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Sugar cane cutters
Large mounted photo found in Tasmania depicting sugar cane cutters in Queensland in the early 1900s. This work was hard and dangerous because of poisonous snakes and spiders but it paid well. The classic Australian play "Summer of the Seventeenth Doll" by Ray Lawler is about sugar cane cutters. The man with the bucket appears to be wearing a cooking apron and probably has food inside the rolled up cloth. The group may have been about to take a break. Note the metal mugs hanging from the shoulder of the man on the right. Large size available for viewing (recommended).
Sugar cane cutters
Large mounted photo found in Tasmania depicting sugar cane cutters in Queensland in the early 1900s. This work was hard and dangerous because of poisonous snakes and spiders but it paid well. The classic Australian play "Summer of the Seventeenth Doll" by Ray Lawler is about sugar cane cutters. The man with the bucket appears to be wearing a cooking apron and probably has food inside the rolled up cloth. The group may have been about to take a break. Note the metal mugs hanging from the shoulder of the man on the right. Large size available for viewing (recommended).