the world's population.</font></div><div><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div><font face="verdana">The global death toll was estimated to have been between 17 and 50 million people, and may have been as high as 100 million. It is classified as one of the deadliest pandemics in human history. Nearly 12,000 Australians perished during the pandemic.</font></div><div><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div><font face="verdana">To add some local context, below are some snippets from a few Western Australian newspapers. We wouldn't suggest smoking, as recommended in the second one!</font></div><div><font face="verdana"><br /><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana" size="4"><b>From The Geraldton Express, 4 December 1918:</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><b><br /></b></font></div><div><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir-mmUQjXTO8L9xH9hkZN_96gT3Mr7mahwkWkJEWMCcNnVRoBbRO0mTV-xLmR34h0_VTEOzAm1BSgh4VuUUGdIqzXWTdqgT6ywnNLREucRxTyVsD9gmiS6V3zzLBubOEOwk6LAW20C6mc/s1302/Geraldton+Express+-+4+Dec+1918.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><font face="verdana"><img border="0" data-original-height="1302" data-original-width="1031" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir-mmUQjXTO8L9xH9hkZN_96gT3Mr7mahwkWkJEWMCcNnVRoBbRO0mTV-xLmR34h0_VTEOzAm1BSgh4VuUUGdIqzXWTdqgT6ywnNLREucRxTyVsD9gmiS6V3zzLBubOEOwk6LAW20C6mc/w506-h640/Geraldton+Express+-+4+Dec+1918.jpg" width="506" /></font></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /><br /><b><font size="4">From The West Australian, 19 June 1919:</font></b></font></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pictured here, with the addition of the tree, is an early 1930s snap of <a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/stanley-leopold-hidden">Stan Hidden</a>'s <i>The Corner Store</i> at 2 Macpherson Street in Carnamah. The store continues today, now known as Wallaces News & Drapery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The <i>NARM</i> on the banner refers to a brand of shoes, which were sold at the store. They get an honourable mention in the below advertisement for the store, which appeared in The Irwin Index newspaper on 23 AUgust 1930.</span><br />
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Andrew Bowman-Brighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956365481019827939noreply@blogger.com02 Macpherson St, Carnamah WA 6517, Australia-29.6890291 115.88525709999999-55.2110661 74.5766606 -4.1669920999999981 157.19385359999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5949001350385496094.post-49144934898220842802019-11-29T20:24:00.001+08:002021-01-03T02:41:46.714+08:00Less Hysterical Objectives for the Future of History<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The Carnamah Historical Society was formed in 1983 and was incorporated in 1992 when the </span><a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/museum" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Carnamah Museum</a><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> was established. Like many other community organisations around Western Australia, we recently updated our Rules of Association (or constitution) to be compliant with new legislation.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">During this process we modernised our organisational objectives to reflect the work we do and our aspirations for the future. At times, some historical societies are referred to as <i>hysterical societies</i> due to possessive control of collections, resistance to change or from focusing solely on colonial or British settlers to the exclusion of all others.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">We are very pleased to share our redefined objectives which have been developed for us to continue as a modern, progressive and inclusive heritage organisation. Our objectives align us to stay focused on the sharing, protection and promotion of history for the betterment of the community.</span><br />
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<li><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Foster interest and understanding of local history and heritage;</span></li>
<li><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Research, compile, document and reference information, stories and memories pertaining to the people and places of Carnamah and surrounding communities;</span></li>
<li><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Make local history freely accessible through the publishing and sharing of images and information;</span></li>
<li><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Foster respect and appreciation of Aboriginal history, heritage and culture;</span></li>
<li><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Collect, record, preserve, interpret and promote objects, photographs and archival material relating to the history and heritage of Carnamah and surrounding communities;</span></li>
<li><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Manage, develop and promote the Carnamah Museum;</span></li>
<li><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Manage, conserve, activate and promote the state heritage listed Macpherson Homestead;</span></li>
<li><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Undertake research and compile information to facilitate Aboriginal family history, reconciliation, intergenerational healing and to acknowledge connection to country;</span></li>
<li><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Nurture the expression of history and heritage through creative and artistic endeavours;</span></li><li><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Provide opportunities for physical and online volunteering;</span></li>
<li><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Build stronger local communities by fostering sense of place, connection and identity through the sharing of stories;</span></li>
<li><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Encourage the conservation of built, indigenous and environmental heritage;</span></li>
<li><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Play an active role in heritage and cultural tourism in the Mid West region;</span></li>
<li><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Assist other history, heritage, arts and cultural organisations with advice and guidance;</span></li>
<li><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Collaborate with community organisations, local governments, educational institutions, the private sector and government agencies; and</span></li>
<li><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Establish and maintain a public fund for the Carnamah Museum.</span></li>
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Andrew Bowman-Brighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956365481019827939noreply@blogger.com0Carnamah WA 6517, Australia-29.6906487 115.88706219999995-30.1319592 115.24161519999994 -29.2493382 116.53250919999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5949001350385496094.post-51374648128646009262019-10-21T15:29:00.000+08:002019-12-13T17:41:07.847+08:00Waddy Forest or Waddi Forest?<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Every so often we receive an email or comment from someone perplexed as to how we've spelled Waddi Forest incorrectly - not once but hundreds if not thousands of times! Goodness, how did that happen!?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It turns out there's no mistake in this recurring 'error' of ours. We took our lead from the Coorow Heritage Group, deciding to use what</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> is the official spelling today and what was the most frequently used spelling over the district's earlier years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The late Alison Doley advised us that when the the post office was established at Waddy Forest a mistake was made with the postal stamp being issued for Waddy Forrest. A double 'rr' has been used on the presumption that it was surely named after explorer Sir John Forrest. A response was made that no, it was a literal forest (with a single 'r') and arrangements were made for the name to be corrected. However, when the new stamps arrived they were for Waddi Forest. The story goes that at this point the local postmistress gave up!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The stamps were used, marking mail as from Waddi Forest, however, locals and community organisations continued to widely use the spelling of Waddy Forest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We've observed that local and regional newspapers used the Waddy spelling until during the 1940s when the editor of <i>The North Midland Times</i> suddenly changed to Waddi. From the stamps and we believe this change in the press, the spelling of Waddi was gradually used more and more until Waddy was all but a distant memory. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another influence towards the change may have been </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">large-scale and prominent farmer </span><a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/friederich-wilhelm-gustav-liebe" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gus Liebe</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, who named his farm </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Waddi</i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> and was an early user of the Waddi Forest spelling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In 1996 the Coorow Heritage Group successfully requested the spelling of the district be officially corrected and as a result it appears on maps today as Waddy Forest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Related Content:</b></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/coorow-history">Early History of Coorow</a></span></li>
