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

Two young men standing by a Renault car which is parked at the side of a road. One man is holding a rifle and posing as if he is about to fire. The other is standing, shirt less, with his hands on hips looking directly into the camera. The landscape behind the car and men is flat but littered with trees.

Physical Description

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

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