Photograph of a group of sheep shearers sitting and standing around a cook fire and pot for their midday meal on the plains at Cabana Foriane in [Argentina] in the early 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 men shearing sheep in a shearing shed in Australia in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Photograph of men shearing sheep outside in sheep pens on the Great Barrier Island, New Zealand in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Photograph of a group of men, women and children in front of a stone barn on a hill watching some men clip the wool off a flock of sheep. The shorn sheep stand in the foreground in the early 20th century at Skelfhill Farm in Hawick, Scotland.

Photograph of a man trimming the wool on a sheep in the mid-20th century. The sheep stands in front of a sheep pen with its head in a yolk while the man kneels next to it using a pair of trimmers to cut the wool from the sheeps back.

Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1965 - 1966. Volume 4 of 19.

Illustration of men using a Wolseley shearing machines in a wool shed in the late 19th century.