Photographs of the Perkins family, Morwenstowe Homestead, Wallaga Lake, New South Wales, ca. 1898-ca. 1909 / photographed by a member of the Perkins family

13 albumen silver photographs taken by the Perkins family, in and around the remote Wallaga Lake, Tilba Tilba and Cobargo region of New South Wales, between ca. 1900-ca. 1909. Includes family and group portraits, several views of the family homestead, school groups, farming and land clearing, and various boating activities on the lake, family outings and views of Cobargo and the Tumut River.

All of the images have inscriptions in ink on the verso and 2 have been mounted on card.

[1.] 'Glimpse of the Tumut River'
[2.] 'On the flats, "Morwenstowe"
[3.] 'Long plain. Kiandra 6000 feet above sea level'
[4.] 'The last load of wool (of the season) from the mountains, Tumut'
[5.] 'Clarence ploughing on the farm "Morwenstowe"
[6.] "Morwenstowe" in its earlier days. Here you see the hill in background being cleared. Now it is cleared, as you see in the other photo of home'
[7]. "Morwenstowe"
[8.] 'Schnapper Point, Wallaga Lake'
[9.] 'Our home "Morwenstowe". The water is part of Wallaga Lake'
[10.] 'Return of boating party from Wallaga Lakes, photographed down by water at "Morwenstowe"
[11.] 'Sister Ivy'
[12.] 'Corunna School'. [Portrait of school children at Corunna School showing Ivy as school teacher and non-indigenous and Aboriginal pupils]
[13.] 'The cross roads, Cobargo'

Photographs of the Perkins family, Morwenstowe Homestead, Wallaga Lake, New South Wales, ca. 1898-ca...

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