Oliver Lewis Randell (1836-1/7/1899) was a Welshman who began in Ballarat in the 1860's before moving to the Bendigo goldfields in 1871. He was a speculator and one of the first members of the Bendigo Stock Exchange. He had large stock holdings throughout the state, including at the time of his death, 2000 shares in the New Chum Mining Co., and 1000 shares in the North Duke Mining Co., both of BendigoThree metal stencils. Brass frame with gold outer edge and oval shape in centre. Name O.L.Randall in one stencil and two with initials OLR in centre. Bailey Bros in left hand corner Engravers in right hand corner Chancery Lane in bottom left hand corner London WC in bottom right hand corner. Cardboard square with Logo on engraver in purple inkstencils, o.l. randall

Margaret SULUKOWSKI (1963-1994) Born Victoria, Australia Margaret Sulikowski was a Visual Arts student at Ballarat University College (later Federation University). In 1989 Magaret Sulikowski won the Goldfields Print Award, and in 1997 Margaret Sulikowski she was co-winner of the Fremantle Print Award. This item is part of the Federation University Art Collection. The Art Collection features over 2000 works and was listed as a 'Ballarat Treasure' in 2007.Black and white monoprint. art, artwork

This ledger contains details of debts owed by people in the Warrnambool district. It dates from 1906 to 1916. The compiler of the ledger is unknown. Many of the debtors are Chinese, mostly working as market gardeners in the north Warrnambool area and the debts usually concerned rents and the supply of agricultural items such as chaff. These Chinese, many of whom came from the Victorian goldfields, operated market gardens and businesses in the town of Warrnambool from the 1870s to the 1930s or 40s.This ledger is of interest because of the names of people listed as debtors and in particular the names of Chinese working in the district. The ledger is thus a valuable research tool. This is a ledger with a thick card cover in a mottled pattern in red, black, blue and yellow colours The spine, which has some damage, is covered in a maroon coloured leather. The pages are ruled with red lines and the entries are handwritten in ink. There are some loose pages.Debtor's Ledger C.L.warrnambool chinese market gardeners, warrnambool, chinese

The chinese called the rich goldfields in the heart of Victoria Dai Gum San, Big Gold Mountain. A place of untold wealth and promise. Today Dai Gum San is a rich Chinese Cultural Centre and Chinese precinct in the centre of Bendigo which links the Golden Dragon Museum with the Yi Yuan Gardens and Kuan Yin Temple. The gardens are a place of peace and beauty and the Kuan Yin Temple is a stunning home for the goddess of compassion.Squarish piece of quartz with printed plaque attached to front face. Dai gum san / In appreciation of your contribution / to the development of the / Bendigo Chinese Precinct / August 2010dai gum san, bendigo chinese dragon, golden dragon museum, city of greater bendigo heritage attractions

Fehmarn is an island in Germany on the Baltic coast. It was formerly part of Denmark. One of the Fehmarn residents that came to Bendigo was Jurgen La Frenz (1836-1915). He came to Australia in 1855 and after some time on other goldfields, he arrived in Bendigo in 1860. He initially sought his fortune by puddling before moving on to quartz mining. In 1872 he married Mary Parker and they resided at "Fehmarn" in Myrtle Street.Loose information & letters relating to the Fehmarn family and other German families.document, memo, german

Two Black & White Early Photographs of Bendigo. (Photograph 1) Panorama is taken from the Masonic Hall location with the Rifle Brigade Hotel on the corner of Rowan and View Streets and Knipe's Folly in top right of image. (Photograph 2) An early photograph of the Bendigo Goldfields the suburb of Ironbark taken from the vicinity of Mt. Korong Road, overlooking Victoria Street and Quick Street. Image shows Knipe's Castle in Boundary Street ''on the Ironbark Ranges'' top right.bendigo, streetscape, rowan & view st, mt korong rd