<li><a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/bushranger"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">10863 Bushranger virtual exhibition on bushranger Frank Thomas</span></a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/carnamah/sets/72157633138668538/"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1937 Coorow-Waddy Show Schedule</span></a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.blog.carnamah.com.au/2016/05/coorow-parrot-to-rival-carnamah-cow.html"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Coorow Parrot to rival Carnamah's "Bonny" Cow</span></a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/carnamah/albums/72157633134596025">1949 Coorow-Waddy Show Schedule</a></span></li>
<li><a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/toys"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">TOYS! of Coorow and Carnaman in the 1940s and 50s</span></a></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />If you have a connection to Waddy Forest, we encourage you to take a look at our </span><a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/biographical-dictionary" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, which contains biographies for many of Waddy Forest's settlers and residents.</span></div>
Andrew Bowman-Brighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956365481019827939noreply@blogger.com0Waddy Forest WA 6515, Australia-29.85648 116.20507829999997-30.0768285 115.88235479999997 -29.6361315 116.52780179999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5949001350385496094.post-90095079006233675012019-04-23T20:10:00.000+08:002019-04-29T20:42:50.962+08:00Celebrating 150 Years of Carnamah's Macpherson Homestead<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The family of Duncan and Mary Macpherson shifted to Carnamah in 1868. The family of ten initially squeezed into a three room cottage near the Yarra Yarra Lakes before building a much larger homestead <i>Carnamah House</i> in 1869. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Carnamah House, now known as the Macpherson Homestead. is turning 150 years old in 2019. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The homestead is located one kilometre east of the Carnamah townsite via a sign-posted driveway off the Bunjil-Carnamah Road.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A series of activities are occurring over Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th of May to mark 150 years of this Carnamah landmark.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For more info on the family and their historic homestead, check out:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/macpherson-family">Virtual Museum: Macpherson Family</a></span></li>
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Andrew Bowman-Brighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956365481019827939noreply@blogger.com0Bunjil-Carnamah Rd, Carnamah WA 6517, Australia-29.684046 115.902017-57.157061999999996 74.593423 -2.2110299999999974 157.210611tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5949001350385496094.post-49957249837696042992019-01-04T16:45:00.000+08:002019-01-04T16:45:55.191+08:00War Service Land Settlement in Eneabba<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">36 veterans from the Second World War, who came from all walks of life, moved with their families onto allocated War Service Land Settlement farms in Eneabba between 1959 and 1961.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The farms averaged 3,500 acres each and were boundary fenced and divided into eight 200-acre and one 50-acre pastured paddocks. Two windmills fed into a 5000-gallon concrete tank, which supplied water to a galvanised iron trough in each paddock.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Other standard infrastructure included a two or three-bedroom timber and asbestos house, a timber framed 2-stand shearing shed with machinery lean-to, a one room timber framed single men's quarters with bathroom, and timber sheep yards. Cattle yards were added if desired.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Long term low interest government loans were made available to enable the settlers to repay the cost of the supplied infrastructure and to purchase machinery and livestock. Settlers were granted a living allowance of 9 pound per week for the first twelve months.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When the first settlers arrived there was no town, no telephones or power and the schooling for the first year was in a shearing shed divided into a classroom and assembly area. The winters were wet and the roads poor. Settlers also faced stock losses to native poisonous plants, and poor lambing percentages as a result of the type of clover sown for pastures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 2018 a memorial was unveiled as a tribute to the determination, perseverance and fellowship of these settlers, and the private settlers and business owners who followed. The memorial is located on Eneabba Drive in the Eneabba townsite.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The following photographs were taken by the Millard family who worked clearing the farms before purchasing one of the unsold properties.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>2019 Australia Day:</b> Tammy Sandison will be giving a talk on the War Service Land Settlement at Eneabba as part of the Australia Day celebrations at the Carnamah Hall, starting at 9.39am on Saturday 26 January 2019.</span><br />
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Andrew Bowman-Brighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956365481019827939noreply@blogger.com0Eneabba WA 6518, Australia-29.816667 115.26666699999998-30.257514 114.62121999999998 -29.375819999999997 115.91211399999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5949001350385496094.post-12053742794539538622018-09-24T20:43:00.000+08:002019-12-13T14:06:57.419+08:00Local farmer's photographs shaped the world's view of Australia<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/ernest-lund-mitchell">Ernest Lund Mitchell</a> worked as a photographer in New South Wales and Queensland before settling in Perth. He became one of Western Australia's leading photographers, rising to the position of photographer to the State Government in the 1920s. His images were widely used to advertise Australia internationally and in many instances shaped the world's view of Western Australia. His photos continue to be used today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In 1932, during the Great Depression, Ernest closed his photography business in Perth and moved to his largely unestablished farm near Five Gums in the Carnamah district. He farmed locally until 1946 and his former property was subsequently owned by the Bodycoat and now the Walton family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The life, photographs and impact of Ernest has been extensively researched by archivist and historian Dr Joanna Sassoon, who has produced the award-winning book <i>Agents of Empire: How E. L. Mitchell's Photographs Shaped Australia</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Joanna will be giving a free talk on Ernest, his photos and time farming as part of the Harvest Festival in Carnamah on Saturday afternoon 6 October 2018. The talk "E. L. Mitchell - Carnamah farmer, famous photographer" will begin at 2:15pm and is being held at The Bank Gallery Space, across the road from our <a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/museum">museum</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A second free heritage talk "Bold Scheme: <a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/ready-made-farms">Ready-Made Farms</a> of Carnamah, Winchester & Coorow" is being given on the same day by Andrew Bowman-Bright at 3:30pm. Our museum will be open the entire afternoon.