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Camel team approaching Ayers Rock in search for Lasseter's body - John Bailey

Camel team approaching Ayers Rock in search for Lasseter's body - John...

Camel team approaching Ayers Rock in search for Lasseter's body

Gold panning, Australia, 1900

Gold panning, Australia, 1900

Format: Glass plate negative. Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. Repository: Tyrrell Photographic Collection, Powerhouse Museum /collection=The_Tyrrell_Photographic Part Of: Powerhouse Muse... More

Mayne Street Gulgong NSW 1873

Mayne Street Gulgong NSW 1873

Mayne Street, Gulgong, looking east from Colonial Wines, C. Giugni jeweller, Prince of Wales Theatre, S.Green's Hairdressing Salon and Dillon's Hotel, Hill End, New South Wales, ca. 1872, [attributed] American ... More

Port Phillip and Colonial Gold Mining Co., Clune

Port Phillip and Colonial Gold Mining Co., Clune

Overlooking township, shows houses, some with washing on the line, gold mines, some with towers, chimney stacks, wooden track l.l. supported by logs.

Prospectors Hut Dargo - A group of men standing next to a pile of wood

Prospectors Hut Dargo - A group of men standing next to a pile of wood

Prospector's Hut Upper Dargo Gippsland Date(s) of creation: [ca. 1870] Dargo, Australia Source http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/pictoria/b/1/9/doc/b19603.shtml

Queensland State Archives 2243 Cootharaba Mill Gympie Goldfield c 1897

Queensland State Archives 2243 Cootharaba Mill Gympie Goldfield c 1897

Cootharaba Mill, Gympie Goldfield. (Caption obtained from register listing.)

Queensland State Archives 2244 Gympie goldfields and Monkland Gympie Region c 1897

Queensland State Archives 2244 Gympie goldfields and Monkland Gympie R...

Gympie goldfields and Monkland, Gympie Region. (Caption obtained from register listing.)

Queensland State Archives 2246 Interior of Quartz crushing battery Gympie Goldfield c 1897

Queensland State Archives 2246 Interior of Quartz crushing battery Gym...

Interior of Quartz crushing battery, Gympie Goldfield. (Caption obtained from register listing.)

Queensland State Archives 2249 Four miners at face of reef in Gympie Goldfield c 1897

Queensland State Archives 2249 Four miners at face of reef in Gympie G...

Four miners at face of reef in Gympie Goldfield. (Gold-mining)

Queensland State Archives 2250 Four miners at head of winze Columbia and Smithfield at Gympie Goldfield 775 feet level c 1897

Queensland State Archives 2250 Four miners at head of winze Columbia a...

Four miners at head of winze, Columbia and Smithfield at Gympie Goldfield, 775 feet level.

Queensland State Archives 2320 View of town and works from cuttings Mount Morgan c 1897

Queensland State Archives 2320 View of town and works from cuttings Mo...

View of town and works from cuttings, Mount Morgan.

Queensland State Archives 2321 View of works Mount Morgan c 1897
Queensland State Archives 2481 Small diggings with windlass Lucky Valley Goldmine c 1898

Queensland State Archives 2481 Small diggings with windlass Lucky Vall...

Small diggings with windlass, Lucky Valley Goldmine.

State Lib Qld 1 122461 Cracow Garage at Cracow, Queensland, ca. 1932
State Lib Qld 1 234572 Queen Line of Reef, Charters Towers, ca. 1878

State Lib Qld 1 234572 Queen Line of Reef, Charters Towers, ca. 1878

Queen Line of Reef, Charters Towers, ca. 1878. A horsedrawn vehicle, probably a hawker of general stores and goods, is being driven around the diggings.

State Lib Qld 2 176115 Miners at the Planted Creek Gold Mine, Kilkivan District, 1930s

State Lib Qld 2 176115 Miners at the Planted Creek Gold Mine, Kilkivan...

Miners at the Planted Creek Gold Mine, Kilkivan District, 1930s

David Tulloch - Gold digging - Google Art Project

David Tulloch - Gold digging - Google Art Project

Public domain photo of landscape art painting, 18th-19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Gold diggings, Ararat, 1858 painted by Edward Roper a7476002h

Gold diggings, Ararat, 1858 painted by Edward Roper a7476002h

Painting of the gold diggings at Ararat, Victoria, Australia. Public domain photograph of 19th-century portrait painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

StateLibQld 1 102208 Gold miners outside a bark hut, Queensland, ca. 1870

StateLibQld 1 102208 Gold miners outside a bark hut, Queensland, ca. 1...

Gold miners outside a bark hut, Queensland, ca. 1870 Two gold miners dressed in working clothes outside a slab bark hut with mining tools nearby.

StateLibQld 1 103542 Copperfield gold mining town, Queensland, ca.1882

StateLibQld 1 103542 Copperfield gold mining town, Queensland, ca.1882

Copperfield gold mining town, Queensland, ca.1882 View of the settlement of Copperfield, a gold mining town in Queensland. Miners' huts and large buildings with chimneys can be seen with a mining shaft in the l... More

StateLibQld 1 104636 Gold mining, ca. 1869

StateLibQld 1 104636 Gold mining, ca. 1869

Gold mining, ca. 1869 The Richard Daintree collection held in the John Oxley Library has many unidentified images. If you are able to assist with identification, please click on the Feedback tab. Richard Daintr... More

StateLibQld 1 112124 Gold mining at Kilcoy Creek, 1933

StateLibQld 1 112124 Gold mining at Kilcoy Creek, 1933

Gold mining at Kilcoy Creek, 1933 Kilcoy is in Queensland's Sunshine Coast hinterland. The town is north-west of Caboolture on the D’Aguilar Highway, just north of Lake Somerset and at the base of the Conondale... More

StateLibQld 1 137103 Goldminers prospecting, ca. 1870

StateLibQld 1 137103 Goldminers prospecting, ca. 1870

Goldminers prospecting, ca. 1870 The Richard Daintree collection held in the John Oxley Library has many unidentified images. If you are able to assist with identification, please click on the Feedback tab. Ric... More

StateLibQld 1 234524 Gold diggings on Towers Hill outside Charters Towers

StateLibQld 1 234524 Gold diggings on Towers Hill outside Charters Tow...

