The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 over to watch. Published in "On the Wool Track" in 1910 with caption "If an Australian has anything to explain, this is the way he does it". 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.
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. Probab
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
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 shearer inside a shearing shed sowing up a bale of wool with twine. Note the bale has been marked with the letter A. Bean's note on reverse of photograph reads " The oblong brick which comes out is
A man, with his back to the camera on the paddle steamer Jandra. 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 Sy
A man standing in a grassed paddock with arms outstreched, possibly on the bank of the Darling River. One of a series of photographs taken by C E W Bean during two trips he made in 1908 and 1909 to re
