A man wearing an apron standing in the kitchen on a shearing property. The shearers cook is ...

A man wearing an apron standing in the kitchen on a shearing property. The shearers cook is bending over the fire place and adding something to the large pots of food cooking over the log fire. Probably taken in the something region. Published in "On the Wool Track" in 1910 with the caption "The shearers' cook". One of a series of photographs taken by C. E. W. Bean during two trips he made in 1908 and 1909 to regional NSW as a journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald. The purpose of these trips was to research the wool industry of western NSW and the transportation and railway possibilities of the Darling River region. Photographs from the private collection of C. E. W. Bean held at AWM38 3DRL 6673.