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Wool

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

Found in 124 Collections and/or Records:

A Crucial Test, Uardry [Station], New South Wales, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/650
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

A note on fleece cotting (felting) in sheep, 1984

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/1/861
Scope and Contents

Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1984. Volume 18 of 19.

Dates: 1984

A note on the fleece characteristics of Oxford Down sheep, 1985

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/1/882
Scope and Contents

Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1985. Volume 19 of 19.

Dates: 1985

Ancient Scythian wool from the Crimea, 13 April 1973

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/1/438
Scope and Contents

Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1973 - 1974. Volume 8 of 19.

Dates: 13 April 1973

British medieval sheep and their wool types, 1981

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/1/745
Scope and Contents

Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1981. Volume 15 of 19.

Dates: 1981

Carting Wool in Argentina, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2033
Scope and Contents

Photograph of eight horses drawing a wagon piled high with sacks of wool with two men riding on top and a gaucho riding along side in the early 20th century Argentina.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Coat structure in Soay sheep, 3 September 1966

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/1/224
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 3 September 1966

Devon Longwool Ram Lambs, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2736
Scope and Contents

Photograph of three Devon Longwool ram lambs standing in a paddock in the early 20th century. They were the winners of 'many prizes and clipped 8 lbs. or wool each at 4 months' and were 'owned by Gordon C Skinner, Pound, Bishop's Lydeard [Somerset, England].'

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Diary containing notes about selling horses and sheep, 1914

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/8/11
Scope and Contents

Notebook written in from both ends. Fly leaf inscribed 'Sheep'. Volume contains a sample of wool.

Dates: 1914

"Donald Dinnie", Grand Champion Ram of Australia, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1644
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the grand champion ram, "Donald Dinnie" in Australia in 1910. The image shows a man's hands parting the wool to show its quality. The text around the image notes the weight of the fleece and that the ram was sold in Australia for 1200 guineas.'

Dates: 1870s-1930s