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Interview with Madge Parker [sound recording] Interviewer: Yvonne Abbott

Item Title
Interview with Madge Parker [sound recording] Interviewer: Yvonne Abbott
Repository
State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana
Reference
SRG 438/29/49
Date Range
8 August 1995
Description

Adelaide Lyceum Club Oral History

Madge Parker was born on the Yorke Peninsula and lived near Ardrossan. Her father grew wheat, barley and oats. They moved to Adelaide when her father retired and Madge was 16. She went to London in 1939 to do a course in cosmetics and came home via America. She worked in cosmetics in Sydney and then joined the WAAFS where she completed an officers course.

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  • Adelaide Lyceum Club, 1922 - 2000, SRG 438; Lyceum Club (Adelaide) Incorporated (1922 - ); State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana. Details

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