Oral History of Work in Australia

Mr & Mrs Bartlett, St Helens Vic. 1969

INTERVIEW: Mr & Mrs Bartlett – 1969

 

PLACE: St Helens, Victoria 

 

NOTES: Tom Bartlett is the grandson of successful Western District selectors, and told stories about the goldfields. His wife sang a fragment of ‘The Gum Tree Canoe’ and told of her great grandmother’s death in childbirth on Ballarat at the time of Eureka. 

 

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LOWENSTEIN FAMILY COLLECTION

NATIONAL LIBRARY AUSTRALIA ORAL HISTORY

STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA ORAL HISTORY

 

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