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- Australian agricultural and rural life
- Life on the land
- First farms
- Macarthurs
- Berrys
- Wyndhams
- Australian Agricultural Company
- Squattocracy
- Station life
- Station stories
- Homesteading
- Working the land
- Settler’s guides and emigrant publications
- Learning the trade
- Looking after the land
- Natural disasters
- Pests
- Water management
- Rural communities
- Organisations and societies
- Country Women's Association
- Agricultural produce
- Livestock
- Australian wool
- Sheep shearing
- Crops, horticulture and viticulture
- Australian wheat
- Fruit industry
- Getting to market
The survival of the early colony depended on successful agriculture. This section tells a range of stories about Australia’s rural and regional development. Using early pastoral families' manuscripts to published agricultural journals and farming magazines, from early land grant maps to water conservation reports, from photographic documentation of country life to printed accounts of agricultural shows and regional events.
Australian agricultural and rural life

c.1860s
Anderson, P
Digital ID:
a1528203

ca. 1847-1852
T. Rider
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a3061002

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bcp_01243

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bcp_06010

ca. 1911-1916
Hazlewood, Rex
Digital ID:
a1528310

1930s?
Hood, Sam
Digital ID:
hood_06742

c.1930
Digital ID:
bcp_00414

1949
Bechervaise, J.
Digital ID:
a377002

1949
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a394001

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a2409001

1830
Rodius, Charles
Digital ID:
a928934

1937
Melbourne : Victorian Central Citrus Association
Digital ID:
a3003001

1930?
[Canberra : Canberra Dairy Society Ltd].
Digital ID:
a3031001

1950?
Leeton, N.S.W. : Rice Marketing Board for the State of N.S.W., [1950?] (Sydney : H.G. Nall.)
Digital ID:
a3006001

1935?
[Ballarat, Vic. : J.S. Vickery & Son]
Digital ID:
a2132001
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This story has been developed with the support of the State Library of NSW Foundation.
We would like to acknowledge the generosity of the Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation.