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Postcard (item) - Black and white postcard, Valentine Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd, CAMBARVILLE TOWNSHIP, NEAR MARYSVILLE, 1923-1963

  • An early black and white postcard of the township of Cambarville near Marysville in Victoria. Cambarville was established as a timber mill town in the 1940s. Timber mill owners A. Cameron and F.J. Barton named Cambarville. They established the mill to salvage timber from trees destroyed in the 1939 bushfires. Cambarville was impacted by the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires and any remaining structures were destroyed. This postcard was produced by Valentine's Publishing Co as a souvenir of Marysville. On the reverse of the postcard is a space to write a message and an address and to place a postage stamp. The postcard is unused.

    CAMBARVILLE TOWNSHIP, NEAR MARYSVILLE.

  • CAMBARVILLE TOWNSHIP, NEAR MARYSVILLE.

  • An early black and white postcard of the township of Cambarville near Marysville in Victoria. Cambarville was established as a timber mill town in the 1940s. Timber mill owners A. Cameron and F.J. Barton named Cambarville. They established the mill to salvage timber from trees destroyed in the 1939 bushfires. Cambarville was impacted by the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires and any remaining structures were destroyed. This postcard was produced by Valentine's Publishing Co as a souvenir of Marysville. On the reverse of the postcard is a space to write a message and an address and to place a postage stamp. The postcard is unused.

Historical information

An early black and white postcard of the township of Cambarville near Marysville in Victoria. Cambarville was established as a timber mill town in the 1940s. Timber mill owners A. Cameron and F.J. Barton named Cambarville. They established the mill to salvage timber from trees destroyed in the 1939 bushfires. Cambarville was impacted by the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires and any remaining structures were destroyed. This postcard was produced by Valentine's Publishing Co as a souvenir of Marysville.

Significance

An early black and white postcard of the township of Camberville near Marysville in Victoria.

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