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Print
912824
  • Title
    Murder house, Daylesford, 1868 / photographer unknown
  • Call number
    SPF/1579
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date
    1868
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    912824
  • Physical Description
    1 photographic print - albumen, on card - 17 x 24.7 cm
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
    In 28 December 1865, David Young murdered Margaret Graham.

    Reference:
    "The Daylesford murder", Argus (Melbourne), Wednesday 8 February 1865, p.5, columns 6-7
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright: created before 1955
  • General note
    Transferred from SPF/Daylesford, Victoria (BM), November 2010
  • Signatures / Inscriptions
    "House at Daylesford, Victoria, 1868 where a murder was committed; the murderer got down the chimney at night and cut a woman's throat in the room" -- in pencil on the reverse

    "At the back of the shanty shown was a motley collection of tents, tin shanties, etc. typical of a gold fields township in its early days" -- in ink on the reverse
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