Description of Content
View across the timber yard of Richards Seasoning Works at Brimbonga, on Big Pats Creek, near Warburton East, with a small weatherboard hut or site office in the foreground and two branching light railway or tramway tracks on which rail trolleys or bogie trucks loaded with sawn timber are parked. In the background are several large open-sided sheds forming part of the sawmill or seasoning works where sawn green timber cut from eucalypt logs harvested in the surrounding forests was dried to reduce moisture content and improve its strength.
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Acquisition Information
Donation from Ms Pat De Moulpied, 11 Jan 1989
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Place & Date Depicted
Richards Seasoning Works, Brimbonga, Big Pats Creek, Yarra Valley, Victoria, Australia, circa 1920s
Location of image identified by Michael McCarthy, per DC Inquiry No:102018, 12/05/2024. -
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Glass Stereograph Negative, Black & White
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References
Bob Padula (2012). 'The Forests of Warburton - a Pictorial Heritage - 1853 to 2012 / 1915 to 1973 - Brimbonga Seasoning Works - East Warburton', website viewed 15-05/2024, [Link 1]
[Book] McCarthy, Mike J. 2001. Mountains of Ash - A History of the Sawmills & Tramways of Warburton and District.
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Keywords
Huts, Light Railways, Lumber Yards, Railway Lines, Railway Rollingstock, Roads, Sawmills, Seasoning Works, Timber, Timber Tramways, Tramway Equipment, Trees