</span>Andrew Bowman-Brighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956365481019827939noreply@blogger.com0Carnamah WA 6517, Australia-29.689 115.88699999999994-30.1303105 115.24155299999994 -29.2476895 116.53244699999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5949001350385496094.post-8159104962393907632018-01-28T12:45:00.000+08:002018-01-28T12:45:04.702+08:00150th Anniversary of the Macpherson Family in Carnamah<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This story begins in Alvie, a parish in Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland. In January 1845 </span><a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/duncan-macpherson" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Duncan Macpherson</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> married </span><a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/mary-wilson" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mary Wilson</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> - and these newlyweds obviously got straight down to business, as their first child was born nine months and ten days after their wedding!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When their first child was not quite three months old, the three of them boarded a sailing ship in London bound for South Australia. Two years later they shifted to Western Australia, travelling from Adelaide to Fremantle by ship, which was the most effective method of travel at the time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shortly after their arrival in WA they moved to Toodyay, where Duncan Macpherson worked as a shepherd and labourer. In 1849 he leased <i>Byeen</i> Farm in Toodyay, where the family would remain for 18 years. Duncan and Mary ended up with nine children - <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/aeneas-macpherson">Aeneas</a> born in Scotland, <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/lachlan-wilson-macpherson">Locke</a> born in South Australia and <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/john-macpherson">Jock</a>, <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/elizabeth-macpherson">Bessie</a>, <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/margaret-macpherson">Maggie</a>, <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/william-wilson-macpherson">Bill</a>, <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/donald-macpherson">Donald</a>, <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/alexander-macpherson">Alick</a> and <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/george-macpherson">George</a>, who were all born in Toodyay.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While farming in Toodyay, Duncan took up a number of pastoral leases in <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/history">Carnamah</a> in 1861. As hard as it to imagine today, they herded livestock from Toodyay to graze on their land in Carnamah. It was during this time that Duncan or one of his elder sons fathered two Aboriginal children in Carnamah, and their names were <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/albert-nebrong">Albert Nebrong</a> and <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/frances-nebrong">Frances Nintigian</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Meanwhile, back in Toodyay, things weren't going too well. Duncan and Mary's eldest son <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/aeneas-macpherson">Aeneas</a> had died in 1866 and mounting debt, pending bankruptcy and then a disastrous fire saw them evicted from <i>Byeen</i> Farm in late 1867. Their livestock, farm implements and even their household furniture was sold to clear their debts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">150 years ago, in 1868, Duncan and Mary Macpherson and their eight surviving children shifted to their pastoral leases in Carnamah to start again. They initially resided in a three-room stone cottage near the Yarra Yarra Lakes before shifting close to Carnamah Spring where they built the large home we now call the<a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/homestead"> Macpherson Homestead</a>. In their time it was called <i>Carnamah</i> House and it was the centrepiece of <i>Carnamah</i> Station, a pastoral station that was eventually over 125,000 acres in size (more than 50,000 hectares).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The family developed Carnamah Station to breed and graze sheep near the Yarra Yarra Lakes and both cattle and horses further east. They employed mostly Aboriginal people but also Ticket of Leave convicts and <a href="http://www.blog.carnamah.com.au/2012/12/the-story-of-ah-sue-chinaman-of.html">Chinese immigrants</a>. Carnamah was at this time quite literally in the middle of nowhere. The family played a significant role in WA's early communications by running a telegraph office from their homestead and in delivering mail on horseback along parts of the mail-route between Perth and Geraldton. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 1891 Duncan Macpherson and his sons had 10,000 sheep, 300 horses and 300 head of cattle in Carnamah. They sold their livestock after herding them overland to Guildford and Geraldton. They were cropping just 40 acres in 1891 but had plans for more once the railway went through, as it would then be easier and more economical to move their grain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some of Duncan and Mary Macpherson's children eventually dispersed as they grew older. <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/lachlan-wilson-macpherson">Locke</a> leased and ran <i>Yandenooka</i> Station in the Mingenew district; <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/john-macpherson">Jock</a> was a farmer and innkeeper in Greenough before managing <i>Arrino</i> Station; <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/william-wilson-macpherson">Bill</a> managed Tibradden Station near Geraldton; and <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/alexander-macpherson">Alick</a> managed <i>Billabalong</i> Station in the Murchison.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Duncan Macpherson's wife Mary died in Carnamah in 1888 and her body was taken back to Toodyay to be buried alongside their eldest son. Duncan died ten years after his wife, in 1898, and was also buried in Toodyay. His sons <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/donald-macpherson">Donald</a> and <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/george-macpherson">George</a> took over <i>Carnamah</i> Station. In addition to the station the two brothers transported wagons full of supplies and machinery from Perth to the first gold mine at Rothsay and also gathered timber which they carted and sold to the Great Fingal Mine in Cue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just before Christmas in 1904 the Macpherson brothers Donald and George went shooting wild turkeys some distance from their homestead. When about halfway home, they stopped to give an Aboriginal man some rations. Donald handed the reins of their horse-drawn buggy to George, with his gun between his legs. The reins became entangled with the trigger of the gun and it exploded, with terrible consequences for George's right arm. Donald rushed his brother to the train and a doctor joined them along the way to Perth. The next day George's arm was amputated but sadly, he was reported to have died from shock on Christmas day in 1904. He was also buried in Toodyay.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/donald-macpherson">Donald Macpherson</a> then became the sole owner of Carnamah Station. He continued to live in the family homestead, along with his two sisters <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/elizabeth-macpherson">Bessie</a> and <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/margaret-macpherson">Maggie</a>. By this time the station had more than halved in size as the government had taken a lot of the land they had been leasing and given it to the <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/midland-railway">Midland Railway Company</a> - which was in payment for building for the railway from Midland to Walkaway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Carnamah was slow to grow following the arrival of the railway, with only a hand-full of people taking up small farms between the railway line and the Yarra Yarra Lakes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 1906 the government opened up <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/three-springs-history">Three Springs</a> for farming under the name of the Kadathinni Agricultural Area. It quickly turned into a thriving and populated community and Donald Macpherson was very actively involved in its early development. He was the Founding President of the Three Springs Race Club and the Three Springs Rifle Club and an Inaugural Vice President of the Kadathinni Cricket Club in Three Springs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Donald was heavily into horse racing and owned a number of successful racehorses. One of them, named Carnamah, won a series of prizes at races in Perth and on the goldfields between 1909 and 1912. Donald imported an English stallion named Grenelle, which went on to be awarded the Champion Horse at the Perth Royal Show. He also exhibited his livestock to the north, taking horses and cattle to the Irwin Show in Dongara in 1910 - where, among many other prizes, he had the Champion Stallion, Champion Mare, Champion Bull and Champion Cow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Despite Donald's exploits, no one wanted to buy land in Carnamah. The <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/midland-railway">Midland Railway Company</a> were keen to start selling their land in the district so devised a scheme to develop virgin bush into farms and sell them as '<a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/ready-made-farms">Ready-Made Farms</a>'. Many of the families who settled on these properties were from Scotland - including the Lang, Niven, Raffan, Robertson, Forrester and Bowman families. Although Donald and his sisters were born in Australia, they had a strong Scottish identity and combined with these new settlers, Carnamah soon became known as the 'Scotch Settlement'.