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42879
  • Title
    William Roberts, an original Anzac, and his family evicted from their Redfern home into the street during the Depression
  • Creator
  • Call number
    Home and Away - 870
  • Level of description
    item
  • Date

    28 Sep 1934
  • Type of material
  • 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
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    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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