Historical information

FRASER STREET 1869

Physical description

PHOTOCOPY OF LITHOGRAPH OF THE PORT PHILLIP GOLD MINING COMPANY'S CLAIM AND THE TOWNSHIP OF CLUNES TAKEN FROM THE ILLUSTRATED AUSTRALIAN NEWS. JUNE 19 1869. THIS PHOTOGRAPH WOULD HAVE BEEN TAKEN PRIOR TO THE FIRES WHICH DESTROYED THE ORIGINAL SHOPS IN FRASER STREET. ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN FROM HILL BEHIND OLD LIBRARY IN TEMPLETON STREET, CLUNES.
.1 BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPH MOUNTED ON CARDBOARD
.2 BLACK AND WHITE PRINT WITH 'LAYING THE VICTORIAN END OF THE TASMANIAN CABLE ON REVERSE
.3 PHOTOCOPY BACKED WITH NEWSPAPER AND PRINT FOR SUPPORT
.4 PHOTOCOPY
.5 PHOTOCOPY MOUNTED ON CARDBOARD
.6 DOCUMENT GIVEN BY HENRY BASSETT, APPEARS TO BE PART OF BROWN ENVELOPE
.7 PHOTOCOPY OF PRINT

Inscriptions & markings

.4 COLAC, VIC AUGUST 8TH 1941. "THIS LITTLE PICTURE PRESENTED TO CLUNES F(REE) L(IBRARY) BY HENRY BASSETT WHO WAS BORN ON CLUNES IN THE SAME YEAR THAT THE ABOVE INSTITUTION WAS ESTABLISHED, AND IS A SON OF THE LATE AZARIAH BASSETT AND NEPHEW OF THE LATE CHRISTOPHER BASSETT WHO WERE BOTH OLD RESIDENTS"
HANDED TO SHIRE BY MRS V MCACRAE 22/5/73