This is a collection of 25 digital curriculum resources focusing on Australians at work around 1900. The resources are grouped into ten categories - major projects; primary industry; small business; the clothing industry; the post office; newspaper production; working with haulage animals; mining; logging; and working at home. The collection includes archival film footage, photographs and a painting. The highlight of the collection is a series of video clips showing men working for the Sydney Morning Herald.
R6132 Laying pipes across the Darling Ranges, c1902
R8135 Across the Trans-Continental Railway, c1917: Laying the railway line
R8006 Pacific Islander labourers clearing land, c1895
R8179 Chinese farm workers planting cane, Cairns, 1890s
R3951 Maize silo stack, Hilltop, Tilba Tilba, c1895
R8118 Wheat Harvesting with Reaper and Binder at Jimbour, Qld, 1899
M002600 Three men on horseback, droving sheep with dogs, c1910
R3595 Shearing by machinery, 1890-1917
R9150 Living Hawthorn, 1906: Businesses and street life, Hawthorn
R6154 Scenes in Hamilton, c1915 - asset 2
R7338 For Love or Money, 1983: First women's union
R2997 Telephonists at the Brisbane telephone exchange, 1910
R2418 Yorketown Post Office technology
R2078 Carting paper to the stores
R7073 The Sydney Morning Herald, 1911: Stereotyping at Fairfax
R7074 The Sydney Morning Herald, 1911: Preparing the printing machine
R2080 Newspaper printing press in action
R7075 The Sydney Morning Herald, 1911: Folding mechanism of print machine
M000437 Wagon loaded with wheat, 1880-1900
M000808 Bullock team moving a road roller, 1880-1900
R6160 Scenes in Hamilton, c1915 - asset 8
R4735 Dryblowing in Coolgardie, c1894
R3208 'Geeveston Saw Mills and wagon load', 1890s
R3222 Washing clothes in an iron tub, c1890s
R3377 'Kitchen at the old King Street bakery'
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This is a collection of 25 digital curriculum resources focusing on Australians at work around 1900. The resources are grouped into ten categories - major projects; primary industry; small business; the clothing industry; the post office; newspaper production; working with haulage animals; mining; logging; and working at home. The collection includes archival film footage, photographs and a painting. The highlight of the collection is a series of video clips showing men working for the Sydney Morning Herald.
