Historical information

Churchill Island Heritage Farm has a large photograph collection dating from the nineteenth century to the present.

Physical description

Black and white photograph of two men loading hessian sacks onto a furled sailboat. Ted Jenkins sits in the boat while Arthur Evans carries the sack.

Inscriptions & markings

Catalogue number written in pencil on the reverse. Handwritten on reverse in pen '1941 Loading superphosphate on the Phillip Island side of the crossing - at the end of Churchill Island road. The "big" boat. Ted Jenkins with his back to camera. MYSELF (ARTHUR EVANS) doing the loading (The bags were wheeled up the plank on a wheelbarrow) see other photo'