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Ostrich Farm, Watsons Bay c1910

Ostrich Farm, Watsons Bay c1910

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State Library of New South Wales

[a106360 / PXA 635, 937]

(Mitchell Library)

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Barracluff's Ostrich Farm

In 1889 the enterprising Joseph Barracluff and his wife Jane established an ostrich farm at South Head. Over the years Barracluff's farm became a well-known tourist destination where patrons could select feathers to be cut directly from the flock. The business thrived until the outbreak of World War I, when the demand for ostrich feathers declined.

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