Historical information

This photograph has been taken looking down Nicholson Street, Orbost. Temple's Store is on the left and the Club Hotel on the right. The township began to take shape about 1885.
(More information from Newsletter August, 2004 Pauline Wilkinson)

Significance

This is a very early pictorial record of early Orbost township.

Physical description

Three copies of a black / white photograph of a main road, unsealed with wooden buildings on both sides.The building on the right side of the photograph has a verandah with several people standing under the awning, There seems to be two or three young children further down on the edge of the road.

Inscriptions & markings

on front at bottom - Orbost Main Street