exploring the collection

I've been exploring the objects currently on display at the Historical Society. Among them I found some which brought back fond memories, like this paper doll and her clothes, although she comes from an era half a century earlier than my own childhood paper dolls.


I was fascinated to find this album, which contained something quite unexpected.


Apparently, collecting and pressing seaweed was a popular activity at the turn of the twentieth century, as in this album containing seaweed collected on Rottnest Island.