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Newspaper (item) - Newspaper photograph, The Sun News-Pictorial, MILL WORKERS CUT OFF BY FLAMES SURVIVE NIGHT OF TERROR, 1939

  • A photocopy of a newspaper photograph taken after the 1939 Black Friday bushfires destroyed the Anderson's No. 1 Mill near Marysville. The women and children were sent to Marysville for safety and 32 men were trapped at the mine. All survived and this photograph is of the reunion.

    MILL WORKERS CUT OFF BY FLAMES SURVIVE NIGHT OF TERROR

Historical information

A photocopy of a newspaper photograph taken after the 1939 Black Friday bushfires destroyed the Anderson's No. 1 Mill near Marysville. The women and children were sent to Marysville for safety and 32 men were trapped at the mine. All survived and this photograph is of the reunion.

Significance

A photocopy of a newspaper photograph taken after the 1939 Black Friday bushfires destroyed the Anderson's No. 1 Mill near Marysville.

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