Glass plate negative of 'Bullock waggon with timber at Hartneys', 1908

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Type: Glass plate negatives, Negatives
Date: 1908
Materials: Glass, Photographic emulsion
Collection: Robert Orlando Cowey collection
Accession number: 2013.0062.0019.007

Description

A photographic glass plate negative showing a wooden cart with two wheels carrying a pile of long wooden planks. On top of the wood on the cart stands a young boy, and next to the cart a man is unloading the planks on to the ground. Behind the cart, another man stands next to a group of cows.

About the collection

The collection consists of one folding dry plate Ensign (Houghton Ltd) Camera, in its carry case with accessories, a book, 'The Australian Photographic Instructor', and 203 glass plate negatives in their original boxes, as well as 30 early twentieth century prints, owned, used and created by Robert Orlando Cowey. The collection is in good condition. Robert Orlando Cowey’s camera and plates have historical significance, as a record of the everyday lives of small-scale farmers in the Dandenongs area and as a suite of photographs that capture a young man’s impressions of his life during the early 1900s. The collection is evidence of the increasingly widespread use of cameras and dry plate technology by rural Australians at the beginning of the twentieth century.

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