Joan O'Shea Collection. Victoria Hill Bendigo Gold Mining on the Richest Quartz Reef in Bendigo, from 1854 to 1916. Colour and Black and White Booklet 16 Pages. Includes Maps of the Victoria Hill Area, photographs of the remains of a twenty head crushing battery, burnt ground from quartz roasting, The Victoria Quartz Mine Photograph from Australian Mining Standard June 1899, The compressor beds and concrete foundations for the poppet legs all that remain today of the Victoria Quartz Mine deepest mine on Bendigo Goldfield 4613 feet or 1406.04 metres. Also included photograph of the view of Victoria Hill from The New Chum Hill in the 1870s. The Location of the 3 mines Ballerstedt's open cut, North Old Chum and Lansell's 180 are marked. A depiction of Rae's Open Cut gives an understanding of the primitive nature of early workings on the Goldfields. The Booklet also provides a brief history of Victoria Hill itself.Bendigo Trust Publication March 1972. Printed in Bendigo Cambridge Press.bendigo, mining, victoria hill

Duck & Cabbage Tree : A pictorial history of clothes in Australia 1788-1914. Arranged & annotated by Cedric Flower First published 1968 by Angus and Robertson LTD. Printed by Halstead Press, Sydney. Multi-colour with white background dust cover. Green hard back. Markings – Bendigo Historical Society Inc. stamp front and back. Copy not assigned a part letterCedric Flowerhistory, clothing, pictorial 1788 - 1914, clothing, convicts, settlers, goldminers, aborigines

Bendigo Amalgated Goldfields No Liability, Reports and Statement of accounts. Period ending 2nd July, 1918. Poor copy - damaged spineBendigo Amalgamated Goldfields, Registered Office, Commonwealth Chambers, Bendigobendigo, mining, reports and statement of accounts, mining and goldmining stastics.

Bendigo Goldfield. Produced by Mines Department Victoria Yellow cover with a map of Australia depicting the states and highlighting Victoria. Issued by Geo Brown Secretary of Mines. Underneath the Map is printed 'Mines Department, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 1936. Maps at the back of book.Mines Department Victoriabendigo, mining, early history., bendigo - history, mining, and bendigo goldmines.

A Bird's-Eye View, Eaglehawk Area in the 1850s. Publisher: Noelene Wild. Place of publication: Ealgehawk. ISBN: 0-9579939-1-9. 76 pages. Photographs & illustrations.Noelene Wildbendigo, history, eaglehawk, eaglehawk history pioneers goldmining

Bendigo A History. Two Copies. A history of gold mining in Bendigo from its earliest time and the development of the city. Black and white illustrations and photographs. 282 pages.Frank Cusackbendigo, history, bendigo, goldfields, gold mining, history of goldmining, bendigo history

Brown covered index book, listing wages paid to workers and footages done. Dates listed from 1949 to 1951. Names of workers listed as just surnames on some dates, with initials on others.business, mining, north deborah gold mine, mccoll, rankin & stanistreet, norht deborah, wages, goldmine

McColl, Rankin and Stanistreet., diary 1919. Brown covered book, on front in gold embossed writing : ' Diary 1919, with compliments of Farmers & Citizens Trustees Company, Commercial House, Charing Cross, Bendigo.' Image of Commercial House, Charing Cross, Bendigo. Manager of Farmers and Citizens Trustees Company Bendigo Limited was R.A. Rankin ( McColl, Rankin & Stanistreet ) Diary contains loose documents, including ballot paper for Sandhurst Club 1921 for R. Norbury, Sydney and Allsop & Co., Stock and Share Brokers, members of Bendigo Stock Exchange.organization, mining, diary 1913, mccoll, rankin and stanistreet. goldmining, mining, sandhurst club, sydney & allsop & co.

