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El Dorado Museum Association Inc.
Photograph - Digital Image - Sister Helen Eliza Milne, c1914 - 1918
... el dorado...El Dorado Museum Association Inc. 136 Main Street El Dorado ...Milne, Helen Eliza Ranks Held: Sister, Staff Nurse DOB: 1888 Birth Place: Carlton, Victoria, Australia DOD: 19 April 1961 Final Rank: Sister Unit: Australian Army Nursing Service Places: Carlton, Springvale First World War, 1914-18world war one, first world war, wwi, australian army nursing service, nurses, sisters, nursing, care, women, el dorado, eldorado -
El Dorado Museum Association Inc.
Photograph - Digital Image - Private Leslie G. McLaughlin, c1914 - 1918
... el dorado...El Dorado Museum Association Inc. 136 Main Street El Dorado ...McLaughlin, Leslie Gordon Service number: 2146 Final rank: Private Australian Imperial Forces First World War, 1914-1918 Date of embarkation: 09 March 1916first world war, world war one, wwi, australian imperial force, aif, soldiers, men, el dorado, eldorado -
El Dorado Museum Association Inc.
Photograph - Digital Image - Private Edward H. Culph, c1914 - 1918
... el dorado...El Dorado Museum Association Inc. 136 Main Street El Dorado ...Culph, Edward Heathcote Service Number: 1447 Final rank: Private First World War, 1914-1918 5 Infantry Battalion - 1 to 12 Reinforcements (December 1914 - November 1915) Date of embarkation: 02 February 1915, Melbourne Ship Embarked on: HMAT Clan McGillivray A46first world war, world war one, wwi, australian imperial forces, aif, soldiers, men, milawa, el dorado -
El Dorado Museum Association Inc.
Photograph - Digital Image - Private James W. Connor, c1914 - 1918
... el dorado...El Dorado Museum Association Inc. 136 Main Street El Dorado ...Connor, James Wilfred Service number: 1636 Rank: Private 6 Infantry Battalion - 1 to 9 Reinforcements (December 1914 - September 1915) First World War, 1914-1918 Date of Embarkation: 19 February 1915, Melbourne Ship Embarked on: HMAT Runic A54first world war, world war one, wwi, australian imperial force, aif, soldiers, men, el dorado, eldorado -
El Dorado Museum Association Inc.
Photograph - Digital Image - Charles Allan
... el dorado...El Dorado Museum Association Inc. 136 Main Street El Dorado ...Charles Allenfirst world war, world war one, wwi, australian imperial force, aif, el dorado, eldorado, soldiers, men -
El Dorado Museum Association Inc.
Photograph - Digital Image - William Dunstan
... el dorado...El Dorado Museum Association Inc. 136 Main Street El Dorado ...William Dunstanfirst world war, wwi, world war one, australian imperial force, aif, soldiers, men, el dorado, eldorado -
El Dorado Museum Association Inc.
Photograph - Digital Image - Driver George W. McLaughlin, c1914 - 1918
... el dorado...El Dorado Museum Association Inc. 136 Main Street El Dorado ...McLaughlin, George William Service Number: 10308 Rank: Driver 10 FCE [Field Company Engineers] (June 1916) First World War, 1914-1918 Date of Embarkation: 20 June 1916, Melbourne Ship Embarked On: HMAT Runic A54first world war, world war one, wwi, australian imperial force, aif, soldiers, men, el dorado, eldorado -
El Dorado Museum Association Inc.
Photograph - Digital Image - Graeme Ranson
... El Dorado...El Dorado Museum Association Inc. 136 Main Street El Dorado ...Graeme Ransonfirst world war, world war one, wwi, australian imperial force, aif, el dorado, eldorado, soldiers, men -
El Dorado Museum Association Inc.
Photograph - Digital Image
... el dorado...El Dorado Museum Association Inc. 136 Main Street El Dorado ...Four men rescued from McEvoy Mine, 1895.mcevoy mine, mining accident, men, miners, eldorado, el dorado -
El Dorado Museum Association Inc.
