The historic Congwarra homestead in the Tidbinbilla district besieged by fire in the pre-dawn hours of 18th January 2003 [picture] / Jeff Cutting
- Bib ID:
- 3511842
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Cutting, Jeff, 1945-
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 2003
- 1 photograph : col. ; image 29 x 45.2 cm., on sheet 32.8 x 48.2 cm.
- Series:
- Cutting, Jeff, 1945- Blood red noon, photography of the Brindabella & southern ACT fires of January 2003.
- Summary:
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"Congwarra homestead, Paddys River Road at 0445 hrs, 18:01:2003. Bushfire tankers from the ACT and NSW protected the historic "Congwarra" homestead and outbuildings under threat from the Bendora fire advancing strongly out of the Pierces Creek Forest in the hours before dawn on 18 January 2003."--Note from the photographer.
- Notes:
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- Title from caption list supplied by the photographer, see file NLA04/564.
- Part of the collection: A blood red noon, photography of the Brindabella & southern ACT fires of January 2003.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-149587505
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased 2005.
- Subject:
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- Forest fires -- Australian Capital Territory -- Photographs
- Wildfires -- Australian Capital Territory -- Photographs
- Natural disasters -- Australian Capital Territory -- Photographs
- Farmhouses -- Australian Capital Territory -- Congwarra -- Fires and fire prevention -- Photographs
- Congwarra (A.C.T.) -- Photographs
- Other authors/contributors:
- Cutting, Jeff, 1945-
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This belongs to the A blood red noon, photography of the Brindabella & southern ACT fires of January 2003.
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- Published status:
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- Creation date:
- 2003
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