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    'Digging life 25 years ago', 20 December 1879, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).

Title
'Digging life 25 years ago'
Description

Includes image titled: 'Peg Leg Gully-the Prospectors' which shows Chinese miners

Date
20 December 1879
Place
Australia - Victoria - Bendigo (Sandhurst)
External Url
http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=MAIN&reset_config=true&docId=SLV_VOYAGER1656286

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    Title
    'Digging life 25 years ago'
    Description

    'Peg Leg Gully' part of series of drawings titled 'Digging life 25 years ago'

    Date
    20 December 1879
    Type
    Published illustration
    Form
    Mounted and framed newspaper engraving.
    Control
    1985.07.03, P00301, P00601
    Source

    Illustrated newspaper collection, 1985.07, 1730.0003; Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History). Details

    Rights
    Reproduction rights owned by the Chinese Museum
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    Title
    Digging life twenty-five years ago. [picture]
    Description

    One print comprising 9 different views, individual copy negatives available for each image. Shepherding -- Pegleg Gully-the Prospectors -- Sunday -- Be-Low -- Aboriginal [i.e. Aborigine] Dining -- A Fossicker -- Pegleg Gully-10 days Afterwoods. Wood engraving published in The Australasian sketcher.

    Date
    20 December 1879
    Type
    Illustration
    Form
    Print : wood engraving. Published: Melbourne : Alfred May and Alfred Martin Ebsworth.
    Control
    A/S20/12/79/156-157
    Source

    Illustrated newspaper file collection; State Library of Victoria - Picture Collection. Details

    Australian Sketcher, December 20, 1879

    Rights
    Reproduction rights owned by the State Library of Victoria

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Created: 12 February 2003, Last modified: 11 November 2012