Summary

Black and white negative of two boys playing with a barrel and sail in a water hole, Merrigum, Victoria, 1910. Photographed by Lilian Louisa Pitts.

The boy who has fallen into the water is Frank Stephenson.
This image was used in a narrative sequence in an album Pitts created. This photographic narrative sequence was published as 'Tommy Trick's Adventure' in the 'Melbourne Herald' on 1st January 1924, and constituted Lillian's entry in the newspaper's 'Ideal Holiday Competition'. Lilian did not win a prize with her entry.
The photographic narrative was later published as 'Merrigum Frank' by Museums Victoria in 1990.

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.

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Two boys with barrel and sail in a water hole, one has fallen into the water. One of a series of images.

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