stockmen

Sophie, Mangelo, Alice, Unknown, Eliza. Based on named portraits in this album.

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...

In Australia, a stockman (plural stockmen) is a person who looks after the livestock on a large property known as a station, which is owned by a grazier or a grazing company, traditionally on horseback. In this sense, it has a similar meaning to "cowboy". A stockman may also be employed at an abattoir, feedlot, on a livestock export ship, or with a stock and station agency. Aboriginal Australians were good stockmen who played a large part in the successful running of many stations. With their intimate bonds to their tribal places, and local knowledge they also took considerable pride in their work. After the gold rushes white labor was expensive and difficult to retain. Aboriginal women also worked with cattle on the northern stations after this practice developed in northern Queensland during the 1880s. A Native Administration Act later stopped the employment of women in cattle camps. Aboriginal people often received only food and clothing to retain their labor,[3] until they began to be paid a small cash wage in the 1950s and 1960s, much less than their white counterparts. In 1966, Vincent Lingiari led Gurindji workers on the Wave Hill walk-off, a strike on the large Vesteys cattle station in the Northern Territory, which brought about wage parity two years later. In the 21st-century class actions for these "stolen wages", as they have been dubbed, have taken place in Queensland, Western Australia, and the NT.[4] Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockman_(Australia)