Antoine Fauchery
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Antoine Julien Nicolas Fauchery was a French adventurer, writer and photographer with republican sympathies. He participated in the national uprising in Poland in 1848, opened a photographic studio in
Fauchery c. 1858
Group of diggers, Castlemaine, from Fauchery and Daintree, Sun pictures of Victoria
Le Comte Lionel de Chabrillan (1818-1858) consul for France at Melbourne, 1852-1858
Bourke Street looking west from Spring Street, Melbourne, Victoria
Jim Crow goldfield
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The Jim Crow goldfield was part of the Goldfields region of Victoria, Australia, where gold was mined from the mid- to the late-nineteenth century.
Antoine Fauchery
…Melbourne to serve Europeans in the colony, who could meet and play billiards there. Later in an unsuccessful venture, he kept a provisions store at the Jim Crow gold diggings (Daylesford). Fauchery returned to UK/Europe in 1856 on the Roxburg Castle, but missed the successful staging of a play he wrote with Théodore Barrière…
Richard Daintree (1858) Jim-Crow Diggings, near Daylesford
Richard Daintree (1857/8) Great Eastern Tunnel, 1500 feet long, Jim Crow diggings