Dating
Family Photos, 1850-1920
Photographs bring
your family history to
life! The techniques and advice in this book will help you to
date, and perhaps identify,
those nineteenth and early twentieth century photographs in your
collection, and put them in their historical and social context.
It also contains effective guidelines to help you preserve those
irreplaceable portraits of your ancestors. It is an invaluable
reference for family and local historians world-wide.
ISBN
0 646 05898
3
$22.00
posted in Australia
Essendon and the Boer War,
with letters from the Veldt, 1899-1902
This book is based
on selected Coronial inquests
held in the district of Essendon, Moonee Ponds, Ascot Vale and
Flemington between 1840 and 1866. The evidence presented at the
inquests
were eye-witness accounts of events and conditions in the early days
of settlement. Witnesses include Alexander McDonald, a stockman,
who saw his mate gored by a wild bullock; John Dawes, a shepherd,
who found a dead body in a swamp with a little dog sitting on its
back;
and Christina Alcorn, who charitably attended a woman sick with
dysentery
living out her last miserable days in a tent. Causes of death
included
riding into trees, visitations of God, strychnine poisoning, drownings,
and of course, the occasional murder.