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Flood, Canberra, 1925 [picture]
Bib ID 3258623
Format PicturePicture, OnlineOnline
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Description 1925 
1 photograph : b&w ; 7.5 x 12.7 cm. 
Biography/History

In 1925 the Murrumbidgee River recorded its highest flood level in 34 years. One person drowned at Canberra. Greatest flood on record on the Molonglo River (southern tablelands). Families washed out & bridges damaged. The Burrinjuck Dam overtopped and was severely damaged, the towns of Gundagai and Wagga Wagga suffered heavy damage.

Notes

Inscriptions: "Canberra 1925 some sort of flood"-- in ink on reverse.

Title devised by cataloguer based on the inscriptions on the reverse.

Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http:/­/­nla.gov.au/­nla.pic-vn3258623

Subjects Floods - Australian Capital Territory - Photographs

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