Description of Content
School boys and their teacher posed under a pine tree with carpentary tools and folding chairs made for the Red Cross during World War I. There is a chalked sign in front of the group reading 'Betley Sloyde class', clearly a reference to the Sloyd (Slöjd) educational method for teaching woodworking and handicrafts that was started by Uno Cygnaeus in Finland in 1865 and was popular in Victoria during the early 20th century. Betley was a small mining and later farming community in central Victoria near Maryborough.
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Collection Names
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Collecting Areas
Images & Image Making, Public Life & Institutions, Working Life & Trades
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Acquisition Information
Copied from Roy Hands, 20 Jun 1988
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Place & Date Depicted
Betley State School, Betley, Central, Victoria, Australia, circa 1915
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Format
Negative, 35 mm, Black & White
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Keywords
Cabinetmakers, Carpenters, Fundraising, Picket Fences, Schools, Students, Teachers, Tools, Wars & Conflicts, World War I, 1914-1918
