Slide - DIGGERS & MINING. THE DIGGING - THE DIGGERS, c1800s

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Diggers & Mining. The Digging - The Diggers. Slide reads: (2) The diggers were intolerant of class distinctions. The work was a great leveller. The well-born and the lowly, the educated and the illiterate - men of all classes and occupations rubbed shoulders together at the diggings. The only ''respect'' paid to birth was the denomination of ''swell'' or ''genteel cove''. Markings: 70 994.LIF:6. Used as a teaching aid.

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