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Farmer dipping sheep

c. 1930, Photograph, B 49088

Farmer dipping sheep at Yalpara Station.

Pumping water

c. 1930, Photograph, B 49089

Pumping water on Yalpara Station.

Pulling scrub for sheep

c. 1930, Photograph, B 49093

Farmer pulling scrub for starving sheep at Yalpara Station.

Sports Day, McCoy's Well

c. 1900, Photograph, B 45805

Sports Day celebrations at McCoy's Well Station.

McCoy's Well

c. 1910, Photograph, B 45806

Stockyards at McCoy's Well Lake.

Water tanks, McCoy's Well

c. 1900, Photograph, B 45807

Water tanks.

Sports Day, McCoy's Well

c. 1900, Photograph, B 45808

Sports Day - Blacksmith's shop before riding events.

'Breaking in' a colt

c. 1930, Photograph, B 49081

Farmer, Hector MacDonald Bown 'breaking in' a colt at Yalpara Station.

H. M. Bown scooping sand

c. 1930, Photograph, B 49084

Leading farm hand, H.M. Bown, with horse drawn implement 'scooping sand at Yalpara Station.

Farmer with cart & horses

c. 1930, Photograph, B 49087

Farmer with cart and dogs setting out on a droving trip taking sheep up into the hills at Yalpara Station.

H. M. Bown with pet lambs

c. 1930, Photograph, B 49090

Farmer, Hector MacDonald Bown, with his pet lambs at Yalpara Station.

H.M. Bown stock riding

1926, Photograph, B 49091

Farmer Hector MacDonald Bown about to go stock riding.

Man holding dead fox and skin

c. 1930, Photograph, B 49098

Man holding a dead fox and its skin at Yalpara Station.

Discovery 'diprotodon' bones

1961, Photograph, B 49334

Site where diprotodon bones were discovered in the creek bed, 'Batt's Bore', at Yalpara Station. Man with the shovel is A.F. Bown.

Hector Bown on fence

c. 1925, Photograph, B 69470

Hector MacDonald Bown sitting on a fence that is almost covered by sand.

Bales of wool on truck and trailer

c. 1930, Photograph, B 69471

The Yaldara woolclip in bales on a truck and trailer outside the Yaldara Station shearing shed. Gordon or L.D. Miell standing on trailer. Two other men are sitting on top of the bales on the truck.

Hector Bown and children

c. 1930, Photograph, B 69475

Alec Bown, his sister and his father, Hector MacDonald Bown, at Yalpara Station.

Album of holiday photographs

Watson, Ivy L., c. 1930, Photograph, B 71588/1-25

Album of photographs taken by Ivy L. Watson of a holiday in the north and mid-north of South Australia. In some photographs (1, 6-7) the Bonds tour bus can be seen. See 'Contents' for details.

Pekina reservoir, South Australia

c. 1915, Photograph, PRG 280/1/12/125

Pekina reservoir, south of Orroroo, South Australia.

Cowell and Franklin Harbour, Eyre Peninsula

Trengove, Arthur M., 1900, Photograph, PRG 1480/7/1-194

Records of the Reverend Arthur M. Trengove comprising lantern slides and glass plate negatives, mainly of church buildings of the Eyre Peninsula region, with a focus on Cowell and the Methodist church, manse and scenery. There are also photographs of Maylands Methodist Church and Orroroo Methodist Church. Also includes some images of the Franklin Harbour hotel in Cowell, other buildings in the Eyre Peninsula and coastal jetty scenes, and some portraits of missionaries serving in the Eyre Peninsula circuit. Some images have legible (minimal) captions but most are without captions. See CONTENTS for more information and details of images.