OBJECT TITLE / NAME

Johann August Haebich on butcher’s cart c. 1910

DATE1910s

MEDIAimage

PHOTOGRAPHERHemmings

COLLECTIONHastings-Western Port Historical Society

REG NO.P641

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. On the back of the image is written in ink and pencil “Johann August Haebich on butchers cart at “Stanton” Bittern Victoria” “Donated by Merle Haebich”

DESCRIPTION

The image shows a two wheeled cart in the foreground with a black horse harnessed to it. Johann August Haebich is sitting in the cart holding the reins. In the background are large trees, other horses and a group of people.”J A Haebich” is printed on the side of the cart.

SUBJECTS

Butchers, Carts and wagons, Genealogy, Horses

KEYWORDS

Bittern, Haebich, Johann August, Haebich, Merle, Stanton Farm, Bittern