Photograph - Digital Image
... El Dorado...El Dorado Museum Association Inc. 136 Main Street El Dorado ...McEvoy Miners, c1895.Poster on wall, 'SPORTS' and '£170' only visible textminers, mining, mcevoy mine, men, beards, sports, el dorado, eldorado -
El Dorado Museum Association Inc.
Photograph - Digital Image
... el dorado...El Dorado Museum Association Inc. 136 Main Street El Dorado ...Rankins Almond Orchard, later Pyles and named Tarrangower, Cocks Pioneer Ponds.orchard, mine, el dorado, eldorado, cocks pioneer -
El Dorado Museum Association Inc.
Photograph - Digital Image
... el dorado...El Dorado Museum Association Inc. 136 Main Street El Dorado ...St Augustines Church.church, religion, buildings, el dorado, eldorado -
El Dorado Museum Association Inc.
Photograph - Digital Image
... el dorado...El Dorado Museum Association Inc. 136 Main Street El Dorado ...St Judes c1937.church, religion, buildings, el dorado, eldorado -
El Dorado Museum Association Inc.
Photograph - Digital Image
... el dorado...El Dorado Museum Association Inc. 136 Main Street El Dorado ...Replica of Reid's Hut.Digital image copied from a black and white photograph of a log hut on the back of a flat-bed truckhut, house, truck, ute, el dorado, eldorado, vehicle, transport -
El Dorado Museum Association Inc.
Photograph - Digital Image
... el dorado...El Dorado Museum Association Inc. 136 Main Street El Dorado ...Mulls Bridge, from Daddy Simpsons Album.Digital image copied from a black and white photograph of a bridge over a creek joining an unsealed road leading to a house on a rise overlooking the bridge.bridge, creek, el dorado, eldorado -
Federation University Historical Collection
Booklet, The School of Mines Ballarat: A Statement of the Objects and Present Resources of the School, 1873, 1873
... el dorado gold mining company... of canterbury gold mining company egerton mining company el dorado gold ...The Ballarat School of Mines was the first School of Mines in Australia and was established in 1870. 22 page booklet titles 'The Ballarat School of Mines: A Statement of the Objects and Resources of the School.' The book has a number of illustrations including the interior of the Ballarat School of Mines Laboratory, and the former Ballarat Circuit Court House. It includes a statement of the formation, progress, and present position of the School of Mines, Ballaarat. The image of the Ballarat School Mines Assay Room shows assay furnaces, crucibles, chimney, and teacher Joseph Flude on the far right. This room is now is a building known as the 'Old Chemistry Building'. Plan and elevation of the new Metallurgical Laboratory and Proposed Chemical Laboratory is depicted.On front cover "Recorded in M-A" "1873"ballarat school of mines, assay, courthouse, joseph flude, crucible, furnace, flude, warrington rogers, brough smyth, harrie wood, wood, james bickett, bickett, redmond barry, somerville learmonth, metallurgy, chemistry, laboratory, examinations, mining engineer, assayer, inorganic chemistry, underground managers, captains of shift, engieners, enginedrivers, louis balhausen, james campbell, l.s. christie, j.j. casey, alexander dempster, g. higinbotham, james martin, alexander millan, malcolm morrison, band of hope and albion, city of ballarat mining company, city of canterbury gold mining company, egerton mining company, el dorado gold mining company, golden reef gold mining company, happy valley company, hope quartz mining company, long tunnel gold mining company walhalla, hopewell quartz mining company, imperial quartz mining company, student numbers, fees, magdala quartz mining company stawell, mariners and sloane's quartz mining company, new north clunes company, park company, temperence quartz company, tookey quartz company new zealand, walhalla gold mining company, matthew seal, harrie woodmuseum, duke of cornwall claim, john lynch, robert m. sergeant, engineers, f.w. niven, william henry barnard, ballarat school of mines museum, museum, ballarat school of mines library, donations of specimens, mining -
El Dorado Museum Association Inc.
