Slide - DIGGERS & MINING THE DIGGING-THE DIGGERS, c1850s

Physical description

Diggers & Mining. The Digging - The Diggers. Slide reads; As to character and conduct, there were all types. Some diggers were industrious, law abiding, and respectable . . . . Slide headed Digger of high degree (1852) Slide shows digger standing in a shaft wiping the sweet from his head, digger in background reading a newspaper and a digger in the foreground wearing a jacket and smoking a pipe. Kettle and book also in foreground. Markings: 55 994.LIF:6. Used as a teaching aid.

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