A record of life on a sheep station at Coonamble, Western N.S.W. ca 1880-1900

Collection of albumen prints, photographer unknown, ca 1880-1900 of sheep properties, Billeroy, Coolbaggie and Terembone, between Coonamble and Dubbo, N.S.W.  Prints have been mounted onto board and probably a part of an album.

1. Coolbaggie Creek, 20 miles from Dubbo
2. Coolbaggie Creek
3. Aboriginal grave near Gilgandra. Carved tree in background.
4. Youie Jimmy – King of Terembone
5. Sam Hull – Aboriginal tracker
6. Bush post office. [A bush mailbox on Terembone allowing the mailman to deliver from his horse]
7. Lunch on the Castlereagh, May 19
8. Beefwood Tree, Couth’s paddock
9. Breakfast table, 14 May
10. Breakfast. [Joseph Siddins at the head of the dining table at Terembone]
11. Scrub in Couth’s paddock
12. Selector on … paddock
13. Big Plain Dam
14. The Big Plain
15. Rams, aged 3 years, purchased from Warrah
16. Ram hoggets, station hut
17. Aboriginal camp
18. Aboriginal Australians on Billeroy Station. [Aboriginal camp near Terembone Station, Youie Jimmie wearing the crescent shaped insignia of leadership issued by the administration]
19. Aboriginal Australians playing card game
20. Aboriginal camp
21. Conn’s Dam, Terembone 
22. Conn’s Dam, higher up
23. Stud ram hoggets, station hut
24. Stud ram hoggets, station hut
25. Home Dam, Terembone, near embankment
26. Oaks in scrub paddock, back of Home Dam
27. Men classing wool near river probably Terembone Station
28. Grape vine
29. Grave monument to Herbert Liddell Cortis, death 28 December 1885 (Carcoar, N.S.W.)
30. Sheep in paddock outside shearing shed
31. Farm beside river. [Terembone Station, the waterhole in the creek, buildings, vegetable garden and windlass for hauling water. In 1885 the homestead buildings were officially listed as ‘dwelling 10 rooms, kitchen 3 rooms, store, stable, cart shed, office, tool and saddle rooms, bachelor’s room, laundry and men’s cottage 4 rooms’]
32. Farm with outbuildings. [At the rear of the Terembone Station buildings]
33. Portrait of 3 unidentified men
34. Homestead with fence
35. 2 women, 1 man having tea in yard
36. Sitting room with woman reading
37. Horse and carriage with 2 women
38. Farm beside river probably Terembone Station
39. Farm beside river, man standing in boat probably at Terembone Station

A record of life on a sheep station at Coonamble, Western N.S.W. ca 1880-1900

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