Photograph - Digital Image
... Main Street view South Mackay Street, El Dorado....El Dorado Museum Association Inc. 136 Main Street El Dorado ...Main Street view South Mackay Street, El Dorado.bottom left 'Main St. Eldorado' ; bottom middle 'Thelma Studio WANGARATTA'eldorado, mackay street eldorado, main street eldorado, star hotel, star hotel eldorado -
The Beechworth Burke Museum
Photograph, 1907-8
... N.L was one of El Dorado's two largest open cut sluicing mines... N.L was one of El Dorado's two largest open cut sluicing mines ...The photo from 1907-8 is a sepia print, depicting a small valley with building at base. There are flumes visible above areas of water, trees on hills and a few small cottages on the hillside. Cock's Pioneer Gold & Tin Sluicing Co NZ No 2 Site. The photo was taken of Matthews Gully looking west. Sluicing was undertaken in the area from 1900 to 1942 with some short breaks between these periods. The image depicts a location mined by Cocks Pioneer Gold and Tin Sluicing Company (as recorded on the annotation on the card mount) The Cocks Pioneer Gold and Tin Mines N.L was one of El Dorado's two largest open cut sluicing mines of the 20th Century. The other was named the Cocks El Dorado Gold Dredging Company. The Cocks Pioneer Mines operated from 1901 until 1941 and found a total of 117,378 ounces of Gold and 1,673 tones of tin concentrates over these years. The Cocks company was formed in 1898 and operated until 1941. Open cut sluicing involved the use of high-powered hoses which used the centrifugal sand pump system (known as hydraulic sluicing) which broke down the soil which was then processed for gold and other precious metals. From 1914 , four years after this image was captured, the company reformed to Cocks Pioneer Gold and Tin Mines NL (previously it was known as Cocks Pioneer Sluicing Co) and undertook large scale sluicing operations until 1929 and then 1934-1941. El Dorado is located on Reedy Creek and is surrounded by forested country to the north and east. It is 20 km east of Wangaratta in Victoria's regional north-east. John Cock was the son of a Cornish minor who arrived in El Dorado in 1858. Cock founded his gold and tin mining company which ran successfully for many years in the El Dorado region. It was an open cut sluicing company because of the abandonment of underground mining after this was deemed too dangerous. In 1935 Cock's El Dorado Company commissioned the floating dredge which is still visible in El Dorado today. The dredge was built by the Thompson engineering works, Castlemaine, and weighed over 2,000 tones and today has a place on the Victorian Registers of historic buildings. Interestingly, the name El Dorado does not derive from the gold in the region, but from the Barambogie pastoral run completed by William Baker in 1840-1841. Gold was discovered in El Dorado 1854 but the gold was too deep for individual prospectors to find, it required the use of heavy machinery.The search for gold is ingrained into the history of Victoria and therefore, images like this one which portray an open cut sluicing site can reveal important information for society and technology for the date when the photograph was taken. This image is of important historical significance for its ability to convey information about sluicing and the methods used to find gold in 1910. It also shows a location where sluicing was undertook which provides insight into the impact of sluicing on the environment at a time when it was done. This image is important for current research into the history of El Dorado, a small regional location near Wangaratta in Victoria's North East. Therefore, this image has the capacity to be beneficial for research into society and the motivations of those living and working in this region during this period and therefore, has social significance. The Beechworth Burke Museum has additional images relating to gold sluicing and El Dorado which can be analysed and studied alongside images like this one.Sepia coloured rectangle photograph printed on gloss photographic paper Reverse: 1997. 2613/ A02613/ No2 site/ Matthews Gully/ Cocks Pioneer G&T. ?? Co NZ/ No2 Site looking West/ 1907-8/ (7)sluicing, hydraulic sluicing, 1907, 1908, mining, cock's pioneer gold & tin sluicing co nz, nz, site no 2, matthews gully, west, valley, building, cottages, hillside, trees, water, gold and tin mine -
The Beechworth Burke Museum
Photograph, Late 1900s
