Mitchell River, Bairnsdale

[Melbourne, Vic.] : Victorian Government Railways, [between 1920 and 1930]. Sepia tone silver bromide print photograph, 385 x 445 mm, printed on thick board; printed caption label lower centre; blind-stamped lower left ‘Victorian Railways Photo.’; wear at bottom corners, but overall in very good condition.

A fine example of the large-format photographs of Victorian scenery – influenced by the pictorialist school – that were commissioned by the Victorian government and which were typically displayed in railway carriages on regional train services.