1884 Correspondence relating to life of Mrs C Tyrrell between Mr Ken Tyrrell (Maldon) and BHS (F. Kingerlee). Attached was newspaper clipping (no source cited - no date, but possibly 1920s?) headed ''Pioneer Passes'' related to the life and death of Mrs C Tyrrell , wife of Thomas Tyrrell, Mention is made in the letter and the article that Mrs Tyrell and her newborn baby girl were ''the first white females on that (Bendigo) goldfield''. (Left Bendigo 1853 for Maldon).document, newspaper, mrs c. tyrrell

Diggers & Mining. Gold. Chinese on the goldfeild. Some Chinese came as independent gold seekers; but the emigration of many was due to the enterprise of Chinese merchants, who sent them out under contract to work on the goldfields for a certain time at a fixed wage. Those who came under these conditions were under the supervision of ''head men'', representing the Chinese speculators by whom the funds for the voyage were advanced. Markings: 9 994.GOL. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

gold discovery in VictoriaMichele Matthews collection - Research reveals a goldfields pioneer - Dr Georg Hermann Bruhn - Advertiser Saturday 23 July 1988. Official histories credit one James Esmond as being the first to discover gold in Victoria at Clunes on July 1, 1851. A letter from the Secretary of the Mines Department to the Clunes Town Clerk dated May 26, 1950, said the records showed Bruhn was the first to discover gold and had been offered a small reward.

From the Britannia Mine (Ballarat) Candle remnants from early Ballarat mines are quite rare..1) White/cream candle remnant. Candle mold seams are evident. Stored in green pharmaceutical tin with screw lid. (?) Found when removing for filling motor spaces Camp Street. .2) white candle remnant from the Britannia Mine at Cambrian Hill held in a 'Barker Cake Container; tin. A handwritten note inside the tin indicates 'Piece of Candle from Mullock's Britannia Mine. Ballarat. .2) Piece of Candle The Great Leviathan Quartz Mining CosMine at Cambrian Hill near Ballarat. Picked up by Donald Doyles Mather whilst cleaning out Ballarat South Goldfield Co's Leviathan Shaft when reopening "Great Leviathan in in the year 1948. The candle was last used by miners in the Great Leviathan in the drive where found Year G. Leviathan Closed down "______" mining, candle, lard, great leviathan, donald mather, cambrian hill, great leviathan quartz mining company

Diggers and miners. Diggers and Miners. All or the gold seekers at the first great rushes to Ballarat and Mount Alexander were diggers. During the succeeding years of the gold rush decade, many goldfields were discovered; each became the focus of a rush, and the scene of a diggings. The following maps show only the principal gold fields rushed between 1851 and 1961. (The dates do not necessarily indicate the first discovery of gold in the areas.) Markings: 10 994.5 WAL. Used as a teaching aid.haminounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Map of Golden Gully conservation area comprising Glasgow and Golconda Consolidated, Glasgow Reef Company (Golden Gully) and New Napoleon. The area is significant because it contains the 'best evidence for hydraulic sluicing on the field as well as several early reef mining sites' On top of page 'Eaglehawk & Bendigo Heritage Study, Significant areas' Mines marked on page: Goldfields Extended shaft South Concord shaft Concord shaft Morning Light shaft Hansel and Mundy shaftbendigo, mining, golden gully

One hand written and three typed copies of notes on the Great Extended Hustlers Mine. Notes include locality, plant, early history, Prominent and Leading, Dividends and Yield, Bendigo's Worst Mining Accident, and a note of where the poppet legs were taken. Ref: Mines Dept Booklet 'Bendigo Goldfields 1936, Mines Dept Annual and Quarterly Reports, Mines Dept Bulletin 33 H Herman 1914, Annals of Bendigo Mining Sections 1870 - 1925, A Richardson,mine, gold, great extended hustlers., great extended hustlers mine, notes on the great extended hustlers mine, bendigo's worst mining accident, herbert thomas, walter blair, william ryan, george forster, john campbell, leslie martin, frederick chinn, wattle gully gold mine at chewton

