[RIVER MURRAY] Clearing the land; digging an irrigation channel; harvesting wine grapes; view of a rural property with windmill pump. Renmark district, South Australia, late 1890s.

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Group of 4 (four) printing-out-paper print photographs, in panoramic format, each 100 x 200 mm; versos all wet-stamped in violet H. Norman Rossell, Photographer, Renmark , three have the photographer s pencilled sequence number, and one showing workers with a steam engine clearing the land is annotated (by Rossell?): The trees in background are Mallee scrub. The roots are being pulled out by wire rope attached to engine ; the latter print has a closed tear just left of centre, and is further endorsed verso Torn when received ; otherwise, all of the prints are in very good condition (unmounted). Trove locates no photographs by Rossell in Australian institutional collections. From Rossell s obituary in The Chronicle (Adelaide), 12 November 1897: Mr. Henry Norman Rbssell, highly respected settler of Renmark, died in the district hospital on Monday at the age of 67. He had been in indifferent health for over 12 months, but would not relinquish his duties until a few days ago. He was the only son of Mr. H. A. RosselI, Sheffield, England, with whom he and his mother arrived in Renmark to take up horticultural interests in 1892, in the time of the Chaffey settlement. He first held a 10-acre block, but this area was considerably increased upon his succeeding to his father s and mother s holdings, and at the time of his death he was one of the largest individual holders of irrigated land in the settlement. A substantial area of his irrigated land was devoted to fodder growing for the

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