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PHOTOGRAPH: HUMES WORK YARD, MELBOURNE

c. 1920 - 1929
Overview

div>1999.252.1 PHOTOGRAPH: HUMES WORK YARD, MELBOURNE B&W photographs. A) Long open shed. Roof is held up by wooden poles. On left wooden trolley with pipes on track set below ground level. B) A different view of the workshop. Left foreground wooden tracks for trolley. Man on right in open necked shirt, trousers and hat, cigarette in mouth. Copy of black and white photographs of works yard of Humes, Melbourne. A) Black and white photograph showing long shed, roof but no walls just rough wood poles. Various men working. On left, wooden trolley with pipes on it on track in lowered trough of ground. This is the Melbourne works. B) Black and white photograph of a different view of the workshop in Melbourne. View of left foreground of wooden tracks for a small railway. Man on right, shirt (open necked), trousers and hat, with cigarette in mouth.

Historical information

These photographs collected for 'Subiaco Industry' exhibition at the Museum 1998. Photographs collected from Humes, Subiaco, now at Welshpool and owned by CSR. Humes one of many industries which moved, or closed prior to Subi Centro development.

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Registration number
cwa-org-43-1999.252.2
Item type
Width
255 mm
Height or length
203 mm
Statement of significance

Historical significance. Humes Melbourne work yard 1920s

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