The cane cutter, Childers, Queensland, 1955 [picture] / Jeff Carter
- Bib ID:
- 3104033
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Carter, Jeff, 1928-2010
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 1955
- 1 photograph : b&w ; image 37.9 x 27.8 cm., on sheet 40.3 x 30.4 cm.
- Series:
- Carter, Jeff, 1928-2010 . Jeff Carter collection of photographs, 1952-2002.
- Summary:
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"When the Kanaka trade was outlawed, white itinerant labour from the south flowed north to Queensland each year, to 'work like niggers'. Often wearing only shorts, barefooted and grimed by the fire-blackened cane. Pay was good but the work exhausting and sweaty in the tropical heat. After cutting, bundles of the heavy green canes were carried on the shoulder over rough ground to waiting miniature rail trolleys. These ran on temporary metal rails laid down across the burnt paddocks by the cane cutters. Now machines harvest the cane, but the spirit of the period is preserved in Ray Lawler's play "The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll." -- Description supplied by photographer.
- Notes:
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- Title supplied by photographer.
- Part of collection: Jeff Carter collection of photographs, 1952-2002.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-148669629
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Cane cutters
- Other authors/contributors:
- Carter, Jeff, 1928-2010
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- Copyright restrictions may apply.
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Jeff Carter collection of photographs, 1952-2002.
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2080 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Photograph
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 2010
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1955
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