Description
This is a black-and-white 1890s photograph portraying about 12 men, presumed to be Chinese as some wear conical hats, manually laying sugar-cane cuttings, or setts, at regular intervals in long furrows in a large paddock on Hambledon Sugar Plantation near Cairns in Queensland. In the background are a mounted overseer supervising their work and two horsedrawn ploughs tilling more furrows in the extensive field.
Acknowledgements
| Credits | Reproduced courtesy of State Library of Queensland
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| Creator | Unidentified |
| Identifiers | State Library of Queensland image number 70213
TLF resource R8179 |
| Source | State Library of Queensland, http://www.slq.qld.gov.au |
