Diggers & Mining. Gold. Slide depicts lots of Chinese miners on their way to the gold fields. (Huyghue) The Overlanders. In the first six months of 1857, 14,486 Chinese landed at Guichen Bay; nearly all of them quietly overladed into Victoria. Markings: 6 994.GOL. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. Gold. ''Mount Macedon from the Black Forest 1855'' shows. Writing on picture Mount Macedon from the Black Forest. Signed James ? Depicts Black? Store with travellers many of them Chinese. The slide has blue pen markings on it. Markings: 7 994.GOL. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. Gold. (3) The thriftiness of the Chinese and their low standard of living made the whites afraid of cheap labour and eventual unemployment. (4) The rapid increase in their numbers led to a fear that the future of Victoria as a white colony was threatened. (There were about 42,000 Chinese in Victoria in 1859 - all men, comprising one in seven of the adult male population, In that year, between one-quarter and one-third of the diggers were Chinese.) Markings: 4 994.GOL. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide reads: But these under-estimate the actual numbers considerably. Other official estimates were: January, 1855 - 10,000. July, 1855 - 17,000. End of 1857 - 40,000. End of 1859 - 42,000. Practically all of those who came were to be found on the goldfields. Markings: 29. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: Chinese diggers at Bendigo, 1857. Slide shows Chinese panning for gold in the almost baron land of Bendigo. Possibly along side the Bendigo Creek. Markings: 28. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide reads: This act limited the number of Chinese that a ship could carry by any Victorian port; it imposed an entrance tax of 10 pound to be paid by the master of the ship on every Chinese he landed in Victoria; it established a fund for the maintenance and relief of Chinese immigrants; and it provided for the appointment of ''protector'' to look after the interests of the Chinese. Markings: 27. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide reads: The act of 1855 was, in practice , a failure, because the captains of ships engaged in the lucrative passenger and cargo trade with China dodged payment of the entrance fee by landing their Chinese passengers in South Australia, at Guichen Bay . . . Markings: 26. Used as a teaching aid.hanmounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide reads: Discovery by ''overlanding'' Chinese of the rich canteen load near Ararat led to a great rush to that field (1857). An anti-Chinese riot followed. Slide shows route that the Chinese would have walked. . . . Whence overlanded into Victoria. Markings: 25. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide reads on right: During the gold rush for many years afterwards, some government proclamations were issued in Chinese as well as in English. View of proclamation on left. (View of the original Dixon Gallery, Public Library of NSW) Markings: 24. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: Here is part of the front page of an English-Chinese news paper published in Ballarat in 1857. Markings: 23. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: This cartoon from Melbourne Punch (April, 1857) is entitled ''A Flood of Celestial Light pouring in upon the Diggings''. Slide shows a large group of Chinese travelling to their destination, most of them are on foot. Some onlookers. Markings: 22. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: The practical failure of the Act of 1856, and the fresh outburst of anti-Chinese feeling in the Buckland riots of 1857, led to Victorian Government to take further action in the latter year. (1) A residence fee was imposed on all Chinese in the colony (one pound per month - ultimately reduced, after Chinese protests, to four pound per year). (2) The co-operation of South Australia was sought, and , in 1857, the government of that colony passed a restriction act similar to the Victorian Act of 1855. Markings: 21. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: Has royal emblem. Anno Vicesimo Primo. Victoriae Reginae. No 3. An Act to make provision for levying a charge on Chinese arriving in South Australia. [Assented to, 19th November, 1857.] Be it enacted by his Excellency the Governor-in-Chief of South Preamble, Australia, by and with the advice of. . . . Markings: 20. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: Royal emblem, Lion and Unicorn. Victoria, Victoria Regine No. XLI An Act to regulate the residence of the Chinese Population in Victoria. (24th November, 1857. Whereas it is expedient to regulate and control the residence (the rest of document is not shown) Markings: 19. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: Subsequent Anti - Chinese Legislation In Australia Markings: 18hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields, diggers & mining. the chinese on the gold fields. slide: subsequent anti - chinese legislation in australia

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: In a Ballarat Mine C. 1867. Only a few were employed in gold mines, and they usually did only surface work, Why? Picture; depicts miners pushing a loaded trolley, many of them have a shovel in hand. Markings: 17 (smudged number). Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: Shows 3 Chinese mining for gold. (2) The Chinese were successful diggers, and this evoked jealousy . . . Markings: 16. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: Shows number of Chinese in Victoria from 1851 to 1947. After 1861 numbers of Chinese gradually decreased. Markings: 15. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: Shows stage coach overloaded with people and their belongings. Wording: This photograph shows a diggings party on a Cobb & Co. coach near Newstead c. 1870. Note European dress. Markings: 14. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: Chinese quarter, Ballarat, 1868. In the 1860s and 1870s many Chinese in Victoria persisted at gold digging. Slide shows township and Chinese along the creek looking for gold. Markings: 13. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: Many Chinese took up other occupations; some became successful market gardeners, fishermen, laundrymen, cooks, and sellers of tea and sugar (till near the end of the 19th century, both these commodities came from China). In Melbourne, they made fine cabinet makers; the first successful tobacco growers in Victoria were Chinese in the Ovens Valley. Markings: 12. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: The Chinese quarter in Little Bourke Street, Melbourne, dates from the gold era. Here is a scene in Little Bourke Street c1880. Shows a footbridge over creek many shoppers male and female including Chinese out shopping. Includes buildings and a large carriage in background. Markings: 11. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: Map of New South Wales. Chinese immigration by sea - N.S.W. 1856 - 896, 1857 - 327, 1858 - 12,096. Total number of Chinese in N.S.W. 1861 - 21,000. Riots of Lambing Flat, 1861. Act of 1861 the working out of alluvial fields solved the problem in N.S.W. Faced with a similar problem to that of Victoria, New South Wales passed, in 1861, a Chinese Immigration Restriction Act (like the Victorian Act of 1855). Markings: 10 994:LIF I. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: Chinese fishermen. Many Chinese fishermen were working at St. Kilda in the early 1860s Picture depicts Chinese fishermen hauling in the net. Markings: 4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: View of a Chinese market garden including buildings and gardeners . Titled: A Chinese marker garden c.1865. Markings: 8. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: But anti-Chinese agitation flared up again in 1870's - this time on the newly-discovered Queensland goldfields . . . Map on left is of Queensland: Palmer Goldfield, Hodgkinson gold field. In 1877, there were 17,000 Chinese on the Palmer field compared with 1,400 whites. Markings: 7. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: Aborigines landing their boat at the base of a cliff, some are in loin cloth, some pants, one pants and shirt (white). Markings: 6. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide:Chinese in North Queensland . . . . And in 1877 the Queensland government passed a restriction act. Chinese on the long journey to their destination, a camp site on the right, on the left they take shelter under a tree. Markings: 5, blue ink smuge on left of slide in tree. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The Chinese on the Gold Fields. Slide: From 1867 to 1877 there were no restrictions on Asiatic immigration in any Australian colony. The Chinese gradually merged into the community, enjoying a high reputation as industrious and law-abiding citizens. Markings: 4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. Gold. Photo of document: Victoria, Victoriae Regine. By His Excellency Sir Charles Hotham, Knight Commander of the most Honourable Military Order of the Bath. Captain-General and Govenor-in-Chief of Victoria, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c. No. XXXIX. In the Act to make provision for certain immigrants. [Assented to 12 June, 1855.] Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Victoria and Preamble, with the advice and the consent and the Legislative Council there of as Accordingly, the Victorian Government, in 1855, passed an act restricting Chinese immigration. Markings: 4 994.GOL. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields