Hicks shop Hannan St., J.A..Hicks and Coy Ltd. J A Hicks, the founder of the extensive business at Kalgoorlie of which he was Chairman of Directors, had been commercially identifies with the Eastern Goldfields for well over thirty years having in the first instance purchased the general business of Messrs. Shearch and Mapson when railway communication was fitst established. Every member of the hicks family (12) were shareholders with a direct interest in the company business As well as a large drapery, clothing and manchester trade. The firm added the business of manufacturers and complete house furnishers. They employed a large staff in their factories where all classes ofwood and upholstered furniture, car hoods, gemeral upholstering and bedding was made. Prices competed with the coast.
Family group portrait of father seated wearing three piece suit and hat, mother seated wearing long dress, young woman standing wearing knee length dress, young man standing wearing three piece suit, boy standing wearing shorts and jacket, girl standing wearing short dress, holding doll, in front of house. (Ryan)
Childrens party - group of children seated round tables wearing party dress and hats, inside a house, streamers and decorations hanging in room. (Smart)
Three people on verandah having tea - North Kalgoorlie School Staff house. Cane chairs, wooden table laid with lace cloth, flowers in vase, pot plants hanging and on floor.
Headmaster Shore with newspaper, lady pouring from silver tea-pot.
Exterior of house, 1 story, verandahs around, corrugated iron roof, brick chimney, garden fenced, tidy dirt footpath, tarred street with cement gutter, tree in footpath, other homes next door.
Exterior of house in suburban street, verandahs round, corrugated iron roof, open paling fence,hinged tall wire gate, well grown native trees in garden, taken fron road, other homes next door.