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Print
825510
  • Title
    Series 01: Photographic prints of gold, copper and alunite mining at Mt. Alum and other places in New South Wales, ca. 1905-1931 / photographed by Ernest Walter Heighway
  • Call number
    PXB 456
  • Level of description
    series
  • Date

    ca. 1905-1931
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    825510
  • Physical Description
    20 photographic prints - gelatin silver - 21.6 x 16.8 cm
  • Scope and Content
    1. Tennis party at rear of manager’s house, Alum Mountain. Weatherboard shack is kitchen
    2. Manager’s house, Alum Mt.
    3-5. Armistice Day – outside McNevins Hotel, Bulahdelah
    6. Mrs E.W. Heighway seated inside manager’s house, Alum Mountain, Bulahdelah
    7. Nil Desperandum – Forbes, 1905
    8-9. Miners in quarry
    10. Ships at Circular Quay
    11. Main shaft, Cadia Copper mine
    12. The old beam engine, Cadia
    13a. Central portion of Calarie township
    13b. Another part of Calerie township
    13c. The camp – Forbes
    13d. The Slimes Plant – Lachlan
    14a. Lachlan gold mine – Forbes
    14b. Nil Desperandum gold mine – Forbes
    14c. North Lachlan gold mine – Forbes
    14d. Back view Lachlan mine, shows cyanide plant
  • Description source

    See Alum Mountain, Bulahdelah, N.S.W. / Ted Baker. Bulahdelah District Historical Society, 1985 2nd ed.
    Photographs identified by donor
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