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Two storied wooden and tiled house with dormer windows; three women standing outside, one with a horse.


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A two-storied house with creeper covered veranda; people in foreground on lawn include two women playing croquet, two women sitting on chairs, one sitting on the lawn, two standing and one on horseback, one man with a horse and a man and woman in a horse


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A two-storied house with creeper covered veranda. People in foreground on the lawn; three women and one man reclining and sitting on the lawn. One woman sitting on a chair and one woman standing.


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A brick house with picket fence, a fenced paddock, river inlet and cleared slope with buildings in background (Devonport).


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Picnic hut made of bark slabs (no glass in windows and dirt floor); a small girl standing in front.


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Catholic school, (left) presbytery and Catholic Church, Latrobe.


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Two small wooden board houses, one with a tin roof, one with a shingle roof; fronted by post and rail fence and an eroded bank. A group of people outside - man, woman, girl and two boys.


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Public buildings in Latrobe - War Memorial, Post Office, Council Chambers, and Court House. Taken from the opposite side of Gilbert Street. The photograph has been hand-coloured with green and red.


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Public buildings Latrobe - Post Office, Council Chambers, and Court House. Taken from opposite side of Gilbert Street; gas lamp in front of buildings.


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The Heidelberg Hotel later known as Harford Hotel was a two-storied wooden building with a tin roof. Three cars are parked outside including a 1936 Ford and a Wooley's Overland.


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Grave outlined in stone with headstone marked To the memory of Dr. George Albert Walpole FRCSI 1862 - 1942 Beloved by All


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Latrobe War Memorial with Council Chambers in the background.


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Latrobe railway bridge.


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Wells & Sons shop, Gilbert Street Latrobe, taken from Public Buildings Reserve opposite. An early Falcon car is parked on the street.


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Bank of Australasia in Latrobe. One-storied stone building (altered considerably since this picture was taken); policeman standing outside.


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Two prints, one on each side of mount. One is a two-storied stone building, The Lucas Hotel, with two horse-drawn carriages outside ; numerous men and a few women. The second building, opposite the Lucas Hotel is the Club Hotel, a two-storied wooden building


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Banfield's grocer and bakery shop, a wooden building with a tin-roofed veranda. Four men and a boy are standing outside. The man in the centre (in suit) is George Banfield, son of the founder. The small boy is Leigh Coventry.


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Interior of a shop showing a large variety of goods, mostly food and hardware, and three shop assistants. Left to right- Jimmy Wenn, Martin Wells, Bill Robinson.


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Sample Room at Lucas' Hotel. Eighteen hampers are pictured, showing a variety of clothes, blankets and furs.


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The corner shop on Union Street. Signs on shop Beehive Stores and Thompson's Corner. The windows display clothing. A man is standing in front of the shop door. Part of a car is visible on the left and part of a horse-drawn carriage on the right.


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W.L.Wells & Co store, Latrobe; stone building with awning. Two horse-drawn vehicles in front, one man with filled sacks on the cart and one man in the sulky. Two men stand in front of the shop with a bicycle. Morgan's ice-cream shop on left.


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Six cars parked outside the Devon Motor Garage. The proprietor was W.R.Lade. One man and two girls stand on the pavement, another man is sitting in a car. The garage is in two parts. Cars include a Citroen and a Hudson.


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Five cars parked outside C.N. Hicks' Garage, which was on the opposite corner to the Lucas Hotel in Gilbert Street. The cars include an Essex, a Hudson and a Manchester.


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C.N. Hicks' Garage showing the front and side views with petrol pump. The truck at the front belonged to Harry Shaw, the first contractor to the Council in the 1920's.


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Rudge's Garage, a corrugated iron building; eight cars parked outside; two boys standing.


