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trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/163662868/16780821# - this pic appeared in the Sydney Mail on 4th September, 1907 in a pictorial on the Dorrigo district...see pic on 4th page of link titled 'A Farm of 124 Acres for which in its improved state £2200 was refused'... Some of the other Dorrigo pics that appeared in this issue of the Sydney Mail are also in the PHM's collection, and they're also on the PHM's Flickr photostream...they come up if you click on the 'Sydney Mail, 4th September, 1907' tag I've added...

Any chance this actually says "the whole DARND family"?

I think you're right.

That's my impression too. It's a joke because one member of the "family" is a monkey. My mistake: two monkeys

The title is a takeoff on the title of a 1905 silent comedy short, "The Whole Dam Family and the Family Dog" (sequel to another 1905 short, "I. B. Dam and the Dam Family"), which also supplied subject matter for a raft of comic picture postcards. Use of the word "damn" was considered very risque in polite circles then, and even spelling it without the final "n" could bring a frisson of titillation to sensitive auditors. Here is an example of a "Dam Family" postcard: www.slv.vic.gov.au/pcards/0/0/1/doc/pc001380.shtml Incidentally, "darnd" above is a misspelling. It should be "darned."

Unless their last name was Darnd.