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#23648 - Gertie with 'Betty Ford'

Resource ID
Location
23648
5820
Title/subtitle
Gertie with 'Betty Ford'
Picture
Gertie with 'Betty Ford'
Format
Photograph
Identifier
Brassey Hotel - Barton; Gertrude Swindell
Physical description
Black & white photograph; 6cm x 9cm
Summary
Gertrude Swindell standing alongside her car known as Betty Ford
Notes
On the back is written "Outside Brassey Oct. 1930". Gertie Swindell (1891-1963) worked as a typist and shorthand writer in Canberra from the first session at Parliament House in 1927 to 1942. A letter from the donor and a timeline for Swindell are in clippings file 'Canberra People - SW'.