• Title
  William Roberts, an original Anzac, and his family evicted from their Redfern home into the street during the Depression
• Creator
  Lethington Maitland
• Call number
  Home and Away - 870
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  28 Sep 1934
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  42879
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 1 glass photonegative
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  For the political background to evictions, see: "Returned Soldiers' League. Fortnightly meeting", Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder, Friday 5 October 1934, p.1. http://trove.nla.gov.au/ (accessed May 21, 2013)
  Reproduced in Sydney Exposures... [by] Alan Davies (1991), p. 56. [Note: place/date incorrect in publication]
  
  Reproduced The Labor Daily, 29/9/1934
  
  Taken as a regular day-to-day news picture for The Labor Daily.
  
  Sydney Exposures exhibition caption: Evicted from home, Redfern, 28 September 1934 : As the depression ground on, chronic unemployment, high interest rates, mortgages and rentals resulted in the eviction of many families from their homes. Without a job for 3 1/2 years, Mr William Roberts, an original Anzac, stands with his wife and two of their three children beside their meagre belongings.
  Digital order no:hood_00870
• Alphanumeric designations
  
  Original item no. DG ON4/870
• Name
  Roberts family
  Roberts, William, active approximately 1915-1934
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  children
  
• Topic
  economic depression
  evictions
  families
  houses
  returned servicepeople
  terrace houses
  
• Place
  Redfern (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Sydney Exposures: the photographic studio of Sam Hood 1925-1950 - State Library of New South Wales (27 December, 1991 - 26 April, 1992)
  Eye 4 photography - State Library of New South Wales (January, 2005 - May, 2005)

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