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Fierce bushfire destroys Edwin Ashby's home Wittunga [B 70984/35] • Photograph

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Summary

Image from The Advertiser newspaper article on page 15, 10 March 1934, reporting on the bushfire with a five-mile front that came towards Blackwood from Belair burning everything in its path, including Edwin Ashby's home Wittunga.

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Physical description

Positive (slide, B&W); 35 mm

Dates / Publication details

1934

Collection

Part of Ashby Family Collection

Catalogue record

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General notes

An image from a collection of photographs and slides used to illustrate talks given by Enid Robertson: an address entitled 'Wittunga Garden - From a Family Point of View' given to the Historical Society of South Australia, 1996; and a second address entitled 'The Ashby Family' given to the Coromandel Valley National Trust, 2006. The individual images can be viewed by doing a number search on B 70984; this image relates to talk on 5 July 1996 (OH 363) by Enid L. Robertson.

Digitisation information

Date

21/11/2008

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

2,358 x 3,524 pixels (8.3 MP)

Size

24.96 MB

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