Asettlers’ farm (Australia, 1910), possibly somewhere in the Kanimbla,Megalong or Burragorang
Asettlers’ farm (Australia, 1910), possibly somewhere in the Kanimbla,Megalong or Burragorang Valleys, and near permanent water like theCoxs River.Aman stands in the foreground watching the camera, as a woman in awhite pinafore and a child pose in front of a picket and wire fence. To the left is a building of vertical, split slab and shingle roofconstruction. The house on the rift is made of weatherboard andcorrugated iron; it has three doors beneath the front verandah, withreclining chairs and a small table (with turned cotton-reel legs)among the furniture. Two tents are pitched in the grounds, onepartially beneath a fruit or ornamental tree. Three sapling propsare supporting a long clothesline, and ducks are scurrying past it. There is a burnt rubbish heap with tin cans and broken glass in theforeground. -- source link
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