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Photograph

Title
Unidentified tin mine and battery
Description

Despite the caption a number of the figures working on the mine appear to be of Chinese ancestry.

Date
c. 1904
Place
Australia - Northern Territory
Interpretive description

The location of this photograph is disputed. An early annotation on the image suggests it is the Howell mine at Brock Creek and a later annotation by Norman Bell that it is Yam Creek.

Versions

  1. Print
    Title
    Mine Battery and 2 tin sheds.
    Description

    2 Aboriginals in foreground and 2 men in European clothes in background as well as dray with 3 horses (maybe Horseshoe Creek Tin Battery c1904)

    Date
    c. 1904
    Type
    Print
    Form
    Annotation by Norman Bell on photograph suggests that it is Yam Creek and a pen annotation which looks to have been written before Bell's says its Howell at Brocks Creek.
    Control
    16
    Source

    NTRS 3158 Photographs featuring the Northern Territory [Previously registered as F318] ca.1887-1959, c. 1885 - c. 1905, NTRS 3158 (previously F318]; Kilgour, John; Northern Territory Archives Service, Darwin Branch. Details

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Created: 16 August 2006, Last modified: 5 January 2007