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South Sea Islander labourer in the sugar cane fields at Bingera, about 1898

South Sea Islander labourer dressed in men's working clothing and wearing a hat. The photographer was probably Henry William Mobsby. Henry William Mobsby travelled to the Bundaberg area with some government officials while they inspected the Bingera Sugar Plantation.

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John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland Neg: 2252

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