OBJECT TITLE / NAME

August Haebich & butchers cart, Bittern, Victoria 1920 - 1929

DATE1920s

MEDIAimage

COLLECTIONHastings-Western Port Historical Society

REG NO.P637

HISTORY

Augustus Haebich migrated from Germany and settled at “Stanton” Bittern early in the nineteen hundreds. He was a butcher who travelled the district with horse and cart, selling his meat. On the back of the image is handwritten in ballpoint and pencil “August Haebich & butchers cart Bittern, Victoria” “Donated by Merle Haebich”

DESCRIPTION

The image shows August Haebich wearing a striped butcher’s apron and standing behind a two wheeled cart loaded with bags. A horse is harnessed to the cart. The image is taken on a country road with large trees behind

SUBJECTS

Butchers, Carts and wagons, Draughthorses, Genealogy

KEYWORDS

Haebich, Johann August, Haebich, Merle