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Please note that the commentaries on this wiki:world_gallery:layered_info:perspectives:museum:strangers:objects:1019073|cigarette card series discuss prevailing attitudes in Britain toward the peoples of the British Empire in 1927 and, thus, can reflect the often-racist opinions of the time. In reading them, you are invited to consider how attitudes and communication on questions of race and nationality in Britain have changed in the years since and continue to change.
If the gold miner (object 2011.45.3) entered the wilderness and returned with treasure, the "stock man" went one further, "squatting" on land and never returning. Ranchers commandeered great swathes of Australia in the nineteenth century, driving off or killing the indigenous population and fencing the land off to keep them out. The cattle brought wealth and prosperity to the ranchers and their investors in the cities of the coast, and as in Canada, they were seen as the pioneers of the Imperial frontier.
