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Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. DIGGERS AND MINERS, c1800s
... goldfields ...Diggers & Mining. Diggers and miners. Walhalla - Gold Town. WALHALLA 404. Markings: 1 995 WAL. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. DIGGERS AND MINERS, c1850s
... goldfields ...Diggers & Mining. Diggers and miners. The same difficulties confront us when we try to discover the total number of diggers in Victoria for each year of the gold rush. The most acceptable figures for the total population engaged in all forms of gold-getting, i.e., diggers and miners - - - Markings: 48 994:LIF I. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. DIGGERS AND MINERS, c1850s
... goldfields ...Diggers & Mining. Diggers and miners. We could illustrate the migratory nature of the diggings population if we could compile graphs showing the numbers of diggers on each diggings at regular intervals during the gold rush. But this is impossible because of the incompleteness and inconsistencies of the official records. The numbers of licences (September, 1851 - March, 1855) and (there-after) of miner's rights issued are of little use. Why? Markings: 47 994:LIF I. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. DIGGERS AND MINERS, c1953
... goldfields ...Diggers & Mining. Diggers and miners. Many diggers not only moved from field to field, but alternated between gold digging and other occupations. Slide; THE STATE OF VICTORIA - - - Gold digging and other sorts of labour have arrived at a sort of equilibrium; and streams of people are now flowing from the one occupation to the others, and visa versa. A few weeks ill luck at Bendigo disgust a man with his auriferous well sinking and he goes into some sort of service. A dispute with his master chiming in with some current takes of mining success sends him back to the diggings again; and so the stream flows backwards and forwards keeping - - - the wages of all kinds of labour at an equilibrium - - - (M.M.H., August 19, 1853) Markings: 46 994:LIF I. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. DIGGERS AND MINERS, c1855
... goldfields ...Diggers & Mining. Diggers and miners. At the Caledonian Diggings (near Warrandyte), 1855. Slide; Slab hut with gold cradle amongst the trees. Markings: 45 994:LIF I. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. DIGGERS AND MINERS, c1854
... goldfields ...Diggers & Mining. Diggers and miners. At McIvor, 1854. Slide; Mt McIvor 1854. Shows a lage miners tent with stone chimney. Markings: 44 994:LIF I. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. DIGGERS AND MINERS, c1852
... goldfields ...Diggers & Mining. Diggers and miners. At Fryer's Creek (Mount Alexander) 1852. Slide; My tent 1852 Fryers St. Shows miners' tent amongst trees some of which have been cut down. Markings: 43 994:LIF I. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. DIGGERS AND MINERS, c1853
... goldfields ...Diggers & Mining. Diggers and miners. At Diamond Gully, 1853. Slide; shows a miners tent. Markings on picture August 1853 Diamond Gully. Markings: 42 994:LIF I. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. DIGGERS AND MINERS, c1852
... goldfields ...Diggers & Mining. Diggers and miners. The following four pictures illustrate hw one digger moved from one diggings to another between 1852 and 1855. At each diggings he tried, he put up a tent up hut; and before he left, he made a drawing of his quarters. These drawings are now kept in the Faulder - Watson collection at Castlemaine. Markings: 41 994:LIF I. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. DIGGERS AND MINING, c1852
... goldfields ...Diggers & Mining. Diggers and miners. - - - moving alone, or in small parties - - - Slide: STG Wayfaring Diggers 1852. Two diggers resting by a creek. Markings: 40 994:LIF I. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. DIGGERS AND MINERS, c1850s
... goldfields ...Diggers & Mining. Diggers and miners. S.T.G. On the way to a new rush. - - - or, in the case of the bug rushes, in their hundreds and thousands. Slide depicts miners with their horses and belongings of to the next gold rush. Markings: 39 994:LIF I. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. GOLD, c1855
... 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 -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. GOLD, c1859
... 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 -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. GOLD, c1855
... 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 -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. GOLD, c1850s
... goldfields ...Diggers & Mining. Gold. ? Chinese quarter on an Ovens diggings. Slide shows the Chinese quarters which is a different style building to all others. There are also some Chinese caring buckets in the traditional Chinese manner. Markings: 2 994.GOL. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. GOLD AND IMMIGRATION, c1850s
... goldfields ...Diggers & Mining. Gold. Gold And Immigration. Section 4 The Chinese In Victoria Markings: 1 994.GOL. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. STORES AT THE DIGGINGS, c1855
... goldfields ...Diggers & Mining. Stores at the diggings. STG Site of Bentley's Hotel, Eureka, 1855. The Eureka Hotel stood here; but a crowd or angry diggers burnt it to the ground on October 17, 1854. Why? Slide shows dog, ox and diggers. Buildings in the background. Markings: 45 994.LIF. 5. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. STORES AT THE DIGGINGS, c1855
