Quoting David Mann <[email protected]>:
I've now rearranged the photos a bit so they're grouped by location
(I've also grouped each state together). I have also tidied up a
handful of the captions. The ones I couldn't place are collected
near the end. I'm not sure about the Broughty Ferry one; as far as
I can tell that's in Scotland so how it came to be in this
collection is beyond me (It's in the middle of the second-last row).
http://www.multi.net.nz/empire/
I'm pretty sure you're right. When I viewed the previous set, I tried
to find a Broughty Ferry location in Australia without success - all
searches ended up in Scotland. The picture doesn't "look" like an
Australian scene either.
The "Better Farming Train" set interested me so I went Googling. It
seems that this operated in Victoria from 1924 "promoting the idea
that the land could be tamed and that it was the patriotic duty of
every farmer to increase his yields."
You might find the following link on the Victorian Energy & Earth
Resources site of some interest. Its Photo Gallery on the Better
Farming Train contains several images similar to those in your gallery
- so similar, in fact, that it's obvious that they came from the same
set of slides as yours. The last 7 images in your set are all part of
the "Better Farming Train" and those images all appear in the Energy &
Earth Resources' gallery.
http://www.energyandresources.vic.gov.au/about-us/publications/library/virtual-exhibition/better-farming-train
The 'Babcoon Festina' image is actually a 'demonstration of the
"Babcock" method for testing the butterfat content of milk.' The
title may be 'Babcock Testing' rather than Babcoon Festina.
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Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
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