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180 x 127 mm. A view of the crushing machines, complete with water sluices which separate the crushed rock from the gold. Explanation on mount reads ‘The reduction of quartz by stampers, is the only method at present adopted on the Gold Fields of Bendigo. The most extensive plants, being those at Koch’s Pioneer Claim, Long Gully; The Extended Hustler’s; also the Garden Gully United; and the Abe Lincoln Crushing Plant, New Chum Gully’.

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180 x 124 mm. A view looking over a former goldfield, with excavated land in the foreground, and small domestic houses beyond. The text beneath the picture reads ‘This flat twenty years since, was a busy scene with its thousands of diggers, breaking the native soil in search of gold. The canvas tents then used have long since given place to the more solid and comfortable domiciles constructed of wood and bricks’. A better print of the same photograph occurs in Y308A/76.

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154 x 170 mm. Mounted photograph. Shows cubes of various sizes representing the relative outputs of different mines. The fronts of the cubes have printed on them information about size, dividends and value. A printed caption stuck beneath the photograph states: 'The above 27 companies represent a paid-up capital of £437,631. Value for gold produced, £6,132,544. Dividends paid, £3,131,355. Approximate value of the 27 mines and machinery, £2,000,000.

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148 x 194 mm. A view looking along Pall Mall in Bendigo, with its broad tree-lined pavement. In fact only a small corner of the Law Courts can be seen. The main building in the picture, with the clocktower, is the Bendigo Post Office opened in 1887.

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178 x 124 mm. A view of a section of the Botanical Gardens, with buildings and greenhouses in the background. The text below the picture reads ‘These public gardens were first promoted by the Sandhurst Corporation in the year 1865. They cover an area of about 30 acres, and contain many choice and rare plants. The public are admitted every day in the week, from the hours of sunrise to sunset. Mr. Gadd is the curator and resides in the gardens.

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185 x 128 mm. A view showing various mines, with piles of rubble and large pieces of quartz in the foreground. Claims identified in the key are Mr. Lansell’s No. 180 Claim, Victoria and New Chum Company, The North Old Chum Claim, and the Old Chum Claim.

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177 x 124 mm. A close-up view of mine workings, with drilling derricks in the foreground. Claims identified in the key are Carlisle Company’s Claim, North Garden Gully Claim, and Pass-by Company’s Claim.

Scope and Contents 186 x 129 mm. A view looking down on several mine-workings, with tall brick chimneys dotted over the landscape. The different holdings are identified in the key as The Hustler’s Tribute Company, The Great Extended Hustler’s Claim, Great Hustler’s Claim (late Latham and Watson’s), and the Old Hustler’s Claim. The mines represent some of the most productive mines in Bendigo (Hustler, the original owner of the mines died, true to tradition, without a shilling) and in 1875 the Hustler’s mine...

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126 x 128 mm. A view looking along the pews towards the altar and organ. (See Y3087C/15 for an exterior view of the church).

Scope and Contents 170 x 118 mm. A view showing the front of the building on Pall Mall, with a large group of people posing in front of the store. This photograph is on a different mount to the rest of the portfolio and has no captions apart from ‘N.J. Claire, Photo, View Street, Sandhurst’. It was presumably taken to celebrate the opening of the new Beehive. The old Beehive stores, which Buick and Co. had shared with Moore Bros, was burnt down in August 1871. The new building, pictured here, was completed in...

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178 x 124 mm. A view of mining works, showing the Perseverance United Claim, with Windmill Hill in the distance.

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177 x 125 mm. A view from the hill looking out over small houses and gardens, with mine workings in the distance, and ‘Cleary’s Honeysuckle Street Hotel’ identifiable in the centre of the picture.

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180 x 127 mm. A view looking down on to several mine workings, with the township of Golden Square in the distance. The different claims are identified in the key, with Lazarus’ crushing plant at the left. Quartz-crushing machines were used in Bendigo before anywhere else in Victoria, and on the New Chum Reef since 1855 (see Y3087C/5).

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178 x 125 mm. A view looking east along Pall Mall, with the Beehive Buildings at the right, and the Shamrock Hotel a few doors down at the corner of Williamson Street. With horse carriages in the street.

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178 x 126 mm. A view of the street from the east end, looking west and showing the shop fronts of saddlers, shirt-makers, and tailors. Moore Bros. can be seen at the left, and the Beehive Stores can be identified at the other of the street. To the right, at the end of Pall Mall, is the City Hotel.

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188 x 144 mm. A view of the quartz crushing machines, with the watersluices in the foreground which separate the crushed rock from the gold. The photograph is in fact taken in Bendigo by N.J. Caire and also occurs in Y3087/C5.

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200 x 145 mm. A more exact title for this print, which is by N.J. Claire, is ‘Bendigo Flat as seen from Wattle Hill’ and was taken around 1875. See Y3087C/34 for a note on the picture and another print of the same photograph.

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172 x 123 mm. An exterior view of the market, a long single-storey brick building, with the Town Hall visible behind it to the left, and the Fire Brigade Depot to the right.

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179 x 123 mm. A view from a hillside looking over Bendigo (for some years Bendigo and Sandhurst were interchangeable names for the town). Buildings identified in the key are the Jewish Synagogue, Buckley’s Flour Mills, Oddfellows’ Hall, City Town Hall, and the Shamrock Hotel.

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180 x 127 mm. A view looking over the town, with the railway station and good sheds in the distance. The street crossing the photograph is Pall Mall, intersecting with Mitchell Street and Bath Corner. Buildings identified in the key include the Post Office, the Warden’s Court, Quarry Hill and the City Hotel.

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179 x 126 mm. A view of the savings’ Bank from the street, a stone building with a façade of square pillars and rounded arches.

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178 x 124 mm. A view showing small residential buildings in the foreground, with more sparsely populated ground beyond, and with the Free Methodist Church in the middle distance. The text below the photograph reads ‘This view represents the locality of the Back Creek gold diggings, and though at present almost deserted, was once a scene of activity; in consequence of the rich patches of alluvial ground it contained’.

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179 x 125 mm. A view of the hotel, a sizeable stone building with iron-work verandahs which stands at the junction of Pall Mall and Williamson Street. With several pony traps parked outside.

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125 x 180 mm. A view of the brick-built church, with a square belltower. The church was built in 1868, the tower being added in 1872.

Scope and Contents 179 x 124 mm. A view of the front façade of the building, a large construction in Ionic style, with central pillars and a pediment. The patients and staff pose in front of the building. The text beneath the photograph reads ‘This noble Institution is provided for 100 adults and 150 children. Out-door aid is afforded to 220 families weekly. The average expenditure is £9,000 per annum. The cost of its erection is estimated at £20,000. The Hon. J.F. Sullivan, M.L.A. was the first President. The...