The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A man wearing an apron standing in the kitchen on a shearing property. The shearers cook is bending over the fire place and adding something to the large pots of food cooking over the log fire. Probably taken in the something region. Published in "On the Wool Track" in 1910 with the caption "The shearers' cook". One of a series of photographs taken by C. E. W. Bean during two trips he made in 1908 and 1909 to regional NSW as a journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald. The purpose of these trips was to research the wool industry of western NSW and the transportation and railway possibilities of the Darling River region. Photographs from the private collection of C. E. W. Bean held at AWM38 3DRL 6673.
NSW. c. 1908. A typical shearing shed in progress at the height of the shearing season. Shows a long line of shearers at work on the left side of the shed and the wool classing tables on the right. No
A number of small, wooden buildings surrunded by trees probably part of a shearing station seen from a distance. One of a series of photographs taken by C. E. W. Bean during two trips he made in 1908
Two men with a saddled horse next to a large wooden fence, probably taken on a shearing property in western NSW. One man is squatting down drawning directions in the dirt and the second man is bending
NSW. c. 1908. A shearer riding a bicycle with his belongings attached to the handle-bars. Probably taken in the something region. Published in "On the Wool Track" in 1910 with caption "A shearer trave
NSW. c. 1908. A shearer riding a bicycle across a flat, scrub covered plain with his belongings attached to the handle-bars. Probably taken in the something region. One of a series of photographs take
NSW. c. 1908. The flat, dry terrain of the something region. A small group of gum trees can be seen in the right of the photograph. One of a series of photographs taken by C. E. W. Bean during two tri