Gold diggings on Towers Hill outside Charters Towers.

StateLibQld 1 234548 Miners at the gold diggings outside Charters Towers, ca. 1878

StateLibQld 1 234548 Miners at the gold diggings outside Charters Towe...

Miners at the gold diggings outside Charters Towers, ca. 1878. Caption under photograph reads: Queen line of reef, Charters Towers.

StateLibQld 1 83851 Lady Maria Mine at Charters Towers, 1891

StateLibQld 1 83851 Lady Maria Mine at Charters Towers, 1891

Lady Maria Mine at Charters Towers, 1891. Early diggings on the Charters Towers mining district. Makeshift shade for the miners.

StateLibQld 1 85024 Workers and their families having a break at the Mount Craven mine, Eidsvold, 1889

StateLibQld 1 85024 Workers and their families having a break at the M...

Workers and their families having a break at the Mount Craven mine, Eidsvold, 1889

StateLibQld 2 179227 Illustration of a fight between prospectors and natives at the Hodgkinson goldfield, 1876

StateLibQld 2 179227 Illustration of a fight between prospectors and n...

Illustration of a fight between prospectors and natives at the Hodgkinson goldfield, 1876

StateLibQld 2 205280 Miners at the Kilcoy Creek Goldfields, 1933

StateLibQld 2 205280 Miners at the Kilcoy Creek Goldfields, 1933

Miners at the Kilcoy Creek Goldfields, 1933

StateLibQld 2 239452 Diggings at South Glanmine gold mine, 1900

StateLibQld 2 239452 Diggings at South Glanmine gold mine, 1900

Diggings at South Glanmine gold mine, 1900 Over a total of three years, this mine took £795,000's worth of gold. (Description supplied with photograph.) Note that Queensland place name searches return nothing f... More

StateLibQld 2 255634 Apollonian Vale, Gympie, ca. 1890

StateLibQld 2 255634 Apollonian Vale, Gympie, ca. 1890

Apollonian Vale, Gympie, ca. 1890 Gold was discovered in Gympie in 1867 by James Nash on the site now occupied by Gympie's Town Hall. Nash made the five-day journey down the Mary River from Maryborough and afte... More

StateLibQld 2 292883 Miners at work at the Copper Reduction Works, Mt. Morgan, 1908

StateLibQld 2 292883 Miners at work at the Copper Reduction Works, Mt....

Miners at work at the Copper Reduction Works, Mt. Morgan, 1908 Miners at work inside the Copper Reduction Works on 6 March 1908.

Dana St Ballarat Victoria c1872 63783

Dana St Ballarat Victoria c1872 63783

View down Dana Street, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, c. 1872, by American & Australasian Photographic Company, glass negative, State Library of New South Wales, https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nZNmjNmn... More

Prospectors' hut Upper Dargo, Gippsland, ca 1870 (SLV b19603)

Prospectors' hut Upper Dargo, Gippsland, ca 1870 (SLV b19603)

Prospectors' hut in the 19th century goldfields at Upper Dargo, Gippsland, Victoria, Australia

Sluicing-the-lerderderg

Sluicing-the-lerderderg

Sluicing in the Lerderderg Gorge

Jericho Victoria 1917

Jericho Victoria 1917

The ghost town of Jericho, Victoria, a gold mining town in the Victorian Alps between Mansfield and Moe

Bendigo diggings gold mine c 1857

Bendigo diggings gold mine c 1857

Bendigo diggings gold mine in c.1857 - Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

Gold diggers using a puddling machine at Bendigo

Gold diggers using a puddling machine at Bendigo

Gold diggers using a puddling machine at Bendigo, Victoria, Australia in 1857

View at Hanging Rock diggings, New South Wales

View at Hanging Rock diggings, New South Wales

View at the Hanging Rock diggings, New South Wales, Australia in 1857

Working a 'long tom' to wash out gold at the Bendigo diggings

Working a 'long tom' to wash out gold at the Bendigo diggings

Working a 'long tom' to wash out gold at the Bendigo diggings, Victoria, Australia, c.1957

Working a 'whip' to raise washing stuff at the Bendigo diggings

Working a 'whip' to raise washing stuff at the Bendigo diggings

Working a 'whip' to raise washing stuff at the Bendigo diggings, Victoria, Australia

B.O. Holtermann with the Holtermann Nugget, North Sydney, 1874-1876 ? - American & Australasian Photographic Company (8575721367)

B.O. Holtermann with the Holtermann Nugget, North Sydney, 1874-1876 ? ...

Bernard Otto Holtermann with a gold-quartz specimen discovered in 1872, North Sydney, composite portrait 1872-1876, attrib. Charles Bayliss/Beaufoy Merlin, from glass-plate negative, State Library of New South ... More

B.O. Holtermann with the Holtermann Nugget, North Sydney, 1874-1876 - American & Australasian Photographic Company (8575721367)-Colorized

B.O. Holtermann with the Holtermann Nugget, North Sydney, 1874-1876 - ...

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