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Title	Natural disasters - Droughts - A farmer examines parched earth on bottom of a dried-up dam - Each year some area of Australia is affected, more or less, by drought. Here a farmer and his son ruefully survey the crazed pattern of dried mud on the bed of an empty dam during the worst drought and hottest summer on record which struck a wide area of South-Eastern Australia during 1968 - AUSTRALIAN INFORMATION SERVICE PHOTOGRAPH - By J Fitzpatrick
Contents date range	1968 - 1969
Series number	A1200 Click to see which government agency or person created this item.
Control symbol	L84701
Citation	NAA: A1200, L84701
Item ID	11854896
Location	Canberra
Access status	Open
Physical format	PHOTOGRAPHS (allocated at series level)
Item notes	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.)
Visibility and availability indicators	76. Item charge: Photographic
Keyword headings	NATURAL DISASTERS DROUGHTS
Date registered	15 Nov 2002

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