Historical information
Bullock Team with load of Wattle Bark in front of Cornish's Victorian Boarding House. Corner of Napier& Victoria Streets. Photograph taken in Napier Street, Stawell c1910.
Inscriptions on the back of the photo state W. Dunn is standing beside the bullock team but records imply that its Jack Williams with his bullock team. Stan Wathem is holding the bike and standing beside the wagon.
Wattle bark was used at Wenl's Bark Mills Stawell. The photograph belongs to Mrs. Dorrie Pickering - loaned for copying.
The boarding house on corner of Victoria & Napier St. Obit. Mrs. Fanny Cornish formerly Manuel nee Bass, Stawell News 20.6.1931.
Physical description
Black & white photograph of a scene depicting a bullock team and wagon loaded with Wattle bark. Stawell. Two men standing near the bullock team, one holding a a long stick, the other on a bike.
The building behind the bullock team is Cornish's Victoria's Boarding House. Also a large double story barn at the back of the wagon, c1910. In the file are two other black and white photographs of the same image.
Inscriptions & markings
c1910. Napier St. Corner of Napier & Victoria Streets
Stan Wathem (Bike)
W. Dunn with team loaded with Wattle bark.
Jack Williams?
There is a stamp on the photograph board, but hard to read "A. __Ewin Photographer Tals__melb"