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Donald Macpherson's Hupmobile car behind the Macpherson Homestead</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Donald led the charge in many community organisations, serving as president and later patron of Carnamah's football, cricket, race and rifle clubs. He also helped get the first Carnamah Hall built and served as president and patron of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society. He was the first from Carnamah to serve on local government, securing a place on the <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/roads-to-government">Upper Irwin Road Board</a> in Mingenew, which had jurisdiction over Carnamah. In 1916 the chairman of the Road Board visited Carnamah and Donald was reported to have driven into every hole and boulder in the district, with the conclusion that a fairer sum would be spent on improving roads in Carnamah.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Donald's sister <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/margaret-macpherson">Maggie</a> never married and died at the <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/homestead">Macpherson Homestead</a> in 1921. She'd fallen from her horse on Old Telegraph Road and received a nasty wound to her face from a stick, which never healed and eventually turned cancerous. Maggie ran the telegraph office in Carnamah for 39 years, operated Carnamah's first post office for 19 years and was also the local meteorological observer. Thanks to Maggie we have rainfall records for Carnamah that stretch back to 1887. In case you were wondering, the monthly rainfall 130 years ago (in January 1888) was 92 millimetres.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 1919, at the age of 61, an unmarried <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/donald-macpherson">Donald Macpherson</a> decided his days of being a large pastoralist were behind him. He sold half of his land to the state government - who subdivided the land and allocated it to soldier settlers from the <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/first-world-war">First World War</a>. He continued to breed livestock but on the scale of a farmer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Donald passed away in 1931. His death was reported in <i>The West Australian</i>, <i>The Sunday Times</i>, <i>The Western Mail</i>, <i>The Irwin Index</i> and <i>The Midlands Advocate</i>. He had been a Justice of the Peace for 44 years and newspaper reports described him as the "Father of Carnamah". All businesses in Carnamah closed on the day of his funeral and over 200 people attended his burial at the Winchester Cemetery. A newspaper report on his funeral lists a long number of people who sent flowers for his grave and among the many names are those of 15 Aboriginal people - many of whom were in fact relatives never openly spoken of and other former employees.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Donald left his estate to his unmarried sister <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/elizabeth-macpherson">Bessie</a> and his nephew <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/percy-campbell-macpherson">Percy Macpherson</a>. They sold his remaining land, keeping only 100 acres surrounding the Macpherson Homestead. His sister Bessie continued to live at the homestead until her death at the age of 87 years in 1939. Bessie and her sister Maggie had lived their latter years in relative comfort, always employing a domestic helper and having a dining table adorned in silverware on starched white linen.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bessie Macpherson, on the left, on the verandah steps of the Macpherson Homestead</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However, what happened to the two Aboriginal children?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The daughter <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/frances-nebrong">Frances Nintigian</a> married James Ryder and spent time at both the Benedictine Mission in New Norcia and at the Moore River Native Settlement in Mogumber. She died near Moora in the 1920s and a number of her children later lived in Carnamah with their partners and children. It is highly probable that some of her descendants might still be living in Carnamah today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The son <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/albert-nebrong">Albert Nebrong</a> worked for many years as a shepherd and stockman on <i>Carnamah</i> Station. In 1898 another Aboriginal man started a fight with him that resulted in the other man's death. Albert was arrested by the police from Mingenew and went before the Supreme Court in Geraldton. He was facing an extremely harsh penalty but ended up with a sentence of just one year's imprisonment, mostly because of the testimony given by <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/george-macpherson">George Macpherson</a>. George described Albert as very good tempered man who he'd never been known to be malicious. As far as the court was aware, George was merely his employer - when in fact he was either his half-brother or uncle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1898 wasn't Albert Nebrong's year as the legal system was also pursuing him for the custody of an Aboriginal child. The child's mother had died and Albert had collected the child and brought it back to Carnamah, believing he was the father. Benedict Cuper also believed the child was his, and with the help of the monks at New Norcia, arranged to get the boy back. Albert was in prison and George Macpherson refused to hand over the child. He was eventually forced to do so by a court order. When they came to collect the boy, <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/donald-macpherson">Donald Macpherson</a> made them walk eight miles to find him, while he rode alongside on a horse, possibly hoping that they wouldn't succeed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After being released from prison Albert Nebrong had a daughter, who was known as both Carnamah Jessie and <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/jessie-nebrong">Jessie Nebrong</a>. Like her father, she was kept close by the Macpherson family. She worked doing odd jobs at the homestead and her partner <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/joachim-dido">Joachim Dido</a> worked for the family as a shepherd.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jessie Nebrong beside a pepper tree at the Macpherson Homestead</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Albert Nebrong later worked in Greenough, possibly for <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/john-macpherson">John Macpherson</a>, before spending time on <i>Ninghan</i> and <i>Coodignow</i> stations in Payne's Find. He died in 1939 but rose to national fame in 1947 when it was claimed that years before his death he had cured himself of tongue cancer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the 1930s Albert had presented at the Dalwallinu Hospital and a very concerned doctor arranged for him to go to Perth for treatment. He took off the next morning and the doctor was so worried for his welfare that he pleaded for authorities to locate him. The police were tasked with finding him and they finally did three years later, however, his tongue required no treatment. He is said to have treated himself using a native plant known as the Maroon bush. The plant was assessed by a drug panel but never progressed to being used in medicine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Albert Nebrong's daughter Jessie remained in Carnamah until the 1940s and received money from </span><a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/malcolm-john-campbell-macpherson" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Malcolm Macpherson</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> whenever he passed through Carnamah. Malcolm was Donald and Bessie's great nephew and he had inherited and sold the Macpherson Homestead after Bessie died. It appears to be the final act of a family who supported and cared for their indigenous family members but who, quite sadly due to the social conditions of the time, never publicly acknowledged them.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The restored Macpherson Homestead in Carnamah in 2004</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jump forward to 2018 and the Macpherson surname lives on as the name of Carnamah's main street. Two streets on the west side of town are also named after them - Donald Street after <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/donald-macpherson">Donald Macpherson</a> and Wilson Street after <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/mary-wilson">Mrs Mary Macpherson's</a> maiden surname. Wilson Street is the only street or road in Carnamah to have been named after a woman.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To discover more...</span></b><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Check out our virtual museum exhibition on the <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/macpherson-family">Macpherson Family</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Visit the <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/homestead">Macpherson Homestead</a> on the Carnamah-Bunjil Road</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Read about each member of the family in our <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/biographical-dictionary">Biographical Dictionary</a></span></li>
