Descriptive note

A member of the public provided the following information:

Ian Cathles with his father Louis Collingwood (Bill) Cathles. The photo was taken by James Fitzpatrick for a book called "Two Centuries" to celebrate 200 years from Cook's discovery. The photo was taken in the autumn of 1968 on the dry floor of Burrinjuck Dam. The dam had emptied for the first time since its construction and this had exposed all the old post and rail fences, and the dried out cracked mud on the dam floor looked pretty forlorn.

(This photograph was included in the Faces of Australia wall in the National Archives, Canberra building exhibition area.)