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
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- SMU Libraries Digital Collections
- British Library
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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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Itinerant shearer with his belongings standing beside a bicycle ca. 1900
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Vesna Verencevic said:
During the early years of sheep breeding in Australia, shearing was carried out by shepherds, assigned servants, Ticket of Leave men, and free labourers using blade shears. As the sheep industry expanded, more shearers were required. Although the demand had increased, the conditions had not, and shearers had to contend with terrible working conditions, very long hours and low pay. In 1888, Australia became the first country in the world have a complete shearing, at Dunlop Station, finished using machines. By 1915, most large Australian sheep station shearing sheds had machines that were powered by steam engines. Later, internal combustion engines powered machines until rural power supplies became available. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep_shearer
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).