Quirindi-Walcha district, 1920's / glass negatives photographed by W. Foster and W.J. Carney

ON 366

fonds

1920's

Graphic Materials, Photographs

840094

22 negatives - 12 x 16.4 cm - glass

W. Foster was a teacher at the public school, Garthowen, near Attunga. W.J. Carney was the headmaster at Nundle Public School from 1923-1931. Both were amateur photographers who spent over five years in the district.

Reference:
Library correspondence file

1. Primitive methods - man's ingenuity. Workmen on W.R.H. Scott's property, Port Macquarie Road, 35 miles from Walcha
2. "Riverglade" the home of the Noakes family fronting the Tia River
3. Falls near A. Chandler's in creek flowing into river
4. Upper part of Tia Falls
5. Tia Falls
6. Tia River near the station owned by the late Augustus Hooke. Trout, eels are to be obtained
7. [blank]
8. Traction engine and trucks used for timber hauling from Yarrowitch Mills to Walcha Road Railway Station
9. Giants of the scrub. Timber getters for the Apsley Mill
10. Convicts' garden myrtle scrub, Port Macquarie Road
11. Myrtle scrub, Port Macquarie Road, no.2
12. The myrtle scrub, Port Macquarie Road, below Yarrowitch. Ideal place for tourist sportsmen
13. Falls, Enfield Park, Yarrowitch
14. Enfield Park wool. W.R.H. Scott. Always commands high prices
15. Bottom no.1 Apsley Falls
16. No.4 Yarrowitch Falls
17. No.3 Costigan's Falls, Yarrowitch River
18. Fall near Yarrowitch Station
19. Chandlers Falls, Yarrowitch River
20. Convicts garden on the Port Macquarie Road below Yarrowitch Station
21. Yarrowitch Saw Mill
22. Yarrowitch Saw Mill. Softwood cedar, rosewood, tulip, etc. Hardwood blue gum, stringy bark

Copyright status:Public domain

Cations in the photographers' hand