Summary

Black and white photograph from an album containing a personal story of Julius Toth's immigration experience and a collection of 40 photo reproductions. Julius left Hungary late in 1956 following the unsuccessful Hungarian revolution and subsequent Soviet Occupation. He escaped to Austria where he spent three months in Displaced Persons Camps before migrating to Australia in March 1957. This image is one of six which record a trip Julius made from Melbourne to Queensland in the 1959 Christmas holidays. They took enough money for food and petrol but didn't count on breaking down several times along the Newell Highway on the journey home. They eventually made it to a friend's in Albury where they could fix the car, having spent the last 100 miles of the trip stopping continuously to fill a flat tyre with newspaper so it wouldn't disintegrate.

Description of Content

Black and white photograph of two men. One is standing on the interior edge of a car with the front, passenger side door open, the other is standing on the road by the drivers door. The car is situated on a wide dirt road which is covered with a series of large puddles. Trees, grass and brush border either side of the road.

Physical Description

Landscape format, black and white reproduction photograph with a decorative white border.

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