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Australia, Horse riding, Dingo Farm, Family, Hospital, [between 1993 and 2002]

 File — Box: PCLTA 2546 Box 5
Identifier(s): H2022.22/1070-1262

Scope and contents

Shows Vali horse riding at a horse farm in December 1996 probably riding brumbies at Pat and Peter Fischer's near Castlemaine, travelling in Sydney and on a boat in Sydney Harbour December 1997, at Bruce Jacobs Dingo Farm at Chewton near Castlemaine with friends during 1997 to 2000, Vali with friends visiting the Dingo farm, with her dingo puppy 'Gypsy Rose' from the Dingo Farm, portraits of Bruce Jacobs and interior and exterior views of the Dingo Farm. Also some unidentified family photographs of Vali's family and possibly her family home in Box Hill?, Vali in the Epworth hospital with friends making final visits to her in 2003. There a photographs of Carol Beckwith visiting in January 2001, and some photographs taken by Carol Beckwith signed on verso showing Vali ill in hospital and with visitors (H2022.22/1235-1237, H2022.22/1249-1250 dated 1/03). There are a few miscellaneous photographs at the end of the album with two photographs of dogs at Il Porto including her blind dog, (2022.22/1256-1257), larger format Victorian landscape views (H2022.22/1258-1263), a Dalmatian dog and a series of 14 colour portraits of Vali Myers taken by Darren James in the studio Nicholas Building (H2022.22/1263-1276), with fox sculpture and ojbects in the background. Negatives for some colour prints at H2019.54/1-88.

Dates

  • [between 1993 and 2002]

Extent

193 photographs : chromogenic

  • Box: PCLTA 2546 Box 5 (Graphic materials)

Repository details

Part of the Pictures Collection, State Library Victoria Repository

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