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117 photos and 8 illustrations tagged wool, from 23 members of Flickr Commons.

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• woolbales
• samueljhoodcollection
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• sydney
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• industry
• sydneyharbour
• pastoralindustry
• magdalenevinnen
• shearing
• archives
• women
• man
• woolloomooloo
• barque
• children

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• Powerhouse Museum 28 photos & illustrations
• Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons 22 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 12 photos & illustrations
• State Library of New South Wales 8 photos & illustrations
• North East Museums 8 photos & illustrations
• British Library 8 photos & illustrations
• State Library of Queensland 6 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 5 photos & illustrations
• Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection 5 photos & illustrations
• Miami University Libraries - Digital Collections 4 photos & illustrations
• Cornell University Library 3 photos & illustrations
• Mennonite Church USA Archives 2 photos & illustrations

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Portrait of two men in suits smiling at the camera

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

• covid convict said:

  trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/4208388 - a crop from this pic...showing only A.V. Kewney (the chap on the left)...appeared in the Melbourne Argus on 13th October, 1930...the pic was evidently taken in Sydney on 10th October, 1930, when RMS Aorangi arrived from Vancouver. She was evidently berthed at Darling Harbour wharf No. 5. A.V. Kewney (Arthur Vaux Kewney) was then secretary of the Victoria Racing Club. At the time he was returning to Australia from a tour to Britain and Europe. The identity of the chap on the right remains a work in progress...the name on the slide appears to be 'Purdey'... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16719323 - SMH, 3rd October, 1930...the Aorangi's passenger list that appeared in the SMH has a Mr G. Purdy...so that might be him... he's not Dr John Smith Purdy (1872–1936), the Sydney Health Officer...

Pressing wool

from Powerhouse Museum

• covid convict said:

  trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/163682091# - this pic appeared in the Sydney Mail, 17th October, 1906...in a feature article on the wool industry (see pic 2nd page of link)...

Lacre truck outside Skinner's Store, Adavale, Queensland, ca. 1925

from State Library of Queensland

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  This iconic outback town played an important part in the history of the Quilpie Shire, as it was once the central business center. The town is named after Ada Constance Stevens (wife of Ernest James Stevens). The Stevens family had the Tintinchilla (later Milo) pastoral run in the area. There is a story that the origin of the name is that Ada lost her hat veil (Ada-veil) when the Milo road crosses Blackwater Creek. Town and suburban lots in the town of Adavale were sold on 9 February 1881 at Charleville The town was a thriving center but, in 1917, the Western railway line did not come to the town as expected but passed further to the south where the new town of Quilpie was created along the railway line, and soon became the major town in the region while Adavale diminished. In 1930, it was decided that the seat of local government should move from Adavale to Quilpie and the Shire of Adavale was renamed the Shire of Quilpie. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adavale