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Andrew Bowman-Brighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956365481019827939noreply@blogger.com1Carnamah WA 6517, Australia-29.689 115.88699999999994-30.1303105 115.24155299999994 -29.2476895 116.53244699999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5949001350385496094.post-83187426558591551052018-01-02T21:35:00.000+08:002018-01-31T23:46:07.446+08:00Now online - 10863 Bushranger presented by Act-Belong-Commit<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 2017 the <a href="http://www.northmidlands.org.au/">North Midlands Project</a> and The Bank Gallery Space in Carnamah hosted Di Taylor as their inaugural artist-in-residence. One of the outcomes of Di's residency was a series of artworks exploring the life and stories of our local bushranger Frank Thomas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The artworks created by <a href="http://www.ditaylor.com.au/">Di Taylor</a> culminated in the exhibition <i>10863 Bushranger presented by Act-Belong-Commit</i>. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The exhibition </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">was launched at The Bank Gallery Space in Carnamah and toured to both the Sunshine Festival in Geraldton and to the historic Fremantle Prison in Perth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Incredibly, the exhibition about this largely unknown bushranger reached over 23,000 people within its first four months! </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We're delighted to announce that we recently played a role in bringing the exhibition to even more people </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by reproducing it within the Virtual Museum on our website. You can now check it out online via the below link...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bushranger"><b>10863 Bushranger presented by Act-Belong-Commit</b></a></span></div>
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Andrew Bowman-Brighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956365481019827939noreply@blogger.com0Carnamah WA 6517, Australia-29.689 115.88699999999994-30.1303105 115.24155299999994 -29.2476895 116.53244699999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5949001350385496094.post-47947493528555640632017-11-01T16:32:00.000+08:002017-11-02T03:35:51.793+08:00Updated: Index of Early WA Motor Vehicle Registrations<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We're delighted to share that our hugely popular <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/car-registrations">Index of Early Western Australian Motor Vehicle Registrations</a> has been substantially expanded with the addition of a further four years of registrations! Some of the gaps have been filled and the index now stretches back to 1915.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The updated index contains </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">96,429 entries </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and covers motor vehicles registered in WA for the years 1915, 1916, 1917-18, 1919, 1922-23, 1923-24, 1924-25, 1925-26, 1926-27 and 1927-28. It covers cars and trucks for each year and also motorcycles for earlier years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Each entry contains the person's surname, given names or initials, their address, the brand of their vehicle, the local authority it was registered with and the year. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The index was compiled from lists of registrations that appeared in the annual Year Book & Road Guides of WA's Royal Automobile Club (R.A.C.).</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our project partner, the <a href="http://www.northmidlands.org.au/">North Midlands Project</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The great group of volunteers who skillfully transcribed the data from photographs of photocopied records</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A. John Parker who very kindly loaned us copies of four years of the R.A.C. Year Book & Road Guides to make this index expansion possible</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The State Library of Western Australia who digitised and provided access to the other six years of the R.A.C. Year Book & Road Guides</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jim Gordon who alerted us to the existence of the year books and for his referral to A. John Parker, which inevitably led to this expanded index</span></li>
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Andrew Bowman-Brighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956365481019827939noreply@blogger.com3Western Australia, Australia-27.6728168 121.62830980000001-56.2645173 80.319715800000012 0.91888370000000208 162.9369038tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5949001350385496094.post-31830645084777167842017-10-31T20:21:00.000+08:002018-01-28T19:19:49.575+08:0010863 Bushranger presented by Act-Belong-Commit now at Fremantle Prison<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The exhibition <i>10863 Bushranger presented by Act-Belong-Commit</i> is at the historic Fremantle Prison until 2 January 2017. The exhibition consists of a series of artworks produced by WA visual artist Di Taylor, who was the inaugural artist in residence of the North Midlands Project and The Bank Gallery Space in Carnamah during 2017. Each artwork is accompanied by a short story or anecdote about our local bushranger <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/francis-henry-william-thomas">Frank Thomas</a>, who grew up in Coorow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The exhibition can be found within one of Fremantle Prison's free galleries and can be visited during their opening hours, which are every day from 9am to 5pm except for Christmas day. The prison is located at 1 The Terrace in Fremantle. For more info, check out their website at <a href="http://www.fremantleprison.com.au/">www.fremantleprison.com.au</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Embedded in local folklore is the story of police discovering bushranger Frank Thomas' camp where he was cooking a stolen chicken. He leapt onto his horse and took off, with the police following in hot pursuit. The police eventually lost sight of him so decided they'd return and enjoy his chicken. When they arrived back at Frank's camp he'd already doubled back, taken the chicken and left again!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Above: Photos of <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/francis-henry-william-thomas">Frank Thomas</a> from the Police Gazette of WA</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The photos for the double mugshot were taken when Frank was released from Fremantle Prison in 1921. For more on Frank, check out his entry in the <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/francis-henry-william-thomas">Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs</a>.</span>Andrew Bowman-Brighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956365481019827939noreply@blogger.com01 The Terrace, Fremantle WA 6160, Australia-32.0549838 115.75365910000005-59.5280358 74.445065100000051 -4.5819318000000031 157.06225310000005tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5949001350385496094.post-24895654995903663902017-09-09T17:16:00.000+08:002017-09-09T17:16:14.185+08:00You're Invited to Carnamah: 15-19 September 2017<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">North Midlands Project artist-in-residence <a href="http://www.ditaylor.com.au/">Di Taylor</a> has created a series of artworks based on the stories and life of our local bushranger Frank Thomas. This striking exhibition will open for the first time at 6:30pm this Friday 15 September 2017 at <a href="http://www.thebank.space/">The Bank Gallery Space</a> in Carnamah. This is a free event.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Also launching on Friday evening, 15 September 2017, is the <a href="http://www.nmas.org.au/">North Midlands Agricultural Society's biennial Art & Photography Exhibition</a> at the Town Hall in Carnamah. Tickets can be purchased on the door for $20 with refreshments provided. Entertainment during the evening includes WA singer-songwriter Ashlea Reale, who will be singing Hold on to Your Horse (about bushranger Frank Thomas) and songs written earlier this year with students in Carnamah, Morawa and Perenjori.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Bank Gallery Space, NMAS Art & Photography Exhibition and our </span><a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/museum" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Carnamah Museum</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> will all be open from 10am to 4pm from Saturday 16th of September through to Tuesday 19th of September.</span><br />