... of 5 locations: Beechworth, Stanley, El Dorado, Hurdle Flat... of 5 locations: Beechworth, Stanley, El Dorado, Hurdle Flat ...This photograph dating to the late 1900s depicts the entrance to a reef mine the in Beechworth division. The image depicts two men outside the entrance, which is covered by a hut, where one is standing near a mine cart. The mine car was used to haul soil from the mine. The Beewchworth divison consisted of 5 locations: Beechworth, Stanley, El Dorado, Hurdle Flat and Stony Creek. These locations were set up due to speculative fever that more gold could be found. In places such as El Dorado, Beechworth and Stanley there was profit, however Hurdle Flat and Stonry Creek, gold could not be found in the quantities that was required. By 1880 the Beechworth division was in depression due to the reserves being used up. However, in spite of the depression mining was continued until the late 20th Century.The search for gold is ingrained into the history of Victoria and therefore, images like this one which portray an open cut sluicing site can reveal important information for society and technology for the date when the photograph was taken. This image is of important historical significance for its ability to convey information about reef mining in the late 1900s. It also shows a location where reef mining was undertook which provides insight into the impact of reef mining on the environment at a time when it was done. This image is important for current research into the history of Beechworth , a town in Victoria's north-east. Therefore, this image has the capacity to be beneficial for research into society and the motivations of those living and working in this region during this period and therefore, has social significance. The Beechworth Burke Museum has additional images relating to reef mining and Beechworth which can be analysed and studied alongside images like this one.Sepia coloured retangular photograph printed on newspaper.Reverse: 7813beechworth, beechworth division, mining, reef mining, gold, gold mining, 1990 -
The Beechworth Burke Museum
Photograph - Aerial Survey, 5/9/1947
... Tarrawinge, Dederang, Kergunyah North, Kergunyah, Yackandandah, El... Tarrawinge, Dederang, Kergunyah North, Kergunyah, Yackandandah, El ...This image is an Aerial Survey, Key Diagram of Beechworth and surrounding area. Issued by Department of Lands and Survey, Victoria in 1947. Photographed at an average height of 12300 feet above sea level, areas depicted are; Beechworth, Stanley, Bruarong, Baranduda, Muagegonga, Myrtleford, Everton, Wooragee North Tarrawinge, Dederang, Kergunyah North, Kergunyah, Yackandandah, El-Dorado, Barambogie, Murmungee, Barwidgee, Oxley, CarraragarmungeeBlack and white rectangular photograph. Image is printed on matt photographic paper and has a white un-printed border. Obverse: AERIAL SURVEY, KEY DIAGRAM OF PHOTOGRAPHS, APPROXIMATE SCALE OF MILES / DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND SURVEY VICTORIA 5.9.1947. BEECHWORTH 792 ZONE 7. Reverse: BMM7010.1 (written in pencil) aerial survey, beechworth, burke museum, department of lands and survey, victoria, 1947 -
El Dorado Museum Association Inc.
Photograph - Digital Image
... El Dorado Museum Association Inc. 136 Main Street El Dorado ...Steven's (Stevensons) Dam after breaking. -
El Dorado Museum Association Inc.
Photograph - Digital Image
... El Dorado Museum Association Inc. 136 Main Street El Dorado ...Rankins Orchard and Sluicing Ponds, c1930s.mining, gold, tin, sluicing, orchard, farming -
El Dorado Museum Association Inc.
Photograph - Digital Image
... El Dorado Museum Association Inc. 136 Main Street El Dorado ...Wangaratta Base Hospital staff early 1900s.wangaratta, hospital, nurses, men, women -
El Dorado Museum Association Inc.
Photograph - Digital Image
... El Dorado Museum Association Inc. 136 Main Street El Dorado ...Charity Day, Wangaratta, 1914.Digital image copied from a black and white photograph of a person dressed in Scottish outfit (kilt, tam-o-shanter cap) seated in buggy harnessed to a goat, surrounded by crowd of onlookers including two children dressed as jockeys (one wearing number 25)Captions written and printed on photograph 'One of the [?] Charity Carnival', 'WANGARATTA 12/8/14', 'Thelma Studio'wangaratta, goat, race, charity carnival, wangaratta charity carnival, goat race, scottish outfit, animals -
El Dorado Museum Association Inc.
