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825512
  • Title
    Series 02: Glass negatives 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
    ON 333
  • Level of description
    series
  • Date

    ca. 1905-1931
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    825512
  • Physical Description
    9 negatives - glass - 16.2 x 11.8 cm
  • Scope and Content
    1. Australian Alum Company. Old Quarry and tramline down dump
    2. Looking down incline
    3. Myall quarry – men standing in entrance
    4. South of Tunnel quarry
    5. Another view of heap C. King looking over fence
    6. Shows base of incline, heap and tramway track with horses, men and filled rail skip truck
    7. Alunite from Myall quarry being tipped into incline skip then to port
    8. Manager’s house – Alum Mountain in background
    9. Heaps of alunite at foot of incline, 1918
  • Access Conditions

    Access via appointment
  • 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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