Historical information

The Eureka Pageant was held on Saturday 04 December 1954.

Physical description

A black and white image of Ballarat's Sovereign Hill in 1854. Sovereign Hill was the site of the Eureka Pageant held as part of the Eureka Stockade centenary celebrations.

Inscriptions & markings

Original caption: This will be the scene of to-day's Eureka pageant at Sovereign Hill, where a clearance and levelling job has been done to allow for the slabbed stokade (left foreground), and the small hillock (centre), where the soldiery will be situated. The actual Eureka battle site is in the centre background, a mile or so away. This area of Golden Point is also historic ground. Just in front of the "Stockade" to the left is Poverty Point, where Dunlop and Egan made their first gold finds in this vicinity.