Summary

Part of the Biggest Family Album collection of images comprising approximately 10,000 negatives documenting life in rural and regional Victoria dating from the 1890s to the 1940s.

This photograph is from a set of 81 images mainly depicting life in and around Mildura in the 1920s and 1930s. The donor's ancestors migrated from Germany and settled in Mildura in 1880s. Many of the photographs were taken by August Müller, the donor's great-grandfather. Amongst the images taken by Müller is a collection of photographs of early Mildura, which he sent back to Germany to be printed and made into postcards, which he then sold in his general store [see MM 5274] in Mildura.

This image is of the Mildura Agricultural High School, shortly after it was built. The College has a close association with the development of Mildura and the district's irrigation system which was created by the Chaffey brothers in the 1880's. The foundation stone for what was to be the Chaffey Agricultural College was laid in 1890, but because of financial difficulties, the building of the College did not eventuate until 1912 when the Education Department of Victoria erected a high school on the Chaffey College site. Mildura Agricultural High School was officially opened in September 1912.

Description of Content

The Mildura Agricultural High School.

Physical Description

35mm photographic negative on cellulose acetate substrate.

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