The Beechworth Burke Museum
Photograph - Postcard, c1900
... S.S. Jam Factory... to a Melbourne company, who traded as S.S. Jam Co./S.S. Jam Factory until.... Jam Co./S.S. Jam Factory until around 1915. Jam Jam Factory ...
In 1906, the Anglo-Australian Brewery Company had purchased the Spring Creek brewery after the death of Frederick Allen. A.A. Billson, M.L.A., by then a director of Anglo-Australian Brewery, then converted the premises into a jam and fruit preserving works. The Beechworth District Jam, Pickle and Fruit Preserving Company Ltd started fruit preserving in 1907. In 1912, the jam works was sold to a Melbourne company, who traded as S.S. Jam Co./S.S. Jam Factory until around 1915.
Three rectangular photographs - one sepia postcard and two black and white copies printed on paper3121.1 (reverse):
Post Card /
Correspondence. [vertical centre-line] Address only. / [stamp placement of rectangular "Kodak.Austral." wordmarks]
Employees Beechworth / Jam Factory / about 1900 /
84-213-1 / 3121.1 / 97 2326 / 10 /
Factories /
3121.2 (reverse):
Employee's / Beechworth Jam Factory / (previously Allens Brewery) / early 1900s /
84-213-1 (Repro) / 3121.2 / Factories / [yellow sticky-note: factories] /
3121.3 (reverse):
SS Jam Factory / B'worth Jam Factory / Railway Avenue / B'worth /
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