Summary

Black and white negative of two boys on a log sack fighting watched by a group of children, Merrigum, Victoria, 1910. Photographed by Lilian Louisa Pitts.

Frank Stephenson is the boy on the far right.
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.

Description of Content

Two small boys, straddling a log, fighting with hay filled sacks. There is hay spread on the ground to break their fall and they are watched by ten other children. The young girls are wearing hats and dresses and the young boys jackets typical of the Edwardian era.

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