Grace Bros Hatboxes Size:XS Raw Material Conveyors at Ashio

Raw Material Conveyors at Ashio

closed after just eight years as Yubari's mining population collapsed

their metal frames blooming with rust

pallets and building materials sit across the concrete floor

Stone steps climb through dense overgrowth toward the Ishikiri-Yubari Shrine

Grace Bros Hatboxes Size:XS Raw Material Conveyors at AshioStacked Grace Bros. hatboxes beside a green canvas suitcase with metal latches, photographed in Moruya, New South Wales. Objects like these were the standard domestic storage of rural Australia for much of the twentieth century, long before fitted wardrobes reached the back country. Part of the Woolla series.