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    'Chinamen at work on the gold-fields', 25 August 1863, courtesy of State Library of Victoria.

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Title
'Chinamen at work on the gold-fields'
Description

The engraving shows several Chinese gold diggers in coolie hats working in layered excavations. There is a long flume and possibly a sluice box centre and right of the image. The scene is at the Mount Alexander gold diggings near Castlemaine.

Date
25 August 1863
Control
Accession Number: IAN25/08/63/5, Image Number: mp000662
Archival Source
Pictures Collection; State Library of Victoria. Details
Rights
Courtesy State Library of Victoria

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