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Fences

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Curious Fatal Accident to a Racehorse, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/172
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the racehorse, 'Boree Jack', that suffered a curious and fatal accident when he was impaled on a rail during a race when a dust storm hit in West Wyalong, New South Wales, Australia in 1909 with three men standing behind the carcass: David Weir (owner); R. Walker (rider); and J. Laffan (trainer).

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Live Fence Poles and Police, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/994
Scope and Contents

Photograph of an African policeman with his bicycle standing next to an electrified fence in the early/mid 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Note which reads ' Hake = Fence of Gates', July 1909

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/25
Scope and Contents

Note which reads ' Hake = Fence of Gates'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: July 1909