Summary
Black and white negative of Winifred and Edgar Pitts packing fruit, Merrigum, Victoria, 1910-1920.
Part of the Lilian Louisa Pitts collection. Lilian Pitts photographed, processed and printed her photographs from about 1910.
The collection is based on her life in the fruit growing and dairying community of Merrigum, a town west of Shepparton, in the Goulburn Valley. Lilian Pitts was born in 1872 and arrived in Merrigum with her family in 1893 and died in 1947.
Description of Content
Woman and man working with fruit packing cases and other fruit picking tools, packing fruit.
More Information
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Collection Names
Lilian Louisa Pitts Collection, Invisible Farmer Project Collection
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Place & Date Depicted
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Photographer
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Individuals Identified
Pitts, Winifred; Pitts, Harold
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Format
Negative, Black & White
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Keywords
Crates, Farms, Fruit Pickers, Fruit Trees, Orchards, Portraits, Women on Farms, Women's Work, Women in Agriculture, Rural Women, Rural Life, Agricultural Workers