Object, Scottish Country Dancing on the Goldfields, A recent family history by Rae Anderson of Bendigo contains reference to early Scottish dancing at Ironbark School on Rae's Hill near Bendigo.'Colonial Travels' by David Kennedy, published in London in 1876. The Ironbark School opened on 1st. June 1861, passed to the Victorian Government in 1875, and closed in 1928.The schoolmaster was John Rae who emigrated from Aberdeen on 3rd.November 1851, arriving at Melbourne on the ship ''Cuthberts'' on 10th. February 1852David Moorheadbendigo, education, ironbark school

Joseph Davies collection, bravery award medal awarded to Joseph Davies for an act of bravery in rescuing a fellow miner from a shaft of the Goldfields Consolidated mine Bendigo after an explosion on July 16th 1909. Circular medal with a blue and gold ribbon & pin clasp, showing 2 miners on one side and the word Courage, bust of Edward VII on other side, name Joseph Davies etched on rim. Encased in a red leather box with satin & velvet lining.trophies & awards, public events, bravery

Documents: folder contains - Prospectus, Rent notices from Dept. of Mines, draft notes for prospectus, Dept. Mines, suspension of the Labour Covenant Lease No. 10024 Bendigo for three months expired 24/10/1934, application for shares forms, correspondence with Dept. of Mines re : Lease 10024, correspondence re Lease 10819, plans for Lease No. 10554, 10024, Dept letter - lease 10819 covers area of lease 10024, prospectus and plan of Bendigo Goldfields showing Lansells Concord Leases.MCCOLL RANKIN AND STANSISTREETorganization, business, gold mining, mccoll rankin and stansistreet, lansells concord gold mining.

Diggers & Mining: The Digging - The Diggers. Slide; When a Gold field shows signs of permanency, the Government surveyed a site for a township on the field. The story of the rise of these towns is told in Unit II of this series. Smalll businesses - some of them conducted by diggers who had done well on the fields - were established in these towns. The following frames contain pictures of some of these early goldfields towns. Black and white side. Markings: 40 994.LIF:6. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The gold licence. The Government Camp. Many of the goldfields police were men of poor character, who carried out their duties with blustering arrogance, demanding the production of the licence with threatening language, and sometimes open violence; and hauling off as common criminals men who, by some mischance, did not have their licences on their persons, when, given a few minutes, they could have shown they had complied with the law. Markings: 35 994.LIF. 4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Diggers & Mining. The gold licence. The Government Camp. Slide: On the more important goldfields, as the number of diggers grew, the Commissioners' establishments were increased, and permanent buildings were erected at their headquarters. The group of tents and buildings forming a Commissioner's headquarters became known as the Government Camp. The Camp included the office of the Commissioner, the licence office, the escort office, the lock-up, staff quarters, and the barracks of the police and any soldiers attached to the Camp. Markings: 14 994.LIF. 4. Used as a teaching aid.hanimounteducation, tertiary, goldfields

Bendigo Art Gallery Mid to Late 19th Century exhibition on display June 3 to July 4 2001, celebrating the transformation of a town into a city. The Bendigo Advertiser is a proud sponsor of exhibition printing a souvenir poster for the occasion depicting a water colour of Kangaroo Flat Sandhurst in 1857 by George Rowe on the cover, a chromolithograph of Sandhurst in 1887 by Francis Niven overleaf and on the back a water colour of the Bendigo Goldfields C.A. Ross & Co. Derwent Store in 1852 by John Cater of Northcote.George Rowebendigo, history, 19th century bendigo

The Bendigo regional Arts Centre presents the premier season of ''The Golden Journey'' by Terry McDermott at the Capital Theatre April 1991. Twenty pages programme priced at $2. On the front cover various drawings depicting life on the goldfields. At the top in blue pen Bendigo Historical Society ''Dudley House'' Inside after the Director's notes brief biographies of Terry McDermott, Keith Little, Eileen Hetherington and Joe Washington. Following all the credits, cast and orchestra names signed by all.entertainment, theatre, capital theatre

