Item MM 8154 Negative - Backyard, Charlton, Victoria, circa 1890

Summary

View of backyard and rear of house of Beckett family home in Charlton, circa 1890. Photograph by Thomas Beckett.

Part of a collection of glass plate negatives taken by Dr Thomas George Beckett, doctor, pioneering radiologist and amateur photographer between 1891 and 1910. The collection is primarily of Beckett's family, friends, homes, and towns and suburbs where Beckett and his family lived, including Charlton in central Victoria and Northcote & South Yarra, suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria.

Description of Content

The rear and yard of a residence adjacent to a church. The buildings are weatherboard with brick chimneys. Crosses on roof finials of church. There is a vine on a pergola in the foreground.