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James Beck Pty Ltd Merchant's Store in Gilbert Street, Latrobe; a concrete building. Later changed to Morgan's shop and is now part of Wells & Sons. Built in 1935


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John Hicks Motor Works and Bicycle shop, Gilbert Street, Latrobe. A group of people standing in front of shop with numerous bicycles. L to R - Mrs John Hicks, John Hicks, Nobbie Broomhall, Pat Cook, Vic. Rose and Perc. Hicks (grandson of John)


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Benjamin Oppenheim's Store on completion; a two-storied brick building ( now Coventry's Pharmacy). Ten people standing in front of the store, plus four cattle. Clothes are displayed in one of the windows.


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Harry Coventry with his children Leigh and Molly, standing outside Coventry's Chemist shop underneath awning.


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View of the interior of Coventry's Chemist shop with Mr H. L. Coventry and three female assistants behind the counter. L to R - Vicki Broomhall, Bronwen Lord, Christine Andrew. The two elderly lady customers are the Misses Chaplin.


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Timber building with tin roof; four men and four boys posing outside; thought to be Shadbolt's Sawmill and Wheelwrights.


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Flour mill at Latrobe; three-storied wooden building. Seven men outside, one with a bicycle, one on a cart containing filled sacks, others in front of two horse-drawn carts.


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Numerous men and boys (approx. sixteen) and one infant in front of a steam thresher and large haystack. One boy is sitting on a workhorse. Machine comprises steam engine and thrashing machine.


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A man with a stick standing in front of a two-horse wagon; a wood fence and building in the background.


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A steam engine and thresher beside a large haystack and filled sacks. Seventeen men standing and kneeling in the foreground, some with pitch-forks.


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Four men standing in front of a steam engine which is being used to pump water from the Mersey River at the bottom bridge. A heap of wood in the foreground.


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Horsehead Creek near Quoiba, between Latrobe and Devonport. The weir across the creek supports a fenced dirt road being used by two bullock-driven carts. The carts contain filled sacks. One horse-drawn cart, three men driving carts.


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Five men, (three wearing apron type overalls) standing in front of an open carriage with large wheels


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Train being loaded with sacks (probably of potatoes) at the Latrobe railway yards. Seven bullock carts loaded with sacks stand in the yard with a number of men; a boy is standing next to the gate.


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Latrobe Railway Station; a train is being loaded with sacks of potatoes; numerous bullock-drawn and horse-drawn carts stand in the yard. There are numerous men and boys depicted.


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Thirteen men and boys posed around winch used for prospecting; two men holding winch handles; a heap of broken rock in right foreground; bush in background. To the left of the winch is Mr Alan Kirkwood, to the right of the winch is Mr Jimmy Kirkwood


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Nine men and two youths in the process of digging a trench and removing rock; two men holding rock in foreground are probably Mr Alan Kirkwood and his father Jimmy Kirkwood. Ferns and scrub in the background.


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Opening Day at the Shale Works; buildings and machinery for quarrying shale including engines and conveyor belts. Flags strung between structures. Numerous people, the men mainly in suits and hats.


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Shale oil works; timber building and slag heap with conveyor leading up to top.


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Bronder's Shale Works, western side of the Mersey River; buildings, tanks, conveyor structure and chimney; three railway tracks leading to buildings and a dirt road.


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The scene shows two small timber buildings, a horse-drawn cart and five men. Two sailing ships can be seen in the background - one has been identified as The Inglis. Another ship is being constructed at Latrobe Inlet, now Bell's Parade.


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Man standing in river holding half-submerged tin drum; four other tin drums on bank also two men, one youth and one girl.


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Brick building with large industrial chimney which is in the process of being demolished.


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Official opening of the Latrobe Show 1936; Col. D. A. Cameron at microphone; behind him Mr G Griffiths (left) and Mr M.Wells (right).


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Numerous men women and children standing on cleared site with bush in background; photograph taken during the building of the first Latrobe reservoir. Group includes S. J. Walkden (fourth from left), youth with bike and a minister of religion.

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