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Main Title: Camp kiddies : a story of life on railway construction / by Lillian M. Pyke.
Author: Pyke, Lillian M. (Lillian Maxwell), 1881-1927
Imprint: The Specialty Press, [between 1893 and 1919].
Collation: 208 pages, [16] leaves of plates : illustrations, hardback ; 19 cm.
Summary: Specifically aimed for children (though, still appreciated by adults), Camp Kiddies is a beautiful look into Australia’s early railway system.

Pyke’s husband, Richard Diamond Pyke, was a railways engineer, and using her personal knowledge and experiences from this, she delivers an almost-memoir, illustrated with original family photographs, to depict life at the Queensland railway construction camps.
Subject: Biography
Railway employees
Country life.
Children and childhood
Poets and poetry
Juvenile literature
Australian fiction
Result Collection Location Shelf No Status Notes
Non-Fiction Stacks 820 PYK.L Available