Description of Content
A young woman and man, Nell Wood (at left) and Bill Pedler (at right), dressed in bathing costumes standing in front of a wooden tank stand on a farm property at Ginquim, near Mildura, in the far north-west of Victoria. Behind the couple is a hand-operated reciprocating piston pump, connected by a metal pipe to a corrugated iron water tank onto of the stand. The pump drew water from a nearby dam, with the water then being feed by gravity from the tank to various locations on the farm. In the background are remnants of cleared mallee scrub to the left, with some rough bush buildings sheltered behind a log fence. In the right background several draught horses are standing watching.
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Acquisition Information
Copied from Mrs Doris H. Sutherland, 10 Dec 1987
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Place & Date Depicted
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Photographer
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Person Depicted
Mr William (Bill) Pedler, Ginquim, Mallee, Victoria, Australia, 1933
William (Bill) Pedler was the brother-in-law of the photographer Francis Oswald (Frank) Wood, who married Bill's eldest sister, Choris Grace Pedler in 1919. The two families grew up in the Dean-Newstead district, near Creswick, moving to the Thurla-Ginquim district near Mildura, in the far north-west of Victoria during the 1920s. -
Person Depicted
Miss Nell Wood, Ginquim, Mallee, Victoria, Australia, 1933
Nell Wood is believed to have been a relative of the photographer Frank Wood. -
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Negative, 35 mm, Black & White
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Keywords
Agricultural Workers, Farms, Fences, Horses, Sport, Swimming, Tank Stands, Water Tanks
