a. Household Items. Includes furniture, cutlery, crockery, washboard, babies bottles, soap?, Peters cake decoration. (66 items) See H89/396 for similar items. The two blue chairs appear to have originally come from the game 'Little Homemaker' accessioned at this number. b. Outdoor household items. Includes spades, buckets, watering can, ladder, swimming pool, dog in kennel. (25 items) c. Transport Items. Includes horse float, train carriages, boat on trailer, convertible car pencil sharpener. (12 items) d. Cowboys and Indians. Includes man on horse, Sheriffs badge. Several of the Indians are in the same pose. May be Weeties gifts. (20 items) e. Soldiers and weapons of war. Includes water pistol, canons, soldiers. (9 items) f. Animals. Includes ram, dog, duck, and three animal cards. These are entitled 'DISCOVER AUSTRALIA WITH SHELL' and they are No. 16 Tasmanian Devil, No. 17 The banded anteater, and No. 80 Spirobranchus Giganteus (Coral Worm). (19 items) g. Entertainment items. Includes circus performers, mouth organ, pipe, binoculars with pictures in each lens and marbles. (14 items) h. Jewellery. Five rings, two watches, and a small tube full of flower petals. (8 items) The toys were used by Miss Frances Rogers. Miss Rogers, born on 19 Oct 1904, went to Teacher's College in 1930 and joined the Education Department of W.A. in 1934. Between 1934 and her retirement in 1967, she taught at various country schools, took special classes for deaf and dumb children in Mosman Park, and classes for mentally and physically disabled children in Leederville. She also made and purchased a large collection of puppets which were used as teaching aids. These are accessioned under numbers H88/613 to H89/307 (not inclusive).
Department:
History DepartmentCollection
History Collection
Collection Item Data
| Accession Number: | H1989.385 |
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| Accession Date: | 11 May 1989 |
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Material
| Wood/Wood | Plastic, glass, metal, wood, wax, paper.
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| Plastic/Synthetic/Polymer |
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Measurement
| width | 30mm | (per toy approximately) |
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