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    Pupils of Darwin Public School, c. 1905, courtesy of Northern Territory Library.

Title
Pupils of Darwin Public School with their teacher Catherine Pett
Date
c. 1905
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
Interpretive description

Reynolds' print is cropped compared to both of the Northern Territory Library prints.

External Url
http://hdl.handle.net/10070/13168

Versions

  1. Click to view this catalogue record + digital image
    Title
    Pupils of Darwin Public School
    Description

    Pupils of Darwin Public School. Teacher: Mrs Catherine Pett Back row L-R: Ron (Cheeky) Pett,?. Second row (boys) standing L-R: ? , ? , ? , Felix Spain, ? , ? , ? , ? , ? , Chin Fong. Third row (girls) seated L-R: Maude Brown, Louise Brown(Olga Pott?), ? , ? ,Doris Stretton, Flo and Liz Goodman , ? , ?. Front row (boys) seated L-R: Roy Budgen, Chin Gong, Podencia Spain, Joe Spain, ? , ? .

    Date
    c. 1905
    Type
    catalogue record + digital image
    Control
    17\17541, PH0238/0481
    Source

    Peter Spillett collection, - 1980s, 0238; Northern Territory Library. Details

    Rights
    Reproduction rights owned by the Northern Territory Library.
  2. Published photograph
    Title
    This photo shows the sort of racial mixture that was common in both public and church schools in the northern towns in the early twenieth century. Darwin Public School, 1905
    Date
    1905
    Type
    Published photograph
    Control
    p.156
    Source

    Reynolds, Henry, North of Capricorn: The Untold Story of Australia's North, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, NSW, 2003. Details

    Reproduced from Spillet collection, Northern Territory library

  3. Click to view this catalogue record + digital image
    Title
    Pupils of Darwin Public School.
    Description

    Pupils of Darwin Public School. Teacher: Mrs Olga Pett Back row L-R: Ron (Cheeky) Pett,?. Second row (boys) standing L-R: ? , ? , ? , Felix Spain, ? , ? , ? , ? , ? , Chin Fong. Third row (girls) seated L-R: Maude Brown, Louise Brown , ? , ? , Doris Stretton, Flo and Liz Goodman , ? , ?. Front row (boys) seated L-R: Roy Budgen, Chin Gong, Podencia Spain, Joe Spain, ? , ? .

    Date
    c. 1905
    Type
    catalogue record + digital image
    Control
    19\19133, PH0238/2083
    Source

    Peter Spillett collection, - 1980s, 0238; Northern Territory Library. Details

    Rights
    Reproduction rights owned by the Northern Territory Library.
  4. Published photograph
    Title
    The Territory's first woman public schoolteacher, Catherine Pett (right), with her students outside the Darwin public school in 1905.
    Description

    Catherine served as a teacher in the Territory from 1888 to 1910.

    Date
    1905
    Type
    Published photograph
    Control
    p.72
    Source

    James, Barbara, No Man's Land: Women of the Northern Territory, Collins Publishers Australia, Australia, 1989. Details

    Original photograph held in Spillett collection at the Northern Territory State Reference Library.

  5. Published photograph
    Title
    Darwin Public School, 1905
    Description

    9 of the 27 pupils are Chinese

    Date
    1905
    Type
    Published photograph
    Control
    p.11
    Source

    Giese, Diana, All the Flavour of the Time Returns', Using Oral History to Explore the Top End's Chinese Heritage, Occasional Papers, vol. 45, State Library of the Northern Territory, Darwin, 1994. Details

    Original source: Peter Spillett collection

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Created: 4 October 2004, Last modified: 4 January 2007