• Title
  Photographs of the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Areas in the Leeton-Griffith Area, 1912-1913
• Call number
  PXB 139
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1912-1913
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  877600
• Physical Description
  55 photographs - sepia - 9 cm x 14.2 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  For further information see: 'Yanco Pioneers. How they live at Leeton', Sydney Morning Herald, 28 September 1912
• Scope and Content
  The numbers in parentheses refer to the original photograph numbers printed at lower right.
  1. Single Officers’ Quarters, Leeton (1)
  2. Officers’ Quarters, Leeton, N.S.W. (2)
  3. Residence 1912 at Yanco, N.S.W. (3)
  4. A Billabong, Yanco, N.S.W. (6)
  5. Main Street, Yanco. (7)
  6. Typical Tent dwellings, Yanco, N.S.W. (8)
  7. Trust Offices, Leeton (13)
  8. Typical Tents, Leeton (14)
  9. Part of Main Street “Crusher” Camp, Leeton (15)
  10. First Bakery, Leeton 1912 (21)
  11. Damage to tent, caused by duststorm, Yanco, N.S.W. 21.12.12 (26)
  12. Part of “Crusher” Camp, Leeton (34)
  13. Part of “Crusher” Camp, Leeton (35)
  14. Residence of Sir Samuel McCaughey (39)
  15. “Crusher” Camp, Leeton (40)
  16. Main Street, “Crusher” Camp, Leeton (42)
  17. Accommodation House, Leeton, N.S.W. (43)
  18. Main Street, “Crusher” Camp, Leeton, N.S.W. (44)
  19. Mills, Yanco, N.S.W., Main Branch Canal in foreground (49)
  20. [Interior of tent at Yanco, showing residents] (62)
  21. Staff Surveyer J. H. Hunt’s Camp, Leeton, N.S.W. 12.12.12. (79)
  22. Yanco Siding (85)
  23. Irrigation Canal, Yanco, N.S.W. 1912
  24. On the Murrumbidgee River at Yanco, N.S.W.
  25. [Clark Bros General Merchants Store, Established 1911]
  26. [Residents outside their tent]
  27. Murrumbidgee River at Yanco, N.S.W.
  28. Steam Plough at work, Leeton 1913
  29. Butter Factory, Leeton 1913
  30. [Public building, possibly at Leeton, established 1913]
  31. Concrete structure, Leeton 1913 [irrigation channel]
  32. Hospital, Leeton 1913
  33. Interior of Tent, Yanco, N.S.W. 1912
  34. Supervising Engineer & Drafting Office Staff, Yanco 1912
  35. East St, Narrandera
  36. [Tea Rooms]
  37. Making sun-dried bricks, Yanco 1913
  38. A few Settlers’ Houses, Leeton, N.S.W.
  39. [Tent residence, possibly at Leeton]
  40. Part of “Crusher” Camp, Leeton, N.S.W.
  41. [Clark Bros General Store]
  42. [Group of workers]
  43. M’bidgee Rr near Leeton 1913
  44. Kurrajong Avenue, Leeton 1913
  45. [Two workers outside their tent]
  46. [Street view, possibly Kurrajong Avenue at Leeton]
  47. Irrigation Canal, Yanco, N.S.W. 1912
  48. [Picnic group at river’s edge, possibly the Murrumbidgee River]
  49. Pine Avenue, Leeton 1913
  50. A Country Circus, Leeton, N.S.W. 1913
  51. [Group seated on horse drawn cart]
  52. [Administrative headquarters of Murrumbidgee Irrigation Trust, Leeton - identified from Photographs collected by Rev. James Colwell portraying rural and agricultural scenes and activities PXB 310/249]
  53. [Group of men, possibly playing two-up]
  54. Leeton residents in 1912
  55. [Water tower, Leeton, one of two designed by Walter Burley Griffin]
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from pictures card catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2009-2010
  
  Listed by Ann Peck, for the practical component of the Master of Information Studies course, Charles Sturt University, February 2012
• General note
  
  Identification of untitled photographs:
  30. ‘Enterprise’? later Globe Theatre, Kurrajong Ave, Leeton – indoor and outdoor picture theatre and skating rink, possibly closed
  36. ‘Tango Joe’s’, ‘Bagtown’, Griffith
  46. Kurrajong Ave, Leeton, showing O.G. Washington hairdresser and fruiterer and Globe Theatre
  52. Also residence of Commissioner Wade, later Allanbrook Hospital, now site of Soldiers Club
  Source: Mitchell Library reader Dorothy Eurell, 1991
  Digital order no:Album ID : 976999
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Thirty-nine photographs are titled on the front. One is titled in pencil on the verso.
• Date note
  
  Seventeen of the photographs are dated.
• Subject
  Irrigation--New South Wales.
  
• Topic
  camps
  rivers
  towns
  
• Place
  Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area (N.S.W.)
  Leeton (N.S.W.)
  Griffith (N.S.W.)
  Yanco (N.S.W.)
  Murrumbidgee River (N.S.W. and A.C.T.)
  East Street (Narrandera, N.S.W.)
  
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