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Summary:: Part of the Lillian Louisa Pitts collection. Lillian Pitts photographed, processed and printed her photographs from about 1910. The collection is based on her life in the fruit growing and dairying community of Merrigum, a town west of Shepparton, in the Goulburn Valley. Lillian Pitts was born in 1872 and arrived in Merrigum with her family in 1893 and died in 1947.
Description Of Content:: "Merrigum - Church picnic - Frank Stephenson and Ken Andrews (pillow fight)" two boys sit straddled on a beam mounted betwen two posts. They hold stuffed sacks behind their heads. A group of children are gathered around watching.

Discipline:

Technology

Tagged with:	children s play, fences, leisure, pillow fights, portraits, recreation, recreation activities, rural life, sacks, sport
Themes this item is part of:	Childhood & Youth Collection, Domestic & Community Life Collection, Images & Image Making Collection, Leisure Collection, Public Life & Institutions Collection, Sustainable Futures Collection
Primary Classification:	RECREATION & TOURISM
Secondary Classification:	Outdoor Activities
Original Caption:	Merrigum - church picnic - Frank Stephenson and Ken Andrews (pillow fight)
People Depicted:	Andrews, John K; Stephenson, Frank
Format:	Negative: Black & White
Place Depicted:	Merrigum, Victoria, Australia
Photographer:	Ms Lilian Pitts
References:	Melbourne Herald, 1 January 1924, Ideal Holiday Competition Pitts, Lillian Louisa, 'Merrigum Frank', compiled by Euan McGillivray and Matthew Nickson, Museum of Victoria, South Australia; Griffin Press Limited, 1990. Cook, Valda Dorothy, 'Unremarkable Women? The Life and Times of Lillian Pitts, Photographer', (Honours Thesis- Monash University), 1992