Section of Perth, Western Australia
Publisher
Commonwealth Immigration Office
Printer
Valentine & Sons Publishing Company Limited
(Scottish, 1900 - 1963)
Date1925
Object number00003373
NamePostcard
MediumPhotographic print on paper.
DimensionsOverall: 137 mm
ClassificationsPosters and postcards
Credit LineANMM Collection
Purchased with USA Bicentennial Gift funds
DescriptionThis postcard showing a view of Perth, Western Australia was produced by the Australian government for the visiting United States Navy's Pacific fleet in 1925.
The reverse is inscribed, 'Issued by the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia to the Officers and Men of the American Fleet, July-August, 1925'.SignificanceThis postcard is significant as a souvenir of the 1925 goodwill cruise of the United States Pacific Fleet to Australia, which renewed the Australian-American alliance established by the Great White Fleet visit in 1908. The 1925 visit contributes to a long history of US Naval visits to Australian ports starting with the US Exploring Expedition in 1839-1840, followed by the 1908 visit of the Great White Fleet and later visits in the 1940s in the lead-up to World War II.
Governments of the Commonwealth and Victoria
1925
Governments of the Commonwealth and Victoria
1925
Queensland Government, Immigration Office
25 April 1883
Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Immigration
8 December 1951
Queensland Government, Immigration Office
8 August 1884
