Three black and white photographs showing the 100,000th bale of wool for the season of 1956-57 being unloaded, entering store and being checked and weighed."Younghusband Limited Melbourne 100,000th Bale. Receiving the 100,000th bale of wool for the 1956-57 season. On the 11th June 1957, the company at Melbourne received its 100,000th bale for the season. This being the first occasion on which 100,00 bales or more have been received. The Bale branded MERWIN was consigned by the Merwin Pastoral Co. Pty.Ltd. Moulamien NSW. This pictorial record shows the bale being unloaded. Entering store and being checked and weighed." merwin, younghusband limited melbourne, melbourne, wool, 1956, 1957, bale

Bail Elevator loading hay bales from truck c1955Truck and machinery stacking rectangular Straw Hay BalesF W Moodie, North Plains, Stawellfarming, harvesting

"Step-by-step standard bale markings' - Australian Wool Corporation. Amongst items collected in Australian Wool Corporation folder (W6052)."Step-by-step standard bale markings' - Australian Wool Corporation. Amongst items collected in Australian Wool Corporation folder (W6052).woolclassing - objective measurement wool marketing wool - measurement wool sales sheep stations - management, australian wool corporation, wool clip preparation, woolclassing - objective measurement, wool marketing, wool - measurement, wool sales, sheep stations - management

This stencil was used as a depot identification stamp for the transportation of wool bales. Wool bales marked with C00 BOMBAY would have been transported to India by sea.Wool bale export stencil - C00 BOMBAY BALE NO.C00 BOMBAY BALE NO.wool - transportation, wool sales, wool class, wool classers

This stencil was used as a depot identification stamp for the transportation of wool bales. Wool bales marked with SUB DEPOT ABBASSIA EGYPT would have been transported to Egypt by sea.Wool bale export stencil - NO 2. SUB DEPOT ABBASSIA EGYPT BALE NO.NO 2. SUB DEPOT ABBASSIA EGYPT BALE NO.wool - transportation, wool sales, wool class, wool classers

rural life, peopleCopy of B/W Photograph, Shearing at "Larundel" c 1900, shearers standing around a bale of wool outside shedbuninyong, larundel, shearers, wool

Hay bale saws were a common agricultural tool. Ed Nolt, a Dutch resident of Pennsylvania, USA, invented the prototype for the small square baler back in the 1930s. His patent was purchased and mass produced during the 1940s. These balers quickly spread throughout the world and became a common agricultural machine. The hale bale saw was used to cut up the bales when distributing feed to livestock. As modern agricultural production has turned more to the use of large round bales, these small saws have become obsolete. This saw was used by a farmer in North Barnawatha approximately 18 kilometres from Wodonga, Victoria.This saw is representative of the agricultural tools in the mid to late 20th century.A metal saw with 2 wooden handles. The saw has a very coarse serrated edge. One of the handles is parallel to the blade, and the other handle is perpendicular to the blade.agricultural tools, hay bale saws, north east victoria

‘The Art of the Japanese Package’ was an exhibition that toured to 10 Australian and 11 New Zealand public galleries in 1979 and 1980. The touring exhibition comprised 221 objects of traditional Japanese packaging which extended from ceramics, wood and paper to woven fibre containers. At the conclusion of the tour, The Japan Foundation and the Crafts Board of the Australia Council donated the vast majority of the exhibition to the Ararat Gallery for its permanent collection. Combining the natural qualities of bamboo, paper and straw with delicate craftsmanship, these unique objects express Japanese aesthetics as applied through fibre crafts. In Japan, the qualities and traits of natural materials are exploited rather than hidden. The texture of straw, the septa of bamboo are not concealed but lovingly incorporated into the whole. In 1979 Hideyuki Oka, curator of ‘The Art of the Japanese Package’ wrote: “In no way self-conscious or assertive, these wrappings have an artless and obedient air that greatly moves the modern viewer. They are whispered evidence of the Japanese ability to create beauty from the simplest products of nature. They also teach us that wisdom and feeling are especially important in packaging because these qualities, or the lack of them, are almost immediately apparent. What is the use of a package if it shows no feeling?” The descriptions of the featured objects were written by Hideyuki Oka, curator of ‘The Art of the Japanese Package’, 1979.Gift of the Japan-Australia Foundation and the Crafts Board of the Australia Council, 1981Miniature copies of old-style rice bales are fashioned of reed (and tied with the same material) to serve as packages for sweets from the city of Saidaiji, near Okayama City. The material is appropriate, for Okayama is famous as a source of reed for making the floor mats called tatami. The handsome label, made of dyed paper, is fastened to the package with mizuhiki, the cords traditionally tied around ceremonial gifts. - Professor Hideyuki Oka, curator.japanese art, japanese packaging, tsutsumi, gift giving

Auction catalogue of wool bales held by Dennys, Lascelles Limited, on Tuesday 23 April 1929.Auction catalogue of wool bales held by Dennys, Lascelles Limited, on Tuesday 23 April 1929.W.M. Bell 14/17 Beauford 3 baleswool sales - auction system, dennys, lascelles limited, bell, mr w. m.

