Gold Escort
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Gold Escorts were common across Australian goldfields, transporting mined and processed material from mines to banks and mints across the country.
A pen and ink watercolour painting of the Gold Escort in Victoria by W. Drummond (1852)
Victorian gold rush
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The Victorian gold rush was a period in the history of Victoria, Australia, approximately between 1851 and the late 1860s. It led to a period of extreme prosperity for the Australian colony and an inf
Richard Daintree and Antoine Fauchery (circa 1858) A gang of diggers at Forrest Creek, Chewton
Fossickers in the Nerrena Creek outside Ballarat
Canvas Town, South Melbourne in the 1850s
Ballarat's tent city just a couple of years after the discovery of gold in the district. Oil painting from an original 1853 sketch by Eugene von Guerard.