Abandoned
Pakenham Victoria

Archive of negatives from Pakenham, Victoria

Over a hundred of 6x9 cm negatives were purchased from Pakenham, Victoria. They were neatly stored in two Kodak envelopes with the slogans: It's the Kodak film that makes the picture and Bring Home Kodak Photographs. The latter envelope must be older as inside it advertises both Kodak Regular and then new Verichrome film. Kodak introduced Verichrome in 1931 and it soon replaced the Regular film. The newer Kodak cameras depicted on the back are Six-20, Jiffy Six-16, Six-16 Brownie Junior and Baby Brownie introduced in 1932, 1933, 1934 and 1934, respectively.

Kodak Panatomic and Super Sensitive Pancromatic appear on the more recent envelope. Panatomic-X was a fine grain film introduced by Kodak in 1938 and produced up to the late 1970s.

The subjects of the photographs suggest that they were taken in the 1930s.

Several locations were identified including the Hume Bridge in Yass completed in 1870, The Dog on the Tuckerbox monument near Gundagai erected in 1932, the War Memorial (Cenotaph) in Gundagai opened in 1928, and the Hampden Bridge in Kangaroo Valley opened in 1898. The spectacular waterfall that appears in many images is most likely the Fitzroy Falls about 20 kilometers from Kangaroo Valley and about 170 km from Yass.