Call Number |
BA1059/888 |
Physical description |
1 negative : nitrate, b&w ; 15 x 9 cm. |
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1 photographic print : b&w. |
Series |
Izzy Orloff collection ; BA1059/888
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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. |
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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.
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Hainey, Kate -- Photographs.
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Hainey, Catherine Mary, 1883?-1932 -- Photographs.
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Newspaper vendors -- Western Australia -- Fremantle -- Photographs.
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Women -- Western Australia -- Fremantle -- Photographs.
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Dogs -- Western Australia -- Photographs.
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People with disabilities -- Western Australia -- Photographs.
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Market street (Fremantle, W.A.) -- Photographs.
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Fremantle (W.A.) -- Photographs.
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Online image.
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Related names |
HRRC
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