OBJECT TITLE / NAME

Some horse! 1920

DATE1920

MEDIAimage

COLLECTIONHastings-Western Port Historical Society

REG NO.P640

HISTORY

Augustus and Annie 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. Like most German immigrants Augustus ran the farm and built stables for his horses (he owned a handsome big black stallion) a blacksmith shop, dairy, meat cooling house, a bacon smoking and curing shed and even a cobbling shed to be self sufficient. On the back of the image is a signature, surname probably Franks, reading “With compliments from ... Warburton 1920” In ballpoint is handwritten ”This was a black stallion owned by August Haebich at Stanton their Bittern farm. The high shed were stables The low one the blacksmith shop” “Stanton purchased about 1913 owned by Johann August Haebich & Annie Louisa Haebich”

DESCRIPTION

The image shows two timber buildings in the background with tall trees behind and two men in front of the buildings, one crouched and one standing behind a rearing black horse

SUBJECTS

Farm buildings, Genealogy, Horses

KEYWORDS

Haebich, Johann August, Stanton Farm, Bittern