Photograph - Digital Image
... El Dorado Museum Association Inc. 136 Main Street El Dorado ...Young's Butcher ShopDigital image copied from black and white photograph three women and a girl standing in front of a large building -
Mrs Aeneas Gunn Memorial Library
Book, Patrick Pringle, Stand and deliver : the story of the highwaymen, 1951
... not sought the El Dorado of absolute truth. We have gone back ...he true story of the highwaymen has never been written, nor can it be. The chroniclers were slavishly faithful to their authorities--flatteringly so, in fact; for these authorities consisted of a lot of chapbooks, broadsheets, penny dreadfuls and twopenny bloods, "dying confessions" that had come in for a good deal of posthumous editing, and the contemporary gutter Press--which was even more unreliable then than it is today. Many of these 'authorities' were so contradictory that the truth-at-all-costs chroniclers left out some of the best bits of highway lore in their vain attempts to keep faithful to their ridiculous principles.Our own ambition is more modest. We have not sought the El Dorado of absolute truth. We have gone back to the same sources that the chroniclers used--and we have taken pains to ignore the latter gentlemen whenever contemporary reports are still extant. We have not moralized, like the chroniclers, nor have we embellished, like the novelists. We have added nothing--but we have taken away a good deal. We have tried to use our discretion in selection, and our judgment in discrimination between contradictory versions of the same events. Since it was impossible to be faithful to the letter, we have tried to recapture the spirit of the Age of Highwaymen. Collapse summaryIndex, ill, p.287.non-fictionhe true story of the highwaymen has never been written, nor can it be. The chroniclers were slavishly faithful to their authorities--flatteringly so, in fact; for these authorities consisted of a lot of chapbooks, broadsheets, penny dreadfuls and twopenny bloods, "dying confessions" that had come in for a good deal of posthumous editing, and the contemporary gutter Press--which was even more unreliable then than it is today. Many of these 'authorities' were so contradictory that the truth-at-all-costs chroniclers left out some of the best bits of highway lore in their vain attempts to keep faithful to their ridiculous principles.Our own ambition is more modest. We have not sought the El Dorado of absolute truth. We have gone back to the same sources that the chroniclers used--and we have taken pains to ignore the latter gentlemen whenever contemporary reports are still extant. We have not moralized, like the chroniclers, nor have we embellished, like the novelists. We have added nothing--but we have taken away a good deal. We have tried to use our discretion in selection, and our judgment in discrimination between contradictory versions of the same events. Since it was impossible to be faithful to the letter, we have tried to recapture the spirit of the Age of Highwaymen. Collapse summary brigands and robbers, highwaymen - history -
Victorian Harness Racing Heritage Collection at Lord's Raceway Bendigo
Memorabilia - Silver trophy, Mother Courage, 1999 Lawn Derby Award, 3yo Pacing Filly of the Year
... Australian Oaks/ Prelude and Final Oceania El Dorado 3yo Fillies/ 3yo ...Mother Courage (Stoneridge Scooter Imp P 1.50.8 - Talk To Me Vic P 1.59.6 (What's Next)) Bay Mare. Foaled 1995 (3rd Foal) Breeder/Owner: Castle Family Pty Ltd. Trainer B Morgan. Mother Courage raced from 1998 (2yo) through to 2003 (7yo). Career: 30 wins 19 seconds 9 thirds 81 starts $462,520 1.56.9 Winning Drivers: JJ Caldow (27) BR Gath (3). Won on 8 Tracks: Moonee Valley (14) Ballarat (6) Bendigo (2) Horsham (2) Maryborough (2) Kilmore (2) Hamilton (1) Mildura (1)1999 Lawn Derby Award for 3yo Pacing Filly of the Year won by Mother Courage. 3yo Season record 12 wins 4 seconds 2 thirds 19 starts $219,010 1.58.6 Australian Oaks/ Prelude and Final Oceania El Dorado 3yo Fillies/ 3yo Gold Chalice/ Vic Oaks/ Horsham Oaks Trial/ Heat and Semi Final Vicbred Super Sires 3yo Fillies/ Heat & Final Hamilton Vicbred.Globe Shaped Trophy on a Wooden Base1999 / Australian Harness Racing Awards / Lawn Derby Award / 3yo Pacing Filly of the Year / Mother Courage trophy, harness horse, mother courage, 1999, lawn derby award, australian harness racing awards, jj caldow, john caldow, bruce morgan, b morgan