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Andrew Bowman-Brighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956365481019827939noreply@blogger.com0Carnamah WA 6517, Australia-29.689 115.88699999999994-30.1303105 115.24155299999994 -29.2476895 116.53244699999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5949001350385496094.post-64176327375624292512017-07-04T23:10:00.001+08:002017-07-05T13:44:14.324+08:00Livestock Brands of Western Australia<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A number of volunteers assisting the Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and the North Midlands Project recently concluded the huge task of transcribing and indexing lists of registered livestock brands for Western Australia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The information was extracted from <i>The Brands Directory</i>, which was published within a number of WA's Government Gazettes. All up, a total of 49,136 entries were extracted for the registered brands that existed in </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1912, 1924 and 1962 as well as those that were added to the list between 1925 and 1928.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Each entry includes the person's surname, given names, property address, the letters/numbers of their livestock brand and the year of the directory that the information comes from. 1912 through to 1928 are horse and cattle firebrands while 1962 includes firebrands/brands and earmarks used on sheep, cattle, goats and/or pigs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You may be surprised to find more than farmers with a registered livestock brand, as a lot of people who lived in country towns and even suburban areas had a registered brand to mark horses and cows kept for domestic use. For example, Carnamah grazier <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/donald-macpherson">Donald Macpherson</a> had the brand OSS, which we expected, but more surprisingly his sisters <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/margaret-macpherson">Margaret</a> and <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/elizabeth-macpherson">Elizabeth</a> also had a brand of their own, which was 1ME.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many people registering a brand in earlier years managed to get their initials as part of their brand, such as Three Springs farmer <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/george-robert-watson">George Watson</a> with 0GW or Coorow farmer <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/captain-philip-farley">Philip Farley</a> with P3F.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />Eventually the range of possible brands with two letters and one number was exhausted and in 1926 brand registrations began to be issued reusing the same combinations but with one of the letters oriented on its side, like in the firebrand shown toward the top of this post (so please be aware that some of those listed between 1926 and 1962 may have included a sideways letter).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For those not in the know, livestock branding is a technique for marking livestock so as to identify the owner. Firebrands are created by putting a metal branding iron into a fire until it is burning hot. The branding iron is then used to burn the brand onto cattle or horses. The main purposes of branding are to prevent the theft of livestock and to be able to identify the owner when stock strays away from its owner and onto another property.</span></span>Andrew Bowman-Brighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956365481019827939noreply@blogger.com2Western Australia, Australia-27.6728168 121.62830980000001-56.2645173 80.319715800000012 0.91888370000000208 162.9369038tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5949001350385496094.post-62146382040863508852017-06-27T11:35:00.000+08:002017-07-01T21:26:22.094+08:00Carnamah-Perenjori meets Andy Warhol<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pop Art artist Andy Warhol once said 'Art is anything you can get away with.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Items in our <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/virtual-museum">Virtual Museum</a> recently received some Pop Art treatment by the Room One students at Perenjori Primary School. As part of their art studies, students selected images from our virtual exhibitions and gave them a whole new look by modifying them with the Photo Funia app. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To quote their teacher Miss Herbert: "Your virtual exhibitions are just like an online gallery space, so the kids selected the image that caught their eye the most, like what occurs when visiting a physical museum, and then they changed the image to become a work of Pop Art. The class will be repeating the process later in the year when they visit the local museum in Perenjori and digitally photograph items on display that catch their eye."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Below are the students' creations along with a short line on why they chose that particular image. Big thanks to the students at Perenjori for sharing their creations and to Alex White who helped get them to us by email.</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"I chose this virtual exhibition image because I want to know how it works and what it was used for" - Tyler, from the <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/before-electricity">Before Electricity</a> exhibition.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"I chose this virtual exhibition image because it has the signatures and is very interesting" - Justice, from the <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/schools">Schools</a> exhibition.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"I chose this virtual exhibition image because the picture is in Egypt and because it has the Sphinx and a pyramid" - Lachlan, from the <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/first-world-war">First World War</a> exhibition.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"I chose this image because we have been learning about <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bushranger">Frank Thomas</a> and because it looks very interesting" - Georgia, from the <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bushranger">Bushranger</a> page.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"I chose this virtual exhibition image because all the other things I didn't really like. I also like it because I think the colours go well together" - Aimee, from the <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/business-houses">Business Houses</a> exhibition.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"I chose this virtual exhibition image because it looks fascinating and it was how diaries were in the olden days" - Chloe, from the <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/books">Books</a> exhibition.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"I chose this virtual exhibition image because it has cool patterns. It also has a height difference which makes it look like mixed marbles" - Hiraani. This image comes from the <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/toys">TOYS!</a> exhibition.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"I chose this virtual exhibition image because Andy Warhol painted soup cans and she looks like she is making soup. I like the fancy colours that the picture has provided and how they are so POPish" - Ariel, from the <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/books">Books</a> exhibition.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"I chose this virtual exhibition image because it's dark, mysterious and creepy like the doll. There are different images that show cool different patterns" - Lehyia, from the <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/toys">TOYS!</a> exhibition.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"I chose this virtual exhibition image because it looks like the rabbit proof fence and its colours are pretty awesome" - Sarai, from the <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/ready-made-farms">Ready-Made Farms</a> exhibition.