Preface -- Setting out -- Setting up -- Settling down -- Life at Alpha Cottage -- The convicts are coming -- Legal niceties -- Friends & foes -- Catholic controversy -- Window into the past -- Towers & spires -- Flemish bond -- Speaking of families -- Gracious living -- Bricks, banks & jetties -- After Alfred
Summary
This beautifully illustrated book is the history of pre-Gold Rush Perth through the eyes of pioneer lawyer and photographer Alfred Hawes Stone. Court and Camera is a unique glimpse of Perth just three decades after its foundation. Its unparalleled images show the emergence of landmark buildings alongside ordinary dwellings and scenes from everyday life
