dorrigo

You have to admire these pioneer women.

So nice :-)

This is in later days. Note the corrugated iron roof. Mum and the kids are well dressed. The family owns a buggy. These are not original settlers from the Robinson Acts era, so many of whom gave up and walked off their land.

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/163662868/16780820 - this pic appeared in the Sydney Mail on 4th September, 1907 in a pictorial on the Dorrigo district...see pic on 3rd page of link titled 'Pioneer's Home on the Edge of the Big Brush'... 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...

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/163662890/16780824 - this pic appeared in the Sydney Mail on 4th September, 1907 in a pictorial on the Dorrigo district... The Sydney Mail's title: 'Taking Cream from the Big Brush to the Factory at Dorrigo.' 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...

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/163662889/16780823# - this pic appeared in the Sydney Mail on 4th September, 1907 in a pictorial on the Dorrigo district...it formed the right side of a panorama titled 'John Nobbs's Dairy Farm'...see pic bottom of page... The left side of the panorama www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/2363531874/ 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...