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"I chose this virtual exhibition image because <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/bushranger">Frank Thomas</a> was really interesting to learn about and I loved the colours that this pop art treatment used" - Tahlia, from the <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/midland-railway">Midland Railway</a> exhibition.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"I chose this virtual exhibition image because of the collaborative art piece we did of The Bank. I also like the old double doors and the stone carving above the doors" - Alex, from the <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/business-houses">Business Houses</a> exhibition.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"I chose this virtual exhibition image because I like woodwork and I want to know how it works" - Jake, from the <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/toys">TOYS!</a> exhibition.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"I chose this virtual exhibition image because I like the plants and I also like the colours" - Orlanda, from the <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/post-office">Post Office</a> exhibition.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"I just love the thought of a tiny little train ticket being displayed in a much grander fashion in a gallery" - Miss Herbert, from the <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/stations+sidings">MRWA Stations & Sidings</a> page of the <a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span id="goog_839345140"></span>Midland Railway<span id="goog_839345141"></span></a> exhibition.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>You can see all of the original images online at <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/virtual-museum">Virtual Museum: to be known and distinguished as Carnamah</a>.</b></span></span>Andrew Bowman-Brighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956365481019827939noreply@blogger.com0Perenjori WA 6620, Australia-29.4652466 116.48466689999998-29.9077226 115.83921989999997 -29.0227706 117.13011389999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5949001350385496094.post-22279606100200724802017-06-12T14:48:00.000+08:002017-07-01T17:57:42.190+08:00Carnamah an 'Inspiring Example' in Participatory Heritage<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Back in 2015 we had a chat over Skype with Courtney Ruge, a postgraduate student at Monash University. We've just discovered that some of our insights have contributed to the chapter <i>Custodianship and Online Sharing in Australia</i> in the book <a href="http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=301232#.WVduloiGOUk">Participatory Heritage</a>, which was published in London earlier this year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"In spite of the issues that appear to be prevalent within the majority of local Australian historical societies, there are examples that demonstrate the potential benefits of image sharing. The Carnamah Historical Society ('Carnamah'; <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/">www.carnamah.com.au</a></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">) provides an inspiring example of what can be achieved when a historical society embraces online platforms. Carnamah believes that its collections belong to the public, having been freely donated to the Society by members of the public, and has significantly raised its profile due to its take-up of social media, making use of an extensive array of platforms including Facebook, Twitter, a blog, Pinterest, Instagram and Flickr. Carnamah also facilitates audience engagement, encouraging collaboration and co-curation by facilitating the contribution of stories about the images featured. As a result of these efforts, the Society won the 2015 Western Australian Heritage Award and is now featured in </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Landmarks</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, a permanent exhibition at the National Museum of Australia."</span><br />
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Andrew Bowman-Brighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956365481019827939noreply@blogger.com0Carnamah WA 6517, Australia-29.689 115.88699999999994-30.1303105 115.24155299999994 -29.2476895 116.53244699999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5949001350385496094.post-55879879708364027372017-05-29T14:32:00.000+08:002019-12-13T10:37:39.248+08:00Inside History: WA's Daring 20th Century Bushranger<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We're delighted to report the story of our local bushranger <a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/bushranger">Frank Thomas</a> has been featured across five pages in the final hardcopy edition of <i>Inside History</i> magazine (Autumn 2017). You can now view the article as a PDF <a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/Fugitive-From-Justice.pdf">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Geraldton Family History Society got their hands on a copy in good time and reported on Facebook: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"The current and final issue of the <i>Inside History</i> magazine has some fantastic articles. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For those of us from Geraldton and the Mid West of WA, <i>A Fugitive from Justice</i> is a must read." (thanks GFHS!)</span>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We'd like to pay tribute to <i>Inside History</i> and the phenomenal job they've done of sharing Australian history, heritage and genealogy over the past few years. We're especially thankful for the multiple opportunities they've given us to reach out to broader and new audiences.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We would also like to thank the great group of volunteers who helped research the bushranger and uncover new information that contributed to the article.<br /><br />For more on Frank Thomas, check out:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The online exhibition <a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/10863-bushranger">10863 Bushranger presented by Act-Belong-Commit</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">His entry in the <a href="https://www.carnamah.com.au/bio/francis-henry-william-thomas">Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs</a></span></li>
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Andrew Bowman-Brighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956365481019827939noreply@blogger.com0Western Australia, Australia-27.6728168 121.62830980000001-56.2645173 80.319715800000012 0.91888370000000208 162.9369038tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5949001350385496094.post-53871709144541042722017-04-14T12:48:00.000+08:002017-04-25T12:50:36.166+08:00Australian Heritage Festival in Carnamah on 30 April 2017<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We invite you to attend Carnamah's first-ever contribution to the Australian Heritage Festival! From 10am to 2-30pm on Sunday 30 April 2017 there are a series of things to do and see in Carnamah.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The old bank building across the road from our museum has undergone a transformation over the past two years and will be opening for the first time as <i>The Bank Gallery Space</i>. Pressed metal ceilings, wooden floors and other features have been uncovered and are once again visible for the first time in decades.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The public is invited to see the restored octagonal-shaped bank chamber, strong room and manager's office. There will be an exhibition about the history of the building, live painting by North Midlands artist-in-residence <a href="http://www.ditaylor.com.au/gallery">Di Taylor</a>, children's art activities and a display of four large artworks created by schools in Carnamah, Coorow, Perenjori and Three Springs. Rooms at the back of the building, to accommodate an artist-in-residence, will also be open.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Acoustic singer-songwriter Ashlea Reale will be performing on Macpherson Street. Ashlea has helped create a number of unique songs based on stories from Western Australia's history - including one on a character from our neck of the woods!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The state heritage-listed <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/homestead">Macpherson Homestead</a>, which was built in the late 1860s, will be open during the same hours. It is located just one kilometre east of town via a signposted driveway on the Bunjil Road. Originally known as Carnamah House, it was home to the <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/macpherson-family">Macpherson family</a> for 70 years. They established the pastoral station <i>Carnamah</i> and a number of their sons spread northwards with connections to Arrino, Yandanooka, Greenough and the Murchison.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our very own <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/museum">Carnamah Museum</a> will also be open. The older part of our building was constructed in 1926 as a <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/ten-macpherson-street">tearooms</a> but was later used as a branch of the sports betting agency TAB. It has been our museum since 1992 and was substantially extended over 2011 and 2012. We have a diverse collection that explores the agricultural, commercial, social, sporting and domestic past of Carnamah and surrounding districts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Carnamah Post Office & Bush Basket will be open to sell fresh roasted coffees and hot chocolates while the Carnamah Hotel will be open for lunch. Our thanks to both for opening outside of their normal hours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Date - Sunday 30 April 2017</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Time - 10am to 2-30pm</span><br />