This stencil was used as a depot identification stamp for the transportation of wool bales. Wool bales marked with DEPOT SIDINGS KASR.EL NIL RARRACKS CAIRO EGYPT would have been transported to Egypt by sea.Wool bale export stencil - 0/0. ORDNANCE DEPOT SIDINGS KASR.EL NIL RARRACKS CAIRO EGYPT0/0. ORDNANCE DEPOT SIDINGS KASR.EL NIL RARRACKS CAIRO EGYPT BALE Nowool - transportation, wool sales, wool class, wool classers

"Grip" bale fasteners,The Hurst & Hughes Pty Ltd, 35 Skene Street, Geelong, Victoria. Donated from the estate of the donors' father who had an involvement through the scouting movement with the Hurst family who invented bale clips."Grip" bale fasteners,The Hurst & Hughes Pty Ltd, 35 Skene Street, Geelong, Victoria."Grip" Bale Fasteners/ The Hurst & Hughes Pty Ltd, 35 Skene Street, Geelong, Victoria....shearing wool bales, hurst and hughes pty ltd, wool bale clips, hurst, mr harold e., shearing, wool bales

Information booklet about the economics of wool grwoing, produced by the Australian Wool Board.Information booklet about the economics of wool grwoing, produced by the Australian Wool Board.agriculture - industrial relations, australian wool board, woods, mr george

“Swinton” workers with horses and Wool bail in front of large wooden shearing shed. Horse on right has both front legs on a box. Property owned by Gray Family.Large group of males outside a weather board building with two horses.glenorchy

Gift of the artist, 1929

The Pickwick Club of Kew was founded by local residents in 1897. In 1904 it produced its first publication - Pickwick Portfolio Vol.1 No.1 - for which the local artist and member Alice Marion Ellen Bale (1875-1955) designed this frontispiece. The frontispiece was printed in Volume 1/1 and adapted for Vol.1/2 in 1912. Each member of the Club adopted a pseudonym from a work by Charles Dickens. Alice Bale is recorded in the 1912 edition as using the name Mark Tapley, a character in Martin Chuzzlewit (Dickens, 1842). Gift of the Friends of the KHS Collection, 2022Frontispiece, created in watercolour and ink on artist's paper, for the first edition of the Pickwick Portfolio of 1904 by the Kew Pickwick Club. Signed lower left by Mark Tapley, the pseudonym within the Club of the artist A.M.E. Bale.Lower left in pencil "Mark Tapley" (pseudonym). Initials above to the right AMEB (Alice ME Bale)a m e bale, pickwick clubs, pickwick club of kew

Brown, hard, cloth covered book of 121 pages plus advertisements. Chapters include steam pumps; pumps and injectors for feeding steam boilers; hand pumps; hydraulic rams; pumps for specific duties; pump valves; suction and delivery pumps; rules and notes relating to pumps. mining, pumps, pumping, powis bale, boilers, steam, hydrology, valves, windmills, waterworks, pipes

Book has grey cover with black print, title and author's surname printed on frontnon-fictiontextbook for nurses re the care of patients with tuberculosistubeculosis, nursing, nursing-education

Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Mack Jost, 1990

Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Mack Jost, 1990

Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Mack Jost, 1997

One of fifty one photographs originally in a photo album found in the National Wool Museum’s office. The album was water damaged and the images were removed for conservation. The images follow the process of wool. Beginning in a sheep paddock and finishing as a folded fabric. It includes all the steps in between in this process, including shearing, transporting, selling, washing and the many different steps in the process of turning a single thread of wool into fabric.Black and white image showing bales of wool stored in the hold of a ship. Three men are standing amongst the bales.AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL PUBLICITY / ASSOCIATION / FLINDERS STREET RAILWAY BUILDING, / MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA / W42. Looking down into the hold of a / ship where the bales are stored / for transport overseas.wool industry, working life, women, boonoke station, farming, sheep farming, agriculture, sheep stations, transport, wool processing, shearing, textile industry, wool

This stencil was used as a classification stamp for the transportation of wool bales. The stamp would have been used to paint numbers onto wool bales.Wool bale stencil - 12345678901234567890wool sales, wool transportation

This stencil was used as a classification stamp for the transportation of wool bales. The stamp would have been used to paint letters onto wool bales.Wool bale stencil - ABCDEFGHABCDEFGHwool sales, wool transportation

This stencil was used as a classification stamp for the transportation of wool bales. The stamp would have been used to paint letters onto wool bales.Wool bale stencil - IJKLNMOPIJKLNMOPwool sales, wool transportation

One of fifty one photographs originally in a photo album found in the National Wool Museum’s office. The album was water damaged and the images were removed for conservation. The images follow the process of wool. Beginning in a sheep paddock and finishing as a folded fabric. It includes all the steps in between in this process, including shearing, transporting, selling, washing and the many different steps in the process of turning a single thread of wool into fabric.Black and white image showing two men weighing a bale of wool.AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL PUBLICITY / ASSOCIATION / FLINDERS STREET RAILWAY BUILDING, / MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA / W5 / W5. Weighing bales.wool industry, working life, women, boonoke station, farming, sheep farming, agriculture, sheep stations, transport, wool processing, shearing, textile industry, wool

These bale measuring rulers were used to calculate bale sizes when loading in ships hold.Obsolete tool is of historical significance to explain past practicesTimber measuring ruler for measuring dimensions of bales being loaded and stacked in ships hold. Outer arms are extendable to suit bale widthsIllegibleinstrument, bale measuring ruler, cargo handling

This stencil was used as a location stamp for the transportation of wool bales. Jagatda municipality in India. Wool bales marked JAGATDAL would have been transported to Jagatdal by sea.Wool bale stencil - JAGATDALJAGATDALwool sales, wool transportation, wool export