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A boy in a cart, with a goat in harness pulling it, in a backyard. This photograph shows Bill Onken, aged 12 training a goat to pull a cart for goat races in White City, circa 1922. His step mother Maude Onken, took this photograph in their backyard in North Melbourne. The backyard had many uses. Pigeons and goats were kept, and the clothes line was attached to a pole in the ground.
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Acquisition Information
Copied from Mrs Valerie Lynn Hogan, 23 Oct 2006
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Place & Date Depicted
Brown's Avenue, North Melbourne, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, circa 1922
Source of Date Depicted: The contributor says Bill Onken, the subject of this photograph, was born in 1914, and estimates he was 12 when the photograph was taken. -
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Onken, Bill
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Digital file, TIFF, Black & White
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Bill (front)
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