University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Photograph of several mens hands pulling the wool away from the back of a sheep to test its quality at Uardry Station, New South Wales in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Photograph of a large flock of sheep on the plains of Burrawang [Station] in New South Wales, Australia in the early 20th century. There are three cowboys herding the sheep in the background.

Photograph of a flock of sheep in a sheep pen with a barn in the background in Goombargana, New South Wales, [Australia] in the early/mid 20th century.

Photograph of a flock of sheep tended to by two men on horseback and a few sheep dogs in a wooded field in Walbundrie, New South Wales, Australia in the early/mid 20th century.

Photograph of a flock of sheep in a wooded field next to a pond being tended to by men on horseback in Walla, New South Wales, Australia in the early/mid 20th century.

Photograph of stacks of 'fodder in reserve, what every pastoralist should have' in rows in a field at Uardry [Homestead] in [Hay], New South Wales, [Australia] in the early 20th century.

Photograph of the 5 year old, fine-wooled Merino ram, "Wellington" that was the Grand Champion, Champion and first prize winner of many shows and was owned and bred by A A Dangar of Gostwyck, Wialla, New England, New South Wales in the early/mid 20th century.

Photograph of a group of men shearing sheep in a shearing shed at Burrawang Station, New South Wales, Australia in the late 19th or early 20th century. NB: Some of the men on the left-hand side of the image are painted, possibly to cover up a blurred image.

Photograph of a group of men shearing sheep in a shearing shed at Burrawang Station, New South Wales, Australia in the late 19th or early 20th century. NB: Some of the men in the image are painted, possibly to cover up a blurred image.

Photograph of a Suffolk Down ewe nursing her triplets in a sheep pen in New South Wales, Australia in the early 20th century.