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State Library of Queensland

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About State Library of Queensland, Australia Located in Brisbane, Australia, the State Library of Queensland’s mission is to collect, preserve and make accessible the state’s documentary heritage.

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The last upload was 27 November.

Shearers working in a shearing shed. uploaded 27 November
Inside the new woolshed built at Wellshot Station in 1931 uploaded 27 November
Men shearing sheep at McLaughlin's Woolscour, Barcaldine, Queensland, ca. 1910 uploaded 27 November
Well deserved tea break after shearing the sheep, Lakeriver, in the Kilkivan district uploaded 27 November
Narrow comb (machine) shearing at Jondaryan Station. ca. 1906 uploaded 27 November
Old service car en route to the shearer's next job, ca. 1925 uploaded 27 November
Phil Gadsby, shearing a sheep uploaded 27 November
Portrait of Jim Morris, a shearer from Tara, Queensland uploaded 27 November
Portrait of shearers and farm workers in front of a farm building at Talgai, Queensland uploaded 27 November
Portrait of shearers as 'Unionist Prisoners' after the shearers' strike in Barcaldine, Queensland, 1893 uploaded 27 November
Portrait of shearers outside a shearing shed, 1880-1890 uploaded 27 November
Pressing and dumping the wool on Nive Downs Station uploaded 27 November
Shearer on the move with his bicycle, ca. 1906 uploaded 27 November
Portrait of shearers at the Telemon shed, Hughenden, Queensland, 1920 uploaded 27 November
Shearers on bicycles, Queensland, 1910-1920 uploaded 27 November

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Early view of Yandilla Street, Pittsworth

from State Library of Queensland

Aussie~mobs said:
This photo was used in a postcard for the Queensland Intelligence and Tourist Bureau

View of Tweed Heads, 1942

from State Library of Queensland

beachcomber australia said:
I don't mean to start WW3, but I think it is in New South Wales !

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State Library of Queensland said:
beachcomber australia Tweed Heads is in New South Wales. So I will change the location to NSW. FYI there is another image "Tweed Heads from Razorback" online that give more volume to where the image was taken from onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au/permalink/61SLQ_INST/1dejkfd/alm.... Thanks for your help in finding an error ..