Postcards

Postcard from a coloured photograph of the Bathurst Lighthouse sent in 1916 asking the recipient in Mount Lawley if she would kindly join a party that was leaving for Rottnest on a yacht - just the usual crowd!

Postcard showing Garden Lake in the background and the a group of visitors viewing vegetable gardens of the Boys Reformatory in the foreground. Garden Lake was named after the vegetable gardens. The card was sent with a New Year’s greeting to Guildford W.A.

A hand-coloured black and white photo postcard showing visitors arriving on the island 1908 with the Governor's House in the background.

Sent from a Rottnest in March 2006 this letter travelled the world to Lucerne and then Therwil in Switzerland before finding its way to Ipswich in the UK where it reunited with its sender.

Illustrated envelope showing a beach scene postmarked Rottnest October 1974.

Postcard sent from Rottnest to Lawrence, Kansas USA November 1925.

Postcard from hand-painted black and white photograph sent from Rottnest to the sender’s friend in France.