- Title
- Tin miners, Stanthorpe mineral district
- Date
- c. 1873
- Place
- Australia - Queensland - Stanthorpe
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- Title
- Tin miners, Stanthorpe mineral district, ca. 1873
- Description
The early part of William Boag's career was spent in Sydney where he was in partnership with portrait photographer Joseph Charles Milligan. (Images made by Boag are in the collection of the Campbelltown and Airds Historical Society.)
Boag arrived in Queensland in November 1871. He travelled around the south-east, along the foreshore of Moreton Bay and the township of Cleveland. He then moved into the Logan and Albert area where he captured images of local crushing mills and sugar plantations. While at Yatala, he took on a partner, John Henry Mills, and by the end of 1872, both men were in Stanthorpe where they remained for several months, producing views of the booming tin-mining settlement.Although in many parts of the tin fields, a prospector might discover a few grains of tin in a pie-dish full of sand scooped up near a creek, other speculators cut trenches into the ground in pursuit of walnut-sized pieces of ore. Some of the men in this photograph may have been Chinese labourers who worked hard at extracting this richer material. The heap of refuse at left, is discarded mining spoil.
- Date
- c. 1873
- Type
- catalogue record + digital image
- Form
- copy print : b&w
- Creator
- Boag, William, 1838?-1878
- Control
- P980; 20180; picqld-ACR_0207--2003-11-14-11-46
- Source
Album GS 66, GS 66; State Library of Queensland - John Oxley. Details
- Rights
- Reproduction rights owned by the State Library of Queensland.
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Created: 3 October 2004, Last modified: 12 April 2006
