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Tinker Harold Wright with his Chevy truck, 1953

from State Library of New South Wales

• james gallagher said:

  What do tinkerers do ? Certainly this fellow does not tinker.

• beachcomber australia said:

  Horse power due to the petrol shortage in 1948 - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/105817660?searchTerm=%...

• beachcomber australia said:

  More from 1967 Australian Women's Weekly - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/48078461?searchTerm=%2...

• Merryjack said:

  A man's world on wheels. dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/tinker Jeff Carter (1928-2010) was Australia’s great photographer of ‘ordinary’ Australians at work and leisure. When ‘asked to leave’ Melbourne Boys High School in his final year, 1946, he took to the road with a typewriter and camera, finding work in the high country with cattle, the subject of his first photo-story. www.portrait.gov.au/portraits/2017.128/jeff-carter-with-h... I first met Jeff when he lived at Foxground near Gerringong.

Two exhibitors eye each other's charges, Sheep Show, ca. 1945 / Jeff Carter, Walkabout photograph

from State Library of New South Wales

• 43 older comments, and then…
• Freezing Voyage said:

  This shot just shows how common place photographs taken without artistic vision later becomes valuable historic record.
  
  Wonderful. Amazing fleece those sheep have.

• LizBallerPhotos said:

  Thanks love the shot

• Mario Groleau said:

  
  

• blue-eyed dog said:

  I was thinking epididimitis , but that doesn't explain both cases , hmmmm.

• //\\oo//\\ Spyder Venym said:

  Look at their bums! :D They look like kids in diapers!