Tag: gold fields
member name: James Moylan
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April 18, 2006 06:41 AM EDT --
I keep a photocopy of this long forgotten newspaper article in a nearby file. It is one of those memories I return to every now and again. For some reason this item has always talked very directly to something . . .
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April 18, 2006 01:46 AM EDT --
In this series I will present four sets of photos and say nothing beyond providing captions
These were taken at the Lady Norman Gold Mill, high up in the spine of the Clarke Ranges north of Mackay, in . . .
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April 18, 2006 03:14 AM EDT --
taken on a boiling hot late November afternoon (2000) out on the gibber plain at Marengo.
These poverty shacks at Marengo (dating to the Depression years) took a long time finding. I had begun to think . . .
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April 18, 2006 09:46 AM EDT --
I have provided a full copy of the text below and a full copy of the original small booklet in the images
This document provides a wonderful insight into the nature of the market and the concerns of . . .
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April 19, 2006 12:27 AM EDT --
I am enthusiastic about history and hope to enthuse others. I find sights like this stamper mill on the Little Wanderer mine at Mt Britten to be intriguing. But while I am anxious to advertise the presence . . .
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March 09, 2006 04:46 AM EST --
Once in a lifetime!
Imagine you are a researcher on a routine house call and you reach under a bed and pull out a box that has been moldering away for more than eighty years.
To find the private papers . . .
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March 13, 2006 04:05 AM EST --
John Henry Mills loved a portrait.
He took photo's of proud home owners, upstanding businessmen, wild aboriginals, friends, aquaintances, and strangers.
He also sold miniature photographic portraits . . .
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April 11, 2006 02:20 AM EDT --
Slikker the Gold Detective and the case of the anxious aristocrat.
Mt Britton gold field. Nth Qld. Australia.
Friday the 13th of June. 1884.
a flash looking cove.
While Slikker washed and changed . . .
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March 10, 2006 06:20 AM EST --
In town,
in the bush,
they all want to show off their home!
Be it ever so humble - there is no place like home.
These photos were taken three generations ago but look so familiar.
We are so alike . . .
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March 10, 2006 09:53 AM EST --
As I worked on the photo's I was very aware of the historic and scientific import of the collection.
But I was also constantly reminded that these artifacts held deeper layers of meaning.
They chronicled . . .
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April 11, 2006 03:48 AM EDT --
Slikker the Gold Detective and the tragic events at the Uncle Leaper mine.
The Mateship. Mackay. Monday the 1st of February 1892.
the Price.
Mrs Evans, the housekeeper at The Mateship, is hardly . . .
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March 10, 2006 04:43 AM EST --
Having settled on the Mt Britton (or Britten) gold field, in 1881, JHM set up a photographic studio catering to the needs of the small community.
Many of the activities JHM catalogued were considered . . .
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March 11, 2006 12:21 AM EST --
These two topics - transport and destinations - just go together.
After all - every human wants to be a tourist.
And we all gotta get there somehow.
So let's board a transport of delight . . .
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February 23, 2006 04:53 AM EST --
Original Writings of the Mining pioneers of Queensland.
Ripping good yarns from long long ago and far far away
selected to provide interest, distraction, and amusement on a cold wet weekend
by . . .
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