FILE | 020/020264 |
TITLE | Marked Tree, near Mt. Blaxland |
Date | Not given |
Description | Black and white glass lantern slide. Title in ink on upper edge label. |
Creator | Frank Walker 1861-1948 |
Format | Glass lantern slide 8.2 x 8.2 cm |
Topics | bullocks; cairns; excursions; historic sites; historical costumes; monuments & memorials; people; ploughing; tree stumps |
Location | Blue Mountains (NSW); Mount Blaxland (NSW) |
Names | Gregory Blaxland 1778-1853; William Lawson 1774-1850; William Charles Wentworth 1790-1872 |
Copyright | Copyright expired. Permission to reproduce image from RAHS. |
Storage | 244.jpg |
Notes | Stump of tree at Mount Blaxland, claimed to have been marked by Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth on crossing the Blue Mountains in 1813. Show group of unidentified men and women gathered on and around a cairn of stones formed around base of tree. Unidentified man in formal clothing to left ploughing with team of bullocks. From negative in Mitchell Library Frank Walker Collection ON 150, Item 1019. |
Provenance | Presented to RAHS by Frank Walker |
Collection | Frank Walker glass lantern slide collection |
OnlineExhibitions | The Frank Walker Crossings Collection; Beyond the Blue Mountains |
Region | Greater Blue Mountains |
LGA | Blue Mountains; Lithgow |
CatNumber | U0579 |
Type | 1 |
