Historical information

This photograph is of a cutting on a road at Bete Bolong known as Hofen's Cutting. This photograph was taken c. 1906 when transport was by horse, wagon and prior to cars and railways.

Significance

This is a pictorial record of early Bete Bolong showing a road through a cutting which was known as Hofen's cutting.

Physical description

Two black / white photographs showing a dirt road heading down a cutting with a post and rail wooden fence on the left side in the background.
In 958.1 there is a cut - away hillside beside the dirt road.

Inscriptions & markings

on back - "Newmerella" (note: this location is at Bete Bolong and not on Newmerella Hill)
958.1 - on back - "Hofen's Bluff 1906"