1.2 Samuel Wadham on tour in rural Australia with his wife and son.
1.3 A man riding a horse through a country town, c 1955.
1.4 Jeparit. Wimmera–Mallee Pioneers Museum, 1973.
2.1 The rural idyll: feeding time for a pet sheep and calf on Christmas Day, 1927.
2.2 Large country family, ca.1905.
2.3 Nurse Nell Shelton with three infants in her care, near Wedderburn, Victoria, 1917.
3.1 The extent of Australia’s wheatlands at the end of the twentieth century.
3.2 Lachlan River, New South Wales.
3.3 Telling the wheatlands story. A mural in Condobolin’s main street.
4.1 ‘Deserted’ – a scene at Gippsland, c.1887.
4.3 Hume & Hovell Memorial, Kilmore, Victoria, erected in 1924.
5.1 Sketch map of the Wimmera River (not to scale).
5.2 ‘Ordered naturalness’: the Wimmera River at Horsham.
5.3 Annie’s Crossing near Duchembegarra.
5.4 The Wimmera River beyond Huddleston’s Weir.
5.5 Work begins on the River Project, July 1968.
7.1 JC Williamson’s production of ‘The Lawsons’, stage set, 1950s.
8.1 The clearing enterprise at Rocky Gully.
8.2 The ‘hi-ball’, an American technology used to clear the forest.
8.3 An advertisement by the Rural and Industries Bank, revealing an idealised pioneer manhood.
8.4 The masculine pursuit of hunting at Rocky Gully.
8.5 ‘The start of a new way of life’: husband and wife at tent town, Rocky Gully, 1951.
9.1 Cultivating a paddock on the Stephenson farm, 1930s Kurraca West.
9.2 Old bluestone cottage, Port Fairy.
10.1 The Western District of Victoria.
1.1 Amenities in Victorian and New South Wales farm households in the early 1940s.
10.1 The structure of business in Western District towns, 1890.