Physical description
Set of digital copies of photos from the Breen family archive.
Set of digital copies of photos from the Breen family archive.
Black and White photograph showing 3 men who have been cutting hay. Handwritten in white on the lower edge of the photo is: 'Breen Bros cutting hay 3 ton to the acre with a Deering at Holly Hill, Ferny Creek, 15-1-16.' and '85.' Photo shows a 3 horse team harnessed to a wagon. A man sits on hay on the wagon. He is loosely holding a whip. Beside him are a man and a boy who stand between sheaves of hay. All three are wearing trousers, waistcoats and shirts with sleeves rolled up. The men are wearing hats and the boy is wearing a flat cap. Where they are standing there is hay stubble. Beyond the horse team the crop is still standing 3 trees are in the background. They appear to be dead.
'Breen Bros cutting hay 3 ton to the acre with a Deering at Holly Hill, Ferny Creek, 15-1-16.' and '85' are written in white on the original photo.
B&W photo showing Smoko at Avards property, Emerald, Victoria. A group of four mensitting in a paddock, drinking tea and smoking. They are in shirtsleeves and are wearing hats. Left to right: Ron Asling, George Avard, Albert Jeffery, and Tom Breen.
B&W photo of the Breen family at home in Menzies Creek. The family group comprises an older man in a three-piece suit, who has white hair and moustache, three women standing in a doorway to a lattice-covered verandah, are younger man identified as Ted Breen (right hand side), and two small boys. The Group stands in front of a weatherboard and fibro-cement house.
B&W photo showing Tom Breen with two other men (unidentified) beside the root ball of a large tree. Tom Breen is perched on the root ball. They are all dressed in casual work clothes and have a shovel, pickaxe and other tools.
Aerial view of Cotswold Valley, Menzies Creek. B&W photos taken from light plane. Paddocks and treed areas are visible. Two houses are in the centre of the photo, presumably the Breen farmhouse on Jacksons Hill Road. The tip of the plane's left wing is also visible.
B&W photo showing Jack Breen and a horse. They are standing in long grass with bushes in the background. Jack is wearing dark jodhpurs, a check shirt, a pale jacket with dark sleeves, and a hat. The horse is dark with a white face.
B&W photo of Ethel Breen nee Prince. Ethel stands near a wire fence with paddocks behind her. She is wearing a linen suit, short-sleeved and belted. Her hair is ear-length and she is looking off to the left side of the photo.
B&W photo showing the Cotswold Valley, Menzies Creek. It shows fenced paddocks, trees and hedges dotted around. A tall treefern in the foreground. A wooded hill in the background.