Historical information

This photograph was taken at the junction of the Snowy and Brodribb Rivers.
The Snowy River starts in New South Wales on the slopes of Mt Kosciuszko, Australia’s highest mountain, in New South Wales. It flows into Bass Strait at Marlo in Victoria. The Brodribb River is a tributary of the Snowy which enters the estuary at Marlo.

Significance

This is a pictorial record of a road in Marlo near Orbost in the late 19th-early 20th centuries. It also depicts the transport used at that time.

Physical description

A black / white photograph of four men in suits seated in a horse - drawn buggy on a dirt road alongside a creek or river. There appears to be another horse - drawn vehicle behind them.

Inscriptions & markings

on back - "at the Brodribb - Snowy junction. this road was corduroy (packed logs of tea trees?)