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Author Orloff, Izzy, 1891-1981.
Title Paper lady, Katie, with dog [picture]
Published/Produced 1923.

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Call Number BA1059/888
Physical description 1 negative : nitrate, b&w ; 15 x 9 cm.
1 photographic print : b&w.
Series Izzy Orloff collection ; BA1059/888
Notes This image has been preserved and made available by the Historical Records Rescue Consortium Project supported by Lotterywest.
Rights advisory This image is for personal use only. To publish or display it, contact the State Library of Western Australia.
Publications Photograph published in: A Place of Consequence : a pictorial history of Fremantle by R. Reece and R. Pascoe (1983), p. 152, with the caption "Blind Kate, Market Street, 1920". According to this publication: 'One of Fremantle's most familiar figures between the wars was Blind Kate who sold newspapers on the corner of High and Market Streets'.
Notes Listed in photographer's album F dated 1923.
Title from photographer's listing.
Summary Newspaper seller Kate Hainey was partially blind and worked on the streets of Fremantle. She retired in 1926 and there is a small item describing her and her work in the Sunday Times 11 April 1926, p.7.
Subjects Blind Kate -- Photographs.
Hainey, Kate -- Photographs.
Hainey, Catherine Mary, 1883?-1932 -- Photographs.
Newspaper vendors -- Western Australia -- Fremantle -- Photographs.
Women -- Western Australia -- Fremantle -- Photographs.
Dogs -- Western Australia -- Photographs.
People with disabilities -- Western Australia -- Photographs.
Market street (Fremantle, W.A.) -- Photographs.
Fremantle (W.A.) -- Photographs.
Online image.
Related names HRRC