Albury and environs and construction of Hume Weir Reservoir, ca.1917-1935 / photograph album compiled by G. S. Read, with notes by E. J. McBarron

PXA 1630

fonds

ca.1917-1935

Graphic Materials, Photographs

908849

1 album (96 photographs)

G. S. Read was the Albury Council engineer from 1911 to 1938 and a keen amateur photographer. Source: Notes by E. J. McBarron, March 1982

The donor was Inspector of Stock for the Albury Pasture & Protection Board from October 1947 to January 1953. He and his wife shared a house with the widow of G. S. Read in Albury. He salvaged this album from the house after the death of Mrs Read in 1949. Source: Notes by E. J. McBarron, March 1982

Included with the album is a photocopy of Edward John McBarron’s notes about G. S. and Mary Read, and his own descriptive list of the photographs, dated March 1982 (“The attached annotations are made and many are presumptions”).

Contents of the album include photographs of the Reads, construction of the Hume Weir Dam, views around Albury-Wodonga, the Murray River, and scenes in southern Victoria where the Reads took holidays.

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
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