Historical information

Churchill Island Heritage Farm has a large photographic collection dating from the nineteenth century.

This series showcases photographs taken in the 1930s and 1940s and shows people who lived and worked on the Island during the Jenkins period. This photograph was taken in December 1939.

Physical description

black and white photograph with white border showing a woman seated on a thick plank of wood in front of a barbed wire fence looking to the left of frame.

Digitised from a high resolution copy (original Polaroid is in poor and fragile condition)

Inscriptions & markings

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