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Postcard (item) - Black and white postcard, Unknown

  • Shows a man sitting outside a wooden hut. The man is smoking. The hut is surrounded by a wooden paling fence and at the of the hut is a lean-to. Both the hut and the lean-to are roofed with timber palings. In the background is a steep hill with wooden paling fences running up the slope. On the reverse of the postcard is a hand-written message and an address.

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  • Shows a man sitting outside a wooden hut. The man is smoking. The hut is surrounded by a wooden paling fence and at the of the hut is a lean-to. Both the hut and the lean-to are roofed with timber palings. In the background is a steep hill with wooden paling fences running up the slope. On the reverse of the postcard is a hand-written message and an address.

Historical information

An early black and white photograph taken at the Golden Bower Mine Camp in the Cumberland Valley in Victoria.

Significance

An early black and white photograph taken at the Golden Bower Mine Camp in the Cumberland Valley in Victoria.
The Golden Bower gold mine was a quartz reef mine.
William Edward Chester discovered the Golden Secret gold vein which became part of the Golden Bower Mine at Chesterville near Donovans Creek on the Cumberland goldfield which he mined with George Locke until the late 1930s.

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