[GOLD MINING] Three photographs documenting gold sluicing at Uralla on the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales, early 1890s.

Three albumen print photographs in identical 140 x 200 mm format, each with the photographer’s manuscript captions and consecutive serial numbers (999-1000-1001) in the negative; all preserved as issued, mounted on the original green backing sheets, 230 x 190 mm, imprinted in red ink, upper centre: ‘C. RUDD, VIEW SPECIALIST, 257 BOURKE STREET.’, at l.l. ‘C. RUDD, View Specialist’, at l.r.: ‘257 Bourke Street (close to Swanston St.), Melbourne.’, and bottom margin centre ‘VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPHS’ (sic); the prints and secondary supports are all in excellent condition.

Trove locates no copies of any of these views in Australian collections.