| Call Number |
OH4138 |
| Physical description |
1 online resource (3 audio files (1 hr., 18 min., 32 sec.)) : digital, WAV |
| Series |
University of Western Australia Archives oral history project |
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University of Western Australia Archives oral history project
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| Notes |
Title devised by cataloguer. |
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This sound recording has been preserved and made available by the University of Western Australia. |
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Digital preservation in WAV format. |
| Access advisory |
Access open. |
| Summary |
Marjorie Tarling talks about her early schooling including residential days at the Claremont Teachers Training College, fellow students and teachers. She talks about having to apply for special exit leave to go out for Sunday services and theatres. |
| Additional formats |
Audio cassette tapes also available at the University of Western Australia Archives. |
| Original version |
Original version: 2 audio cassettes University of Western Australia Archives OH15. |
| Additional formats |
Audio cassette tapes also available at the University of Western Australia Archives. |
| Rights advisory |
Copyright or other restrictions may apply. For public use, contact the State Library of Western Australia. |
| Biography/history |
Marjorie M. Hetherington, nee Marjorie Mabel Tarling, was born in King's Norton, Worcestershire, England in 1904. She was an artist (painter) who arrived in Western Australia in 1911. Marj Tarling studied art at Claremont Teachers Training College and took instructions from instructors at UWA's fine art classes around 1929-1930. She also taught in Kalgoorlie. After her marriage to John Hetherington in the 1940s, she taught at the Presbyterian Ladies College. She exhibited with the Perth Society of Artists in the 1940s and 1950s. She was given a review exhibition at the Undercroft Gallery at University of Western Australia in 1986. [Extracted from Dorothy Erickson's notes written in 2010 and updated in 2011 on the Design & Art Australia Online]. [Date of birth taken from the Trustees of Free UK Genealogy database, date of death taken from Metropolitan Cemetries Board database] |
| Subjects |
Hetherington, Marjorie, -- Interviews.
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Claremont Teachers College -- History.
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Universities and colleges -- Western Australia -- History.
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Women artists -- Western Australia -- Interviews.
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Art -- Study and teaching -- Western Australia.
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| Related names |
Shervington, Christine, 1951- interviewer.
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