Gold Rush
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![[CHINESE PRINTING] Garden License issued at Sandhurst (Bendigo) to William Hyde, dated 28 August 1883.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/05/2023_DSFB_2873-300x300.jpg)
# 40073
COLONY OF VICTORIA. Department of Lands and Survey.
[CHINESE PRINTING] Garden License issued at Sandhurst (Bendigo) to William Hyde, dated 28 August 1883.
Melbourne : Government printer, [1883]. Lithograph printing, 210 x 220 mm, printed on both sides with parallel text in English and Chinese characters; manuscript entries record the issue of the License to William Hyde of Sandhurst on 28 August 1883; the License (no. 122155) authorizes Hyde to maintain a garden and residence on Crown Lands …
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![[GOLD RUSH] Display of gold from the Colony of Victoria at the International Exhibition, London, 1862](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2020/01/08164638/2020_DSFB_0121-2-300x300.jpg)
# 40072
LONDON STEREOSCOPIC & PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY
[GOLD RUSH] Display of gold from the Colony of Victoria at the International Exhibition, London, 1862
London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company, 1862. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, 80 x 80 mm each image (arched format), on yellow mount 84 x 173 mm; recto with printed title: The International Exhibition of 1862: No. 141 – N. E. Transcept, and Australian Gold Case; under magnification, the sign on the case reads: The Stamping Machine / Victoria …
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# 39453
Photographer unknown.
Two views of the Diamond Creek gold mine, near Melbourne, mid 1870s.
I. Albumen print photograph, 195 x 260 mm, laid down recto of a 19th-century album page of thin card; fully contemporary manuscript caption in ink to the mount: ‘View of Diamond Creek Gold Mine, near Melbourne’; the print as some minor fading at the edges but otherwise is in very good condition, the excellent clarity …
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# 39465
HEWITT, Charles (1837-1912)
Mine owners and their families at Cahill’s Reward Gold Mining Company’s mine near Stawell, Victoria, 1895.
Sepia-tone gelatin silver print photograph, 205 x 155 mm, laid down on its original mount of thickish board; verso of the mount with the wet stamp (in violet) of ‘Stawell Photographic Co., close Railway Station, C. Hewitt, Manager’, and the wet stamp (in red) of ‘Cahill’s Reward Gold Mining Co.’; a superb print – incredibly …
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![[SHEET MUSIC] Australia March](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/03/2023_DSFB_1372-300x300.jpg)
# 39188
LEWIS, John W. (composer)
[SHEET MUSIC] Australia March
/ Composed for the piano by John W. Lewis. Boston : Oliver Ditson, 1854. First edition. Folio bifolium (330 x 250 mm), disbound; 2 pp music notation (arrangement for piano), the first page with decorative title; as issued, with plain front and rear sides; on this copy, the original owner has annotated the front with …
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# 37502
Photographer unknown.
Large group of gold miners at Mount Egerton, near Ballarat, circa 1890.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 111 x 166 mm; no photographer’s imprint; verso inscribed in a much later hand: ‘Gold mine pit head, Mount Egerton, 1900-1908, not any later. My grandfather died 1908 and he is in the photo. I believe it is either Whipstick or Princess Regent Mine‘; the print is in very …
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# 37854
REILLY, Dianne & Jennifer CAREW
Sun Pictures of Victoria : The Fauchery-Daintree Collection 1858
Melbourne : Library Council of Victoria, 1983. First edition. Quarto (295 x 260 mm), publisher’s gilt-lettered black cloth over boards, in pictorial dust jacket (lightly rubbed), pp 143, with 53 full-page photographic plates, introductory essay, notes and references; a very good copy. The French photographer and writer Antoine Fauchery (1823-1861) arrived in Australia in 1852 and …
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![[GOLD RUSH] Gold diggers : tub & cradle process.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/08/19102058/2022_DSFB_5089.jpg)
# 36663
[JONES, John H., 1817?-1872]
[GOLD RUSH] Gold diggers : tub & cradle process.
[Title from manuscript caption on mount]. [1862]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 74 x 73 mm (arched-top format), on pink card mount 83 x 175 mm; recto of mount with original manuscript inscription in ink at bottom margin Gold Diggers Tub & Cradle Process; both prints have rich tonal range and excellent clarity; the mount has a …
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![[GOLD RUSH] The noble ship Manchester in great danger, From continuing the services of a Pilot of the Egyptian Bondage Sea, in lieu of a Pilot of the Service of the Free Emigration Australian Sea.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/10/14151214/2022_DSFB_6424.jpg)
# 37333
TAUNTON, Edmund
[GOLD RUSH] The noble ship Manchester in great danger, From continuing the services of a Pilot of the Egyptian Bondage Sea, in lieu of a Pilot of the Service of the Free Emigration Australian Sea.
[Drop-head title:] [Birmingham?] : [s.n.], [1853]. Broadside, folio sheet 430 x 280 mm, with ‘Second edition’ printed above the title at upper right; verso addressed in manuscript to The Right Honorable Viscount Palmerston, MP, Secretary, Home Department, London with the date of 3 November, and with two contemporary postal markings which record that it was sent from Birmingham on …
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![[GOLD RUSH] Printed circular with price list for foodstuffs, building materials, wines and spirits, tea and coffee, tobacco, wool, hides, gold etc.; mailed to Launceston from Melbourne on the day of issue, 8 August 1853.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2021/09/27101443/2021_DSFB_6668-300x300.jpg)
# 32324
COFFEY, HILL & CO. (MELBOURNE)
[GOLD RUSH] Printed circular with price list for foodstuffs, building materials, wines and spirits, tea and coffee, tobacco, wool, hides, gold etc.; mailed to Launceston from Melbourne on the day of issue, 8 August 1853.
Melbourne : Hough & Co., Printers, Elizabeth St., 8 August 1853. Quarto bifolium, 250 x 200 mm, blue wove paper, printed on the first side only and folded for mailing, with manuscript address panel on the last side; sent from Melbourne by Coffey, Hill & Co. to ‘W Johnstone Esq, Launceston’; unframed PAID MELBOURNE AU …
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![[GOLD RUSH] Decorative billhead for the Miner's Store of John S. Cragg, Wholesale & Retail Ironmonger, 11 Swanston St. South, Melbourne. Dated 12 October 1854.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/08/09121028/2022_DSFB_4817-300x300.jpg)
# 36627
R. QUARRILL & CO. [QUARRILL, Reuben, 1828-1904]
[GOLD RUSH] Decorative billhead for the Miner’s Store of John S. Cragg, Wholesale & Retail Ironmonger, 11 Swanston St. South, Melbourne. Dated 12 October 1854.
Melbourne : R. Quarrill & Co., Lithographers, 74 Collins St. West, [1854]. Lithographed billhead, 195 x 240 mm, with vignette view of the premises of John S. Cragg’s Miner’s Store at the Yarra end of Swanston Street; manuscript date of 12 October 1854, with entries recording the sale of a soup tureen and ladle for £1 10/- to …
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![[GOLD RUSH; EUREKA REBELLION] Report from the Select Committee of the Legislative Council on Ballaarat compensation, (Bentley's Hotel,) together with the proceedings of the Committee. Ordered by the Council to be printed, 14th March, 1856.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/08/12104106/2022_DSFB_4829-300x300.jpg)
# 36449
VICTORIA. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
[GOLD RUSH; EUREKA REBELLION] Report from the Select Committee of the Legislative Council on Ballaarat compensation, (Bentley’s Hotel,) together with the proceedings of the Committee. Ordered by the Council to be printed, 14th March, 1856.
Melbourne : John Ferres, Government printer, 1856. Foolscap folio, 4 pp; roughened along one edge, else very good.
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![[GOLD RUSH; EUREKA REBELLION] Mr. B. S. Hassall. Claim for compensation. With copies of evidence, &c. Return to Address, Mr. Humffray, 21st February, 1856.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/08/12104111/2022_DSFB_4831-300x300.jpg)
# 36448
VICTORIA. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
[GOLD RUSH; EUREKA REBELLION] Mr. B. S. Hassall. Claim for compensation. With copies of evidence, &c. Return to Address, Mr. Humffray, 21st February, 1856.
Melbourne : John Ferres, Government printer, 1856. Foolscap folio, 3 pp; fine. Benden Sherral Hassall, publican of the London Hotel, Ballarat, was shot in the leg by soldiers after giving them directions to the Government Camp on the night of 28 November 1854.
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![[GOLD RUSH; EUREKA REBELLION] Ballaarat outbreak. Petition. Ordered by the Council to be printed, 18th December, 1855.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/08/12104116/2022_DSFB_4833-300x300.jpg)
# 36447
VICTORIA. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
[GOLD RUSH; EUREKA REBELLION] Ballaarat outbreak. Petition. Ordered by the Council to be printed, 18th December, 1855.
Melbourne : John Ferres, Government printer, 1855. Foolscap folio, 1 page; fine. Petition with 752 signatures, claiming compensation from the government on the grounds ‘that during and after certain disturbances, which happened on the Eureka, on and about the third December, 1854, there was a wanton and uncalled for destruction of the property of those …
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![[GOLD RUSH; EUREKA REBELLION] Ballaarat Riots. Expenses of Troops and Police. Return to Address. Mr. Wheeler, 17th January, 1856.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/08/12104121/2022_DSFB_4835-300x300.jpg)
# 36446
VICTORIA. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
[GOLD RUSH; EUREKA REBELLION] Ballaarat Riots. Expenses of Troops and Police. Return to Address. Mr. Wheeler, 17th January, 1856.
Laid upon the Council table by the Chief Secretary, by command of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, and Ordered by the Council to be printed, 17th March, 1856. Melbourne : John Ferres, Government printer, 1856. Foolscap folio, 6 pp; fine. Provides a detailed breakdown of the government’s expenditure on enforcing law and order …
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![[GOLD RUSH; EUREKA REBELLION] Claims for compensation for injuries and losses sustained during the Ballaarat Riots, and report of Commission thereon. Return to Address. Mr. Grant, December 7, 1855.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/08/12104126/2022_DSFB_4837-300x300.jpg)
# 36445
VICTORIA. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
[GOLD RUSH; EUREKA REBELLION] Claims for compensation for injuries and losses sustained during the Ballaarat Riots, and report of Commission thereon. Return to Address. Mr. Grant, December 7, 1855.
Laid upon the Council table by the Chief Secretary, by command of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, and Ordered by the Council to be printed, 10th January, 1856. Melbourne : John Ferres, Government printer, 1856. Foolscap folio, 6 pp; fine. This document provides a return of claims presented to the Government by over …