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 and is of Alice Jenkins sitting in the Bugatti owned by Harry Jenkins, parked at the end of Churchill Road on Phillip Island.

Physical description

black and white photograph with white border showing a woman wearing a headscarf in the passenger's seat of a light coloured Bugatti parked diagonally across the frame with a copse of trees visible in the background.

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

Inscriptions & markings

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