Two old leather-bound volumes of a book entitled 'The Cyclopedia of Western Australia'
Museum of the Great Southern

An Epitome of Progress
Tuesday Curatorials
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Browsing through the Cyclopedia of Western Australia (1912). 

The first comprehensive summary of WA’s development and progress was edited by Chief Librarian James Battye and painted a rosy picture of the infant colony. But was it all fact or did some fiction creep into this massive work?

Presented by Malcolm Traill, Historian & WA Museum Honorary Research Associate.