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Weeding a garden bed of pansies on Wittunga farm [B 70984/8] • Photograph

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Summary

Young Alison Ashby, aged about 6 years, is weeding a pansy border helped by her Aunt Meta, one of Edwin Ashby's sisters. The developing Home Orchard and Wittunga house are in the background. Margaret (Meta) Ashby had first come to South Australia in 1888 with Edwin Ashby, returning to England soon afterwards. She visited South Australia from time to time.

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Physical description

Photograph (B&W print); 7.6 cm x 10.4 cm

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1907

Collection

Part of Ashby Family Collection

Subject

Ashby (Family)

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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 talks on 5 July 1996 (OH 363) and 1 February 2006 (OH 787) by Enid L. Robertson.

Digitisation information

Date

03/12/2008

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,426 x 2,649 pixels (9.1 MP)

Size

27.26 MB

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