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Andrew Bowman-Brighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956365481019827939noreply@blogger.com0Carnamah WA 6517, Australia-29.689 115.88699999999994-30.1303105 115.24155299999994 -29.2476895 116.53244699999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5949001350385496094.post-10711338029744823132016-12-03T16:34:00.000+08:002016-12-13T03:36:51.534+08:00Online Index of 80,153 Early WA Motor Vehicle Registrations<div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Royal Automobile Club (R.A.C.) of Western Australia historically published an annual Year Book & Road Guide. Some of the early editions included lists of every registered motor vehicle in Western Australia. The lists included the owner, their address, the type of vehicle, its license/number plate and the local authority it was registered with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In partnership with the <a href="http://www.northmidlands.org.au/">North Midlands Project</a> we have transcribed, indexed and created a searchable online database of motor vehicle registrations from throughout Western Australia (extracted from the R.A.C. Year Book & Road Guides of 1917-18, 1922-23, 1924-25, 1925-26, 1926-27 and 1927-28). A great many thanks are due to those who worked so hard to transcribe, check and reformat this wealth of information, which can now be searched via the below link...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">10,693 vehicles in 1924-25</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The growth in vehicles during the ten years from 1917-18 to 1927-28 was over 762 percent!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">During this period the most popular make was undoubtedly Ford (28% of all registrations) followed by Chevrolet (12%), Dodge (11%), Overland (7%), Buick (5%), Rugby (3%), Studebaker (3%), Essex (3%), Hupmobile (2%) and then Morris, Fiat, Maxwell and Chrysler (1% each). Other brands, with a less than 1% market share included Reo, Citroen, Austin, Oldsmobile, Willys-Knight, International, Graham, Whippet, Republic, Pontiac, Swift, General Motors Company (G.M.C.), Leyland, Guy and Vauxhall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The index reveals that some people went through a number of vehicles in the space of ten years. For example, F. J. Enhardt of Dowerin didn't own a vehicle in 1917-18 but in 1922-23 he had a 19-horsepower Ford with the number plate <b>D●</b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>11</b>. He retained his plate but by 1924-25 he'd got rid of the Ford and owned a Maxwell. Two years later in 1926-27 he'd changed again and had </span><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">D●</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">11 </span></b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">on a Chrysler.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It may appear that multiple people had the same number plate at the same time. However, this was generally not the case. Some local governments used the same numbering (but on different coloured plates) for private vehicles and those for trade or hire. In other places, such as Narrogin, there was both a road board and a municipal council - the former would include the dot in the middle while the latter contained no dot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sometimes the road board and municipal council would use different letters, but not always! For instance, in 1926-27 the Albany Road Board's plates were <b>A</b> followed by a dot and the Albany Municipal Council also used used <b>A</b> but without a dot - hence both </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>A●21</b> and <b>A 21</b> both existed but were on different vehicles owned by different people!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If anyone wishes to view the digitised R.A.C. Year Book & Road Guides, they can be found and viewed within the catalogue of the </span><a href="https://encore.slwa.wa.gov.au/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2793279" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">State Library of Western Australia</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. Our new index, which can be searched by surname or keyword, can be found via the below link...</span><br />
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Andrew Bowman-Brighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956365481019827939noreply@blogger.com7Western Australia, Australia-27.6728168 121.62830980000001-56.2645173 80.319715800000012 0.91888370000000208 162.9369038tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5949001350385496094.post-35249918244679090432016-11-12T09:31:00.000+08:002016-11-12T09:31:00.639+08:00Carnamah Museum Collection of National Significance<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We're delighted to reveal that we have been awarded a Community Heritage Grant for a significance assessment of our museum collection. One of the great things about this grant is that it means our collection has been deemed to be of national significance.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An additional part of the grant is to send a representative to the National Library of Australia in Canberra, to both officially receive the grant and to undergo training on assessing and caring for museum collections.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pictured above is our beaming representative Shiona Herbert (right) with Hon. Zed Seselja, Assistant Minister for Social Services and Multicultural Affairs, who was representing Senator the Hon. Mitch Fifield, Minister for the Arts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We'd like to extend our congratulations to all of the other grant recipients, which are listed <a href="https://www.nla.gov.au/chg/community-heritage-grants-recipients-2016">here</a>, but would especially like to congratulate a fellow Mid West collection in the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/GreenoughCommunityMuseum/">Greenough Museum & Gardens</a>, who received a grant for a significance assessment of their Maley Archive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.nla.gov.au/awards-and-grants/chg">Community Heritage Grants</a> are funded by the Australian Government through the National Library of Australia, the Ministry for the Arts, the National Archives of Australia, the National Film and Sound Archive and the National Museum of Australia. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our heartfelt thanks to all of the funders, to Andrew Bowman-Bright for managing our project and to Shiona Herbert for flying the Carnamah flag in Canberra!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dr Joanna Sassoon has been appointed to undertake our significance assessment in early 2017.</span></div>
Andrew Bowman-Brighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05956365481019827939noreply@blogger.com0Canberra ACT, Australia-35.3075 149.124417-35.722120499999996 148.47897 -34.8928795 149.76986399999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5949001350385496094.post-65968217456860921602016-11-09T16:04:00.000+08:002017-01-01T19:55:55.419+08:00Virtual Museum: Schools<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today there are primary schools in Coorow, Eneabba and Three Springs and a district high school at Carnamah. However, this hasn't always been the case - another eleven schools previously existed within the same geographical area! A new exhibition within our Virtual Museum takes a look at some of these schools and includes some fantastic photos and objects from our museum...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Back in 2014 we undertook a public poll of 25 potential online exhibitions that could be added to our <a href="http://www.carnamah.com.au/virtual-museum">Virtual Museum: to be known and distinguished as Carnamah</a>. We've kept the results a secret as we always intended to develop both the top voted themes but also those that received the least votes. We'll share which one this was at a later date!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">We'd like to thank the Department of Culture and the Arts (DCA) for supporting this project to share and promote more of our museum collection with the broader community.</span><br />
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