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Burrinjuck Dam: ‘Barren Jack looking downstream from Contractors Tramline 27 Oct 1910’ real photo postcard (Howard & Shearsby, Yass) with partly-completed dam wall in Murrumbidgee River valley, used under cover with message including "... The view on the other side is the palce where I am working at present ...", fine condition. [Construction commenced in 1907 but until about February 1911 the dam was known as ‘Barren Jack’, a corruption of the Aboriginal name for the locality]