13 Vintage Pictures of Sheep Shearing - Modern Farmer

13 Vintage Pictures of Sheep Shearing

Vintage pictures from the Golden Age of sheep shearing.

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[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Man shearing a sheep in stall at headquarters of the San Emigdio Ranch, Kern County, Calif. C. 1890.[/mf_h5]
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[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Marking freshly shorn sheep. Malheur County, Oregon, ca. 1941.[/mf_h5]
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[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Sacks of wool at sheep shearing time on ranch in Malheur County, Oregon. Each sack holds about 500 pounds of wool. Ca. 1941.[/mf_h5]
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[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]View of shearing sheep in shed near Verde River Sheep Bridge, Spanning Verde River (Tonto National Forest), Cave Creek, Maricopa County, AZ, ca. 1954.[/mf_h5]
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[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Knox County, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Elmer Butter shearing sheep with electric clippers. Ca. 1942.[/mf_h5]
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[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Shearing sheep on ranch. In 1937, Oregon produced more that 17,000,000 pounds of wool, the average weight per fleece being about eight and a quarter pounds. Ca. 1941.[/mf_h5]
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[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Sheep and goat shearers sharpening a blade while at work on a ranch of rehabilitation borrower in Kimble County, Texas, ca. 1940.[/mf_h5]
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[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Sheep shearers and bags of wool in the background, Malheur County, Oregon, ca. 1941.[/mf_h5]
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[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Shearing sheep. Converse County, Wyoming, ca. 1936.[/mf_h5]
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[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Shearing sheep. Rosebud County, Montana, ca. 1939.[/mf_h5]
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[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]6 Mexican men shearing sheep, Isabel, South Dakota, ca. 1911.[/mf_h5]
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[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Sheep after shearing, Rosebud County, Montana, ca. 1939.[/mf_h5]
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[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Sheep in shearing pen. Rosebud County, Montana, ca. 1939.[/mf_h5]

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