Document: McColl, Rankin and Stanistreet Collection. Book covered in brown card tied with string on spine. On front in pen 'Mines Act Victoria 1928' 225 pages.Victorian Governmentorganization, mining, mines act 1928, mccoll, rankin and stanistreet, mining, goldmines

Sepia photograph showing New Chum Line Reef Bendigo with shed in foreground signed Duchess Tribute surrounded by Poppet Heads.photograph, landscape, gold mine, bendigo-history-goldmines-new chum reef

Sepia photograph New Chum Gully Bendigo showing a long Trestle way, Poppet head,various chimneys and assorted buildings, handwritten on top Bendigo 14/4/06 E.Hphotograph, landscape, gold mine, bendigo-history-goldmines-new chum

Typed notes titled 'a Hill and its Administration'. It mentions the Gold Commissioners, mining licences, Red Ribbon Movement, the buildings around Commissioner's Hill, corrupt police, the iron lock up and the log lock up.document, a hill and its administration, mr horn, captain dana, asst commissioner gilbert, commissioner cockburn, capt john urquart, asst commissioner panton, asst commissioner reid, asst comm j m clow, comm wright, captain bull, asst comm joseph anderson panton, red ribbon movement, governor latrobe, mr thomson, police commissioner mitchell, col valiant, queen victoria, eureka riot, lt finch, mt alexander mail sat 9 sept 1854, bendigo sports centre, post office, garden gully goldmine, high school, old supreme court, st jean's hill, volunteer rifle corp, vic volunteer cal regiment, vol cavalry, bendigo art gallery, a n a lodge, a n a hall, goldfield police, m'lachlan, fly bros, hustlers park mine, bendigo advertiser 15 january 1857, bendigo gaol

Produced by St Andrews Primary School, covering the area's history from early settlement, discovery of gold, the Caledonia Diggings, social and community history, fruitgrowing and development through the latter half of the 1900's into and covering the 20th century.A concise history of the origins of St Andrews, Victoria, Australia from gold mining to the diverse community it is todaySoftcover book with orange brown tones and black and white lettering and highlights, with historic photographs on front and back cover and 149 pages.#gold, #goldmining, #caledoniadiggings

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This pair of 19th century candleholders were presented to Nazareth House Ballarat by J.A.Chalk one of Ballarat's richest 19th century gold-mining entrepeneurs. J.A.Chalk was a partner in the Madam Berry Mines together with Martin Loughlin and William Bailey and was Manager of the Buninyong Estate Co., the Band and Barton Co., the Sebastopol Plateau Co., and the Prince of Wales and Bonshaw Co. mines in 1887. Chalk was a Quaker and benefactor to many Ballarat institutions. He arranged for the Council Chambers to be made available for meetings of the Society of Friends (Quakers) in the mid 19th century.One of a pair of large 19th century ornamented candle holders for use in the Chapel at Nazareth House Ballarat presented by 19th century Ballarat philanthropist and gold-mining magnate.The candleholders are in two separate sections the heavy lead-filled brass base with demountable seven-branched candleholders surmounting the base. The lower portion or base form a single candlestick when the branched top section is removed. The branches are decorated with styalised rose petals and the tops of each base decorated with rims of neo-gothic coronas.Presented with King Regards By J.A.Chalk Ballarat.candleholders, candlesticks, nazareth house, ballarat. j.a.chalk, madam berry mines, goldmining, entrepenauer, buninyong, sebastopol, prince of wales, bonshaw co, quaker, society of friends.

Three typed and one handwritten copies of notes on the Victoria Quartz Mine. Notes include Size of Lease, Depth of Shaft, Locality, P;lant, Early History, Leading & Prominent, Best Gold and Gold Yield.document, gold, victoria quartz, victoria quartz, notes on the victoria quartz mine, goldmines hotel, mr william rae, lansell's 180, mr e j dunn, geological branch of the mines department, new chum railway mine, new chum drainage association, mines dept special edition australian mining standard 1/6/1899, mines dept booklet 'bendigo goldfield' 1936, mines dept annual and quarterly reports, annals of bendigo, a richardson