Wool sorting at Gilgandra, 1936

Wool sorting at Gilgandra, 1936

Description

This is a black-and-white photograph, measuring 21.3 cm x 16.2 cm, of four men skirting fleeces and classing wool at Berida Station near Gilgandra in New South Wales. They are using two long tables in a large shearing shed. The station manager's daughter, a shearing contractor and two shed hands are looking on. In the background a man is working at another sorting table. Fleeces waiting to be pressed are piled in the loft.

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