Rowing Sheds at Lake Weeroona, Souvenir of Bendigo
Date1903
Object number00017010
NamePostcard
MediumBlack and white photographic image on paper.
DimensionsOverall: 90 x 139 mm
ClassificationsPosters and postcards
Credit LineANMM Collection Gift from Piers Jones
DescriptionSouvenir of Bendigo featuring the city's rowing sheds at Lake Weeroona. Rowers are seated in two sculls with oars at the ready, as onlookers, all men, watch from the wooden ramp. Handwritten on the image is 'Which will you have!', the postcard is address to Miss Hazel Quin of "Tarella", Wilcannia, and postmarked 9 October 1903.
HistoryThe Harry Brisbane Williams photographic collection provides an interesting record of a range of activities on Sydney Harbour from the 1890s into the 1920s. An enthusiastic amateur boater and photographer, Williams’ photographs capture a range of subjects – pleasure cruising on his motor launch on the Lane Cove River, yachting on Sydney Harbour, foreshore social activities, surf lifesaving, cargo ships, battle cruisers of the United States fleet, model yachting and the shipbuilding industry. In particular, they are a wonderful personal record of the new phenomenon of leisure motor boating in the early twentieth century.
Harry Brisbane Williams
1903