... goldfields ...Diggers & Mining. Stores at the diggings. This old photograph shows a hotel on the Wedderburn diggings in 1855. The wooden structures have chimneys. Slide shows that there are families with horses and carts in the photo as well. Markings: 44 994.LIF. 5. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. STORES AT THE DIGGINGS, c1855
... goldfields ...Diggers & Mining. Stores at the diggings. A hotel at Kangaroo Flat, near Bendigo c. 1855. Slide shows a Shop called Gunn's, and a hotel called Glascow Arms Hotel. Tents in the background on the left, miners, horse, some oxen, a dog and birds. Markings: 43 994.LIF. 5. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. STORES AT THE DIGGINGS, c1853
... goldfields ...Diggers & Mining. Stores at the diggings. After 1853, many hotels were built on the diggings. The diggings hotel was generally a rambling wooden structure with large stables. A billiard room or a bowling alley was often to be found nearby. Markings: 42 994.LIF. 5. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. STORES AT THE DIGGINGS, c1855111
... goldfields ...Diggers & Mining. Stores at the diggings. ''Store Drays Camped on the Road to Ballarat'', 1855. Slide: Store dray resting on side of road with un covered wagon racing past. STG. Store Drays Camped on roadside to Ballaarat. James - Blum----Dell. Melbourne 1885. Markings: 41 994.LIF. 5. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. STORES AT THE DIGGINGS, c1852
... goldfields ...Diggers & Mining. Stores at the diggings. The following frame contains an extract from the book ''Victoria-Late Australia Felix'' by the Victorian historian William Westgarth, which was published in 1853. This extract describes the effect or rising cartage costs on prices at the diggings in the winter of 1852. Markings: 39 994.LIF. 5. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. STORES AT THE DIGGINGS, c1852
... goldfields ...Diggers & Mining. Stores at the diggings. One grievance of the diggers on the early fields was the high cost of most commodities. Prices were rising all over Victoria, but they rose even more steeply at the diggings, because, with drays and bullock-drivers at a premium, and with the roads in a bad state, the cost of cartage to the fields rose rapidly. Markings: 38 994.LIF. 5. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. STORES AT THE DIGGINGS, c1852
... goldfields ...Diggers & Mining. Stores at the diggings. Road to Mt. Alexander, 1852. Stores were carried to the diggings in bullock drays. Slide shows travellers with swags and drays pulled by ox, with stores also a horse pulling a dray with supplies. Markings: 37 994.LIF. 5. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. STORES AT THE DIGGINGS, c1852
... goldfields ...Diggers & Mining. Stores at the diggings. Diggers breakfasting at a coffee tent on the road to Mt. Alexander (1852). STG. Image from Bath Inn Diggers Breakfast. Image shows miners gathered around the Coffee Tent. The tent has a flag with emblem on it draped over the back corner of the tent. Markings: 36 994.LIF. 5. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. STORES AT THE DIGGINGS, c1850s
... goldfields ...Diggers & Mining. Stores at the diggings. (Continued) . . . At Ballarat in more lawless days, when Mr Armstrong had it entirely his own way, he used to collect a bundle of faggots, pile them up in the middle of the forfeited tent, and set the whole concern in a blaze - burning them out, furniture, merchandise, and clothing; and yet, even to this, unauthorised as it was, they never offered serious resistance. On the present occasion the culprit seemed to fear that Mr. Armstrong was going to do the, and humbly begged and exemption for his ''traps'', which was graciously granted. In the course of the day this man was fined 100pound (it being a second offence), which he paid before the night; such are the profits of illicit trade . . . These seizures are pretty frequent; Mr. Armstrong tells me he had as many as nine bonfires blazing together at night in various parts. Markings: 34 994.LIF. 5. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING: THE DIGGINGS - THE DIGGERS
... goldfields ...Diggers & Mining: The Digging - The Diggers. Slide: depicts miners using puddlers. Only one tree insight. Markings: 30 994.LIF:6. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING: THE DIGGINGS - THE DIGGERS
... goldfields ...Diggers & Mining: The Digging - The Diggers. Slide: Depicts two men one leaning on a stump writing a letter home, the other smoking a pipe while sitting on a log. Markings: 29 994.LIF:6. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING: THE DIGGING - THE DIGGERS, c1850s
... goldfields ...Diggers & Mining: The Digging - The Diggers. Slide; They were, of course, all kinds of diggers - but soon a recognizable digger ''type'' emerged. Slide shows a diggers with shovel on shoulder and cigarette in his mouth, cradle in background, tent 2 people and bushland in background. Black and white slide. Markings: 49 994.LIF:6. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - DIGGERS & MINING: THE DIGGINGS - THE DIGGERS
... goldfields ...Diggers & Mining: The Digging - The Diggers. Slide; The Diggers. Black and white slide. Markings: 48 994.LIF:6. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields