Books to keep an eye out for.

[OldDogNewTrick]

Glad you liked it OldDogNewTricks.

This one has possibly the longest title in history?

Australia and its gold fields : a historical sketch of the progress of the Australian colonies, from the earliest times to the present day : with a particular account of the recent gold discoveries and observations on the present aspect of the land question : to which are added notices on the use and working of gold in ancient and modern times and an examination of the theories as to the sources of gold
by Edward Hammond Hargraves
1855
https://www.dropbox.com/s/y1ry07debsyz80h/Australia and its Gold Fields_EH Hargraves (1855).pdf?dl=0

Yet another trove of great historical records relating to our goldfields and their early administrators....great reading

 

[TheMediocritist]

:Y:

This one may overlap with the previously posted Mossman book and another Banister book not yet posted. Im still looking for a version with complete maps. Theyve documented fairly extensive travels through the Victorian and NSW gold fields, with each area handily chaptered. If youre interested in Turon for example, you might skip to p226 for a first-hand account of the area, people and gold as they were 165 years ago.

Australia visited and revisited : a narrative of recent travels and old experiences in Victoria and New South Wales
Samuel Mossman & Thomas Banister
1853
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4swt6sc63... Revisited_Mossman & Banister (1853).pdf?dl=0

Alternative copy here:
http://aiatsis.gov.au/sites/default/files/catalogue_resources/m0022732.pdf

 

[Jemba]

TM exultant books mate thanks. :Y:

 

[Lotto]

Amazing books to find. cheers :Y:

 

[Jaros]

Thanks T.M., this will be great camp reading-when I get out there. :Y:

 

[Jemba]

Title Ironbarks, N.S.W. (later named Stuart Town)

Creator American & Australasian Photographic Company
Call number ON 4 Box 69 No A
Level of description
series Date 1870-1875
Type of material Graphic Materials, Photographs
Reference code 63817
Issue Copy Copy print : PXA 4999 Available on Open Access shelves in Mitchell Library Original Materials Reading Room
Physical Description Photographs - 10 in. x 12 in. - 1 glass photonegative Copying Conditions Out of copyright: Created before 1955.
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/

Streetscape and Golden Age Hotel, Trunkey, N.S.W.

Creator American & Australasian Photographic Company
Call number ON 4 Box 72 No S
Level of description series
Date 1870-1875
Type of material Graphic Materials, Photographs
Reference code 63881
Issue Copy
Copy print : PXA 4999 Available on Open Access shelves in Mitchell Library Original Materials Reading Room
Physical Description Photographs - 10 in. x 12 in. - 1 glass photonegative Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/

Title Mine head & group of gold miners, Gulgong area

Creator American & Australasian Photographic Company
Call number ON 4 Box 4 No 18418
Level of description series
Date 1870-1875
Type of material Graphic Materials, Photographs
Reference code 62308
Issue Copy
Copy print : PXA 4999 Available on Open Access shelves in Mitchell Library Original Materials Reading Room
Physical Description
Photographs - Quarter plate - 1 glass photonegative
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/

Title Mine head with group of gold miners, Gulgong area

Creator
American & Australasian Photographic Company
Call number ON 4 Box 3 No 18270
Level of description series
Date 1870-1875
Type of material Graphic Materials, Photographs
Reference code 62167
Issue Copy
Copy print : PXA 4999 Available on Open Access shelves in Mitchell Library Original Materials Reading Room
Physical Description
Photographs - Quarter plate - 1 glass photonegative
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/

Title Gold mine, Wilson's Reef, Trunkey

Creator American & Australasian Photographic Company
Call number ON 4 Box 51 No 115
Level of description series
Date 1870-1875
Type of material Graphic Materials, Photographs
Reference code 63355
Issue Copy
Copy print : PXA 4999 Available on Open Access shelves in Mitchell Library Original Materials Reading Room
Physical Description
Photographs - 10 in. x 12 in. - 1 glass photonegative
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/

 

[Jemba]

Title Girls & bark hut, Gulgong

Creator American & Australasian Photographic Company
Call number ON 4 Box 2 No 18172
Date 1870-1875 Reference code 62074
Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Creator American & Australasian Photographic Company
Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/

Greencrocer's store, Home Rule

Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/

Group of gold mines on Hawkins Hill, showing Turon Valley in background, Hill End

Call number ON 4 Box 49 No 18
Date 1870-1875
Copying Conditions Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Creator American & Australasian Photographic Company
Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/

Gold mines on Hawkins Hill looking south, Hill End

Call number ON 4 Box 49 No 33
Date 1870-1875
Copying Conditions Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Creator American & Australasian Photographic Company
Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/

Steam winch drawing an ore bucket from a goldmine, Hill End

Call number ON 4 Box 49 No 27
Date 1870-1875
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Creator American & Australasian Photographic Company
Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/

Possibly the "Scandinavian" mine head, Hill End

Call number ON 4 Box 6 No 18569
Date 1870-1875
Copying Conditions Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Creator American & Australasian Photographic Company
Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/

 

[Tathradj]

Brilliant Photo's Jemba. :Y: :Y: :Y:
Thank You.

 

[Heatho]

Fantastic photos, thanks for posting them. :Y:

 

[madtuna]

Brilliant photos! Thanks for posting

 

[Dolphin]

Thx Jemba,
Really enjoy the photos and History, Amazing incite, Next time i pass through Trunkey i'll appreciate where it's come from.
Dolphin.

 

[Jemba]

Thanks guy's, yep i love the old photo's as well they give you a lot of information if you know what to look for. As an example if you are detecting around the old mine sites the ore cart roads are worth note. Why well to my way of thinking some ore must have come of the wagons be it ever so small. :Y:

 

[Whisp]

Stunning photos, amazing clarity and detail

 

[Jemba]

Horses and carts deliver ore to puddling machine on the goldfield, Gulgong area

Creator American & Australasian Photographic Company
Call number ON 4 Box 4 No 18371
Date 1870-1875
Type of material Graphic Materials, Photographs
Reference code 62262
Copying Conditions Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Gold mine whim, Trunkey

Creator American & Australasian Photographic Company
Call number ON 4 Box 51 No 119
Date 1870-1875
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Group around blacksmith's shed, Canadian Lead

Creator American & Australasian Photographic Company
Call number ON 4 Box 4 No 18381
Date 1870-1875
Copying Conditions Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Title: [Horse pulling a whim, Mafeking and Mount William goldfields]
Author/Creator: Hale, W. photographer.
Notes: Photographs are dated from an advertisement in the Mount William Pioneer of August 3, 1900 that stated that photographs of the fields could be obtained from Davis' tea pot store.
Notes: Gift of Mrs. Chris Davis, via Mr. Allan Campbell, 1998.
Notes: Gold was discovered at Mt. William near Mafeking, in June 1900.
Contents/Summary: Shows a horse operating a whim, while a miner stands by. Tents can be seen in the background and various pieces of equipment including a panning dish and supplies are to the right.
Date created: [1900]
Series/Collection: Photographs of the Mount William and Mafeking goldfields.
Terms of use: No copyright restrictions apply.
Copyright status: This work is out of copyright
https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/

 

[madtuna]

The pedestal vice in the second last photo...I have the exact same one sitting in the paddock here adjacent to the old blacksmiths shop.

Again excellent photos thanks for sharing.

 

[RM Outback]

Yeah awesome photos :Y: and history thanks for posting.

 

[Jemba]

:Y: I never get sick of viewing the old photo's my word they done it hard hey. cheers Jemba

 

[Jemba]

Getting gold : an ABC of prospecting in Australia explaining in simple, non-technical language, the methods of getting gold by means of panning, cradling, puddling, dollying, sluicing, etc. / by Fossicker.
http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/156878

Guide to the Palmer River and Normanby gold fields, North Queensland, showing the different roads to and from the Etheridge River, Cleveland Bay, and Cooktown, with map of the Palmer River and adjacent gold fields, and, Journal of explorations / by James V. Mulligan.
http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/93172

The gold digger's guide, or, Practical mining made easy / by H.V. Rogers.
http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/244331

Suggestions to prospectors / by R.A.F. Murray.
http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/94275

Gold / by T.C. Dickson ; illustrations by Len Annois.
http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/183224

The Whroo gold mines / [the Rushworth Chronicle].
[Rushworth, Vic. : Rushworth Chronicle 1890
http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/135500

The emigrant in Australia, or, Gleanings from the gold-fields / by an Australian journalist ; with illustrations, taken on the spot, by J.S. Prout.
http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/111477

An enquiry into the effect produced by the deluge upon alluvial deposits of gold in Australia : position and state in which these deposits are found / by William Gardner.
http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/110393

Creswick gold field
http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/118090

Plan of the Ballarat & Sebastopol gold mines showing the various claims & leases [cartographic material] / compiled by Robt. Allan.
http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/129434

Mount Wills gold field surveyed by Ernest Lidgey
http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/118064

Goldfields reminiscences, 1851 to 1884 / by Bonanza.
http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/85347

Virgin gold and how to win it / by James Holt. Valuable paper on the cyanide process for extracting gold from tailings, etc. / by G.G. Turri. Notes on recent discoveries, with routes, etc. / by James Stirling.
http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/85265

Sandhurst gold field
http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/118549

Creswick gold field
http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/118086

Malmsbury & Lauriston gold field
http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/117550

 

[Jemba]

Here are a few more books & maps you can download if you wish. :Y:

Letters from the diggings : a true picture of Australia and the gold fields.
London : G. Berger

http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/111004

Australian sketches : the gold discovery, bush graves &c, &c. / by Thomas M'Combie.
Thomas McCombie

http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/288172

Berlin Gold Field

http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/139892

Small-scale placer mines as a source of gold, employment, and livelihood

http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/85981

Map & guide to the Mount Baw Baw gold fields

http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/247196

Geological map, Daylesford gold field

http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/170450

Quartz crushing : can all the gold be extracted from the quartz? Yes! : with a plan for new portable machinery / by A. Hamon

http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/246341

Map of the Den gold fields and Ifracombe iron deposits, Tasmania / W.C. Piguenit,

http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-231572008/view

The gold digger

http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/111509

Sketch map, Omeo and Dry Gully gold field

http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/118076

The goldfields of Victoria

http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/85926

Chiltern and Rutherglen gold fields

http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/118257

Plan shewing the tracks to the Jordan gold fields

http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/120509
A concise history of Maldon and the Tarrangower diggings

http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/185466

Rough sketch shewing tracks from Sale to the Jordan gold fields

http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/120545

Guide to the Palmer River and Normanby gold fields, North Queensland

http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/93172

Winters Freehold Gold Mining Company registered area 1359 acres

http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/69671

A treatise on gold discovery and gold washing : with description of a patent washing machine for economising labour

http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/85278

 

[Dron]

This thread should be made a sticky for all the hard work that has gone into it. Tonnes of valuable information! :Y: :Y: