Summary
One of 139 photographs in an album from World War I likely to have been taken by Captain Edward Albert McKenna. The photographs include the 7th Battalion training in Mena Camp, Egypt, and sight-seeing.
Image of a farmer ploughing a field with two-head of cattle pulling the wooden plough.
Description of Content
Figure in native dress with their back to the camera, steadying wooden contraption that appears to be being pulled through the dirt by the cattle in front of the figure. There is another figure with a donkey in the background. In the background is a raised landformation covered in vegetation.
Physical Description
Black and white silver gelatin photographic print.
More Information
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Collection Names
Returned and Services League (RSL) Collection, Military Memorabilia Collection
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Collecting Areas
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Acquisition Information
Donation from Mr J. Willis, circa 1986
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Photographer
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Place & Date Depicted
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Creator
Elizabeth (Lillie) M. McKenna, Malvern, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, circa 1918
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Format
Photograph, Black & White
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Inscriptions
Hand-written in ink on the support to the right of the photograph: 'Ploughing / with just / a wooden / stick.' Hand-written in pencil on the back of the photograph: 'This is the way they plough here / just with a wooden stick / (horizontal line)'
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Type of item
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Image Dimensions - Photograph album page
159 mm (Width), 195 mm (Height)
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Image Dimensions - Photograph
105 mm (Width), 80 mm (Height)
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