Historical information

Taken in 1908, depicted is a large group of children and adults dressed in formal attire on a nature study. The group is standing on a granite outcrop listening to a man who is using a large boulder as a podium.

Significance

Nature study was a new subject introduced into the school curriculum throughout the English-speaking world in the 1890s and 1900s that taught students about the natural environment. It was hoped that a concern about the natural environment would be fostered into the school children, who were seen as future citizens of the world, and that they would implement changes to preserve the natural environment when they reached adulthood.

Physical description

Black and white rectangular reproduced photograph (from negatives) printed on matte photographic paper

Inscriptions & markings

Obverse:
AN ADDRESS/
ON NATURE STUDY/

Reverse:
6955 (in pencil)/
©/
DONALD HAYES/
BEECHWORTH (stamped in orange ink)/