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Captain Pearl Hogg at the wheel of P.S. Kookaburra
Title : Captain Pearl Hogg at the wheel of P.S. Kookaburra Captain Pearl Hogg at the wheel of P.S. Kookaburra
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Date of creation : ca. 1950
Format : Photograph
Dimensions : 150 x 105 mm
Contributor : State Library of South Australia
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Description :

Close up of Captain Pearl Hogg at the wheel of P.S. Kookaburra.


Pearl was Australia's first female boat captain.

Subjects
Related names :

Hogg, Pearl

Wallace, Pearl, 1911-

Period : 1946-1979
Region : Riverland and Murraylands
Further reading :

McInerney, Graham. 'Skipper Pearl Wallace's life on the rivers runs like a novel', The Advertiser, 1 September 1987, p. 2

Wallace, Pearl. A river woman: Australia's first female riverboat captain tells her story,Lismore, NSW: Southern Cross University Press, 2001


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