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This is a wonderful rural scene. Also has sister image which is more fully catalogued here: www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=30178 "The Union" harvester by Nicholson & Morrow was an important agricultural innovation, but sold poorly. (ref. www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A050344b.htm ) And some more about the harvester wars here: www.abc.net.au/landline/content/2005/s1320660.htm

Awesome B&W's. Wish I could get tutoring/info on B&W technique. mistaron@wfeca.net. Obliged.

Hermosa y surrealista foto.

Same occasion...this same occasion pic appeared in the Sydney Mail on 30th January, 1907...see comments re location/links here www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/2363514272/

This pic forms the left side of a panorama middle www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/2451472036/ right www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/2447210457/ trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/165386803 - the panorama appeared in the Sydney Mail, 30th January, 1907...in a pictorial feature on the 1906-07 harvest...per the Sydney Mail the location was Ross brothers' farm at Comabella, near Wellington, in central western NSW.

Nicholson's Header Trials 1885? MLA citation "TRIAL OF HARVESTERS." The Riverine Herald (Echuca, Vic. : Moama, NSW : 1869 - 1954; 1998 - 2002) 18 December 1885: 2. Web. 27 Oct 2020 .

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/165386800/17337029 - this pic appeared in the Sydney Mail on 30th January, 1907...in a feature article on Nicholson & Morrow's Union Harvester...the pic formed the left side of a panorama...see pic on 1st page of link...top of page... The Sydney Mail's caption: 'A Dozen Union Harvesters Drawn Up After Completing a Paddock' Same occasion...spot the differences www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/3004415880/ Per the Sydney Mail, these pics were taken at Ross brother's farm at Comabella, near Wellington, in Central Western NSW...see 2nd page of link...last paragraph of article... collection.maas.museum/object/27872 - this pic also appeared in the Sydney Mail...on the bottom of this same page...I haven't managed to find it on the PHM's Flickr photostream... collection.maas.museum/object/27860 - this pic looks to have been taken on the same occasion as the pic above... collection.maas.museum/object/27881 - ditto...