More Info →Tent home on Ola Dahlstrom’s property

Mr and Mrs Ola Dahlstrom lived at Roberts Line, Kelvin Grove, from about 1876, although annotations on the photograph gives this location as Bunnythorpe. The tent was made at Charles Dahl's canvas workshop in Main Street, and is a good example of a ‘bushwackers’ or farm labourer’s residence. From left, named as 'Oden, Dad, De Freede, Andrew Larsen, Dalstrom [sic], Mrs Larsen senior.’