The ubiquitous re-use of readily available materials such as kerosene tins was a feature of many rustic structures on farms across the Wimmera.
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| Shed with rude timber poles and flattened kero tins |
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| Yurunga homestead |
Thursday, 20 March 2014
Historic images live again
Had a visit from a family who normally use the Mobile Library, and who had a couple of historic items they wished to have copied.
Firstly was a 70s vintage photo of Eddie Jaensch's original home, near Pepper's Plains. The structure was built primarily from kerosene tins. The ingenious building lined with flattened kero tins also has a row of tins to catch the rain from the galvanised iron roof where there was no spouting.
The ubiquitous re-use of readily available materials such as kerosene tins was a feature of many rustic structures on farms across the Wimmera.
In addition to the photo, which the library scanned and printed for them, the family had a small strip of microfilm sent to them from the State Library of Victoria. The mircofilm was a page from an old edition of the Jeparit newspaper with an article on the history of the beautiful Edwardian Yurunga Homestead at Rainbow. Again the Library was able to copy them a full size print of the article complete with a picture of the building.
The ubiquitous re-use of readily available materials such as kerosene tins was a feature of many rustic structures on farms across the Wimmera.
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I hope that the library is able to keep copies of these wonderful images for its own heritage collection.
ReplyDeleteWe hope so too Infolass, planning a Photo Project in the near future, more details in coming posts.
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