Motoring holiday from Sydney to the South Coast, NSW, 1918 [photograph album]

PXA 849

fonds

28 Feb - 9 Mar, 1918

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Watercolours

403411

1 album (53 photographic prints) - 21.5 x 30 cm.
1 watercolour - 23 x 14 cm.

Itinerary and snapshots chiefly of a car and passengers at various locations including: Kangaroo Valley, Batemans Bay, Cobargo, The Hostel (Kameruka), Hop beer (small building, Wolumla), Eden, Boydtown, Cooma, Hotel Kosciusko, Mount Kosciusko and Kiandra.
Unsigned small oval watercolour drawing of a waterfall.

Photographs removed from album due to looseness of mounts
The album was part of the Estate of Laurence Harrison -- Information from donor, Apr 1998
The Hostel (Kameruka Estate) was built in 1915. During 1918-19 it was used as a hospital for patients returning from Europe and the Great War with the deadly flu virus. The building was demolished in 1927. -- Reference: Kameruka / Vicky Small. [Bega, N.S.W.] : Kameruka Estates, 1989. (pp.53-7). Location number: Q994.47/35 Mitchell Library