Auntie Kitty And The Snapshots Contest...(1930).
One of the subjects I love to research and write about is children, in particular, what they thought, said and did in the early years of Western Australia. This post is a continuation from the previous post "Auntie Kitty And The Children Of Subiaco 1930" and about how children recorded their daily rhythms of life in the city and country Western Australia through photographs for a contest.
From the previous post... "...During the early years the children of Western Australia and Subiaco wrote letters to children's pages in the local newspapers, not only to the Daily News newspaper but other newspapers such as The Sunday Times and the WA Catholic Record.
The children asked to become members of clubs the newspapers formed, entered competitions to win prizes, wrote letters, shared their creative work and aspects of themselves and their lives as children growing up in suburbs such as Subiaco and country Western Australia.
The local Western Australian newspaper, The Sunday Times children's page was edited by Auntie Kitty. The page contained letters from children who shared aspects of their lives. While the letters were acknowledged, not all of them were published and there do not seem to be any responses from Auntie Kitty. The page also included competitions, children's creative work, and a range of activities and stories and poems the editor thought children may like to do in their free time and a cookery corner. The children's birthdays were acknowledged and published on the page by Auntie Kitty.
Throughout 1930 and 1931 The Sunday Times newspaper ran a competition which encouraged children to take photographs and send them into the paper for publication. The photographs published provide a wonderful insight into the lives of children by children. The information provided insisted the photographs be taken by children. The results were published monthly. This competition is the subject of the next post.
"...Would you like to win a camera? Can you take good snapshots? If you can. enter for our Snapshot Contest, which will be held monthly. We are offering a fine CAMERA for the best snap sent in and a very useful WRITER'S COMPANION tor the next best snap. See what you can do. Snap your friends or your pets, and see if you can win one of these lovely cameras. Remember, you must take the snap yourself and you must write your full name and address on the back. Also write on the back of the snap the name or names of the people or pets snapped. Snaps must be addressed to Auntie Kitty "The Sunday Times." Perth, and the words "Snapshot Contest" written on the envelope. Snaps must reach the office by Monday.. and will he judged on the following day. We reserve the right to publish any snap entered..."
Sunday Times, 30 March 1930.
"...KEVIN MILNE, KENT-STREET, BUSSELTON.."
"...Nancy Orr, 48 Pearse-street, Cottesloe..."
"...HON WRIGHT, 48 Duke-street, East Fremantle..."
"...Lorna Sampson, 13 Fermoy-street, Northam..."
JUNE ELIZABETH GOES SHOPPING.
Sunday Times, 2 November 1930.
