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Aerial Photograph of the Ballarat School of Mines bounded by Armstrong Street South, Grant Street, Albert Street and Dana Street. Buildings depicted include the Ballarat Brewery, Ballarat Gaol, White Flat Ovalballarat school of mines, ballarat brewery, ballarat club, ballarat uniting church, ballarat school of mines model mine, ballarat school of mines mining workshop, ballarat girls' techncial school, albert street, white flat oval, grant street, lydiard sreet, mining laboratory, model mine, armstrong street south, james oddie's bank

James Oddie is an archetypal example of the young men of British origin who came to the Ballarat diggings hoping to make their fortune during the Gold Rush and stayed on to establish the foundations of the regional centre that became the modern city of today.James Oddie witnessed the Eureka Stockade and played a significant role in the formative years of Ballarat's development.Part of a single newspaper sheet, folded, yellow with age.Nonechartists, eureka stockade, geelong, buninyong, doctor lang, foundry business, storeman, licences, estate agent, benefactor, ballarat benevolent asylum, rachel riding, female refuge, ballarat bank, mount pleasant observatory, electric light, trams, ballarat botanical gardens, railways, ballarat art gallery, john garner collection, gardens, ballarat