Johnston, Isabella Jane (1891-1976)

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Isabella Johnston (née Miller) was born at Barrhead, Scotland in 1891. She joined her aunt Amelia MacDonald in Perth, Western Australia, in 1910 and became active in the Perth Women's Service Guilds of which her aunt [Amelia MacDonald] was a founder member.

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Australian Women's Register

  1. The West Australian Women's Parliament : history.
    Johnston, Isabel
    [1959]
  2. Looking back 50 years in relation to the establishment of a maternity hospital for women, 1909-1959.
    Johnston, Isabel.
    [1959]
  3. Women justices and the Women Justices' Association of WA : a history of the Womens Justices' Association.
    Johnston, Isabellea, 1891-1976
    [1958]
  4. Women on the warpath : feminist of the first wave
    Davidson, Dianne
    [1997]
    Published: University of Western Australia Press
  5. JS Battye Library of West Australian History, State Library of Western Australia: Johnston, Isabella Jane, 1891-1976 Papers (1909 - 1991)
    Articles; biographical notes on prominent Western Australian women; broadcast talks; calendar; cards; constitutions of Women's Service Guilds (1916, 1924); newspaper cuttings; files; invitations; minutes; shopping lists; programs; reports; scrapbooks; services sheets; issues of "The dawn"; stationery. The material relates mainly to women's issues, and the Women's Service Guilds in particular.
    ACC 3926A.
  6. JS Battye Library of West Australian History, State Library of Western Australia: Isabel Johnston [photograph]
    Handwritten on front of photograph "Isabel Johnston State President 1939-1946" 1 photoprint, mounted : b&w ; 16 x 12 cm. Author Poignant, Axel, 1906-1986.
    007399D

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  1. Isabel Johnston [picture]
    Ruskin Studios
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    At WA State Library
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  2. Amelia MacDonald and family
    [ Photograph : 1995 ]
    At WA State Library
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  3. Isabella Johnston and Amelia MacDonald [picture]
    Ruskin Studio
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  4. Isabel Johnston [picture]
    Poignant, Axel, 1906-1986
    [ Photograph ]
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    At WA State Library
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  5. Ida Swift and Isabel Johnston [picture]
    West Australian Newspapers
    [ Photograph ]
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  6. Isabel Johnston presents her history of King Edward Memorial Hospital to hospital administrator Mr Hutchinson [picture]
    West Australian Newspapers
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  7. Isabel Johnston addresses meeting [picture]
    West Australian Newspapers
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  8. Conducting a session of the West Australian Women's Parliament [picture]
    West Australian Newspapers
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  9. Office bearers of West Australian Women's Parliament at work [picture]
    Ronald H. Armstrong
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  10. Members of the West Australian Women's Parliament [picture]
    West Australian Newspapers
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    Ruskin Studios
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  2. Isabella Johnston and Amelia MacDon...
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    Poignant, Axel,...
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  4. Amelia MacDonald and family
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  1. PROBATE COURT.
    The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) Saturday 22 June 1912 p 6 Article
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  2. GAZETTE NOTICES.
    Kilmore Free Press (Kilmore, Vic. : 1870 - 1954) Thursday 7 July 1887 Edition: MORNING. p 3 Article
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