Photograph, Mr Yates, Clerk of the Course for the Diamond Creek Racing Club, c.1880

Historical information

Photo from J. Sinclair reproduced on p92 of The Diamond Valley Story by Dianne H. Edwards, Shire of Diamond Valley 1979.
"Mr Yates of Pine Grove, Upper Diamond Creek was the local postmaster, and Clerk of the Course for the Diamond Creek Racing Club in the 1880s. He is dressed for a meeting - the coat was scarlet. When racing ended at Diamond Creek in the 1890s he became Clerk of the Course at the Yarra Glen track."

Physical description

Black and white copy of photo printed on glossy photographic paper 30.5 x 40.5 cm (12 x 16 inch); image size approx. 18.5 x 28 cm

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