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Title: Aboriginal family around Fremantle c1870s
Imprint: Fremantle, c1870
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Summary: W.P. Clifton was an early pioneer of the Bunbury district, and made frequent trips to Fremantle for business dealings. On one of those trips he took this photograph of an Aboriginal man, woman, and child, labelled 'Family portrait, residents of Fremantle', and dated between 1860-1880. No further information exists on the image.
Subject: Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Cockburn Region (W.A.)
Aboriginal family around Fremantle c1870s

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