Description of Content
Street parade for 'Muggs Trot' with about twenty horse riders dressed in costumes passing the Royal Hotel (in background) watched by a scattered crowd of spectators on either side of the street. There as several horsedrawn vehicles parked by the kerb waiting for the parade to pass. In the left background is the weatherboard side wall of a shop on which are painted the words "[WHITE] HOUSE, CASH or TERMS, BEDSTEADS, BEDDING, WIRE MATTRESSES, CARPETS, LINOLEUMS, FLOORCLOTHS .. "
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Collection Names
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Collecting Areas
Images & Image Making, Leisure, Public Life & Institutions, Transport
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Acquisition Information
Copied from Rita Morrison, 17 May 1988
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Place & Date Depicted
Irvings' White House Furnshing Arcade, Reid Street, Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia, 21 Jul 1915
A double-storey building in the background is marked 'Royal Hotel' - possibly A.V. Gray's Royal Hotel situated on Reid Street, Wangaratta. -
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Format
Negative, 35 mm, Black & White
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Inscriptions
Hand-written in white across the bottom of the photograph: 'THE PROCESSION "MUGGS TROT" WANGARATTA 21/7/15' 'THELMA STUDIO'
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Keywords
Fancy Dress, Festivals, Horsedrawn Vehicles, Horses, Hotels, Parades, Streetscapes
