Sleeper cutter, Barmah Forest, New South Wales,1952 [picture] / Jeff Carter
- Bib ID:
- 3105758
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Carter, Jeff, 1928-2010
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 1952
- 1 photograph : b&w ; image 26 x 26 cm., on sheet 30.5 x 40.3 cm.
- Series:
- Carter, Jeff, 1928-2010 . Jeff Carter collection of photographs, 1952-2002.
- Summary:
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"Mobile circular saws were then an innovation and mostly custom built by their operators. Later, commercially made Hargan and other marques became popular with sleeper and bridge timber cutters, also charcoal burners. Many early operators lacked safety helmets, eye and ear protection, even boots, some going bare-footed (like cane-cutters in Queensland). I rediscovered this man living in a hut in the Barmah forest in the mid 1990's and tried to interview him for the Oral History department of the NLA. The venture failed as he was virtually stone deaf, possibly as a result of working many years behind whining saws without ear muffs." -- 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-148672073
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Sleeper cutters
- Other authors/contributors:
- Carter, Jeff, 1928-2010
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This belongs to the Jeff Carter collection of photographs, 1952-2002.
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Created/Published Date is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Photograph
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1952
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