Historical information

This photograph shows a group of surveyors setting up at Treasury Camp - April 18 1897. Treasury camp was possibly in the Murrungowar area in East Gippsland.

Significance

This is a pictorial record of a late 19th century bush camp set up by surveyors involved in determining land settlement in East Gippsland.

Physical description

A faded black / white photograph on a black buff card of a group of men and several pack horses standing around a campfire. The camp is in a clearing in dense forest and tents are set up with some bark coverings.
There is a copy with the original.