shearer
16 photos and 1 illustration tagged shearer, from 5 members of Flickr Commons.
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- statelibraryofqueensland
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- State Library of Queensland
- Powerhouse Museum
- SDASM Archives
- SMU Libraries Digital Collections
- British Library
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Recent uploads
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Grave, Cloncurry district, ca 1929 from State Library of Queensland uploaded October 2025
Old time blade shearer, Dalby, Queensland, 1898 from State Library of Queensland uploaded August 2023
Jim Vaughan posing with a crocodile taken from the Cloncurry River, 1950 from State Library of Queensland uploaded July 2021
Shearers shearing sheep with electric clippers, ca. 1930s from State Library of Queensland uploaded June 2019
[Shearer at Controls of Speedboat] from SMU Libraries Digital Collections uploaded August 2017
Itinerant shearer with his belongings standing beside a bicycle ca. 1900 from State Library of Queensland uploaded September 2016
AL51-066 from SDASM Archives uploaded April 2014
Shearers on motor bikes, Winton, 1910 from State Library of Queensland uploaded November 2012
Strikers' Library at Barcaldine during the 1891 Shearers' Strike from State Library of Queensland uploaded January 2012
Shearer from SDASM Archives uploaded September 2010
A Shearer from Powerhouse Museum uploaded March 2009
Shearer on the move with his bicycle from State Library of Queensland uploaded February 2009
Shearing, opening the neck from Powerhouse Museum uploaded May 2008
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AL51-066
from SDASM Archives
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TVL1970 said:
Thomas Rodney Shearer (USMC) (April 28, 1891 - April 21, 1937) See: Find-A-Grave www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=sheare...; 1st LT T. R. Shearer, USMCR, designated Naval Aviator #559 in 1918. (Had organized McLemore Marines, Texas Naval Militia in FEB 1917, mustered into federal service in April.) Major Shearer, USMC, passed away at the U.S. Naval Hospital (chronic nephritis, believed result of a previous aircraft accident).
Shearing, opening the neck
from Powerhouse Museum
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covid convict said:
This shearer appears in several other pics... www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/2469692104/ www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/4903857080/ He also appears here...2nd left...this pic appeared in the Sydney Mail in 1904...see link at pic www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/2469690890/ trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/162833166/16636431 - the Sydney Mail, 21st July, 1894...similar pic of this shearer here...see pic top row 2nd rhs...this is the earliest pic of this chap I've encountered... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/163703116/16786311 - looks like another pic of this shearer appeared in the Sydney Mail on 9th December, 1899...in a feature article on the wool industry titled 'Sydney's Wool Trade - From Pasture to Port'...see 2nd page of link...pic bottom lhs titled 'Shearing by compressed air'...