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Before bulk sugar, Mackay’s crop reached the ship as bags on bullock wagons. A line of teams waits outside the Adelaide Steamship Company’s shed, and a railway runs down the centre of the wharf. Three men in the foreground are scale. The mills around Mackay are already live as mill pins; this is the export berth. Tag sugar, port, wharf and rail.
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-21.1388, 149.1844
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1895
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Sugar Teams at the Mackay Wharf, ca.1895 - Industry and Infrastructure
Sugar teams at the Mackay wharf, ca.1895
1895
View of bullock teams transporting bags of sugar at the Mackay wharf in 1895, featuring the Adelaide Steamship Company shed and early rail infrastructure.
Before bulk sugar, Mackay’s crop reached the ship as bags on bullock wagons. A line of teams waits outside the Adelaide Steamship Company’s shed, and a railway runs down the centre of the wharf. Three men in the foreground are scale. The mills around Mackay are already live as mill pins; this is the export berth. Tag sugar, port, wharf and rail.
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