The Liquidator Bendigo Amalgamated Goldfields Ltd to Miss G. Alice Jones. Re Federal Land Tax. Pink paper dated. 21, 22, 24, 26 1928 and June 1929. Account includes particulars of properties still held and those sold, going through titles and draft transfers and contracts noting particulars of lands sold and of lands still held. Cost £2.2.0. "R492 Posted 29/6/1929 by B.F?" written in the top left corner.the miss g. alice jones collection - account, bendigo amalgamated goldfields ltd, mr mcrobert

Parchment certificate, Royal Humane Society of Victoria, enclosed in laminate on board. Issued to Charles P. Rowe Mine, Manager, New Chum Rly Mine in endeavouring to rescue Thos. Duggas and rescuing J. Wilson and J. Herron from being killed by a full of earth at Shenandoah Mine, Sandhurst 8th. August 1888. ( bronze medal also awarded ) On bottom of board ' above certificate is just one of many certificates and medals awarded to brave miners on the Bendigo Goldfields'Royal Humane Societytopic, mining, mine rescue

BHS CollectionBendigo Advertiser from April 24, 2002. Bendigo from the rooftops: Bendigo Advertiser photographer Mark Farrugia took these 4 photo from an helicopter during the Easter long weekend. Top left: a lush Tom Flood sports centre makes a welcome change to the barren ovals of last year. Top right: the cathedral towers over high Street. Bottom left: an overhead view of Charing cross. Right bottom: the rich goldfields architecture of the city centre. The clip in in a folder.newspaper, bendigo advertiser

ABC Radio broadcast at the time of the launch of the Gold Tram - tram 45 - on loan from Bendigo,Demonstrates the work of the Ballarat Tramway MuseumAudio cassette tape containing 1. Approximate 50 second item within the Goldfields Radio ABC News on 12/6/2001 regarding the launch of the Gold Tram that day. Contains an interview with Peter Winspur. Read by Graham Knox? Recorded by Stephen Butler. 2. Interview (oral history) with Arthur Reynolds by Alan Bradley (see Reg. Item No. 2146 for transcript) concerning the use of the SEC Ballarat Scrubber Tram. Made 14/6/2001 and for audio extract. tramways, trams, gold tram, abc radio news, ballarat scrubber tram, interviews, tram 45

Brown leather bound journal. 'Share Register' printed on spine in gold leaf. Label underneath has 'Mount Douglas Syndicate' handwritten in pen. Purple stamps on front page of journal:' Southern Goldfields Mining Company' Index of shareholder names in front of journal. Two hundred and fifty-three pages of which one hundred and fifty-three are used to record share transactions. Dates range from 1905 to 1921. Share register is part of the Margaret Roberts Collection of mining records. bendigo, margaret roberts, goldmining, mount douglas syndicate, southern goldfields mining company

The Kokoda Track (or Trail) is a single-file thoroughfare that runs 96 kilometres (60ml) overland) - 60 kilometres (37ml) in a straight line - through the Owen Stanley Range in Papua New Guinea (PNG).The trail was First used by Europeans in the 1890s by miners struggling northwards to the Yodda Kokoda goldfields. During the Pacific War of World War 2 a series of battles were fought from July 1942 to January 1943 between Japanese and Australian forces.One of the bloodiest campaigns of World War 2,which has forever sealed the relation ship between Australia and Papua New Guinea began 61 years ago. This Photographic Memorial is dedicated to those Australian and Papua New Guinea forces who fought against the Japanese with courage and fortitude on the Kokoda Trail.Rectangular shaped glass covered picture frame showing a collection of photos,two flags and a Rising sun badge. The Kododa Trail.kokoda track, world war 2, papua new guinea, australian forces, lara r.s.l.

Established during the great Mount Alexander alluvial gold rush of 1852-54 the cemetery is located on a small hill overlooking one of the richest spots on the goldfield (the junction of Fryers Creek and Loddon River). The location of the cemetery was chosen because it was a convenient piece of ground where gold was not likely to be discovered, and burials were mainly of Chinese miners. It remained in use until 1857. The cemetery was restored in 1929 using money raised within the Chinese communities of Bendigo and Castlemaine. Colour photograph of the Chinese Cemetery at Vaughan. vaughan, vaughan springs, vaughan chinese cemetery, chinese