Historic Photo Gallery

Historic Photo Gallery

The following photographs are presented by courtesy of the Ballarat Historical Society Inc. Collection jointly housed by the Gold Museum, Ballarat and the Ballarat Library. They are early photographs depicting aspects of the Victorian gold rushes.

To analyse these pictures, try to answer three questions:

1. What is going on here?
2. How do we know?
3. What else is going on?

	Ballarat Bicycle Club at the Botanic Gardens 1883. Note the two ladies bicycles
	Chinese Camp, Golden Point 1886
	The S.E Corner of Sturt and Lydiard Sts where mining shares were traded
	James Esmond in later life. He was the first to find gold at Clunes
	Thomas Hiscock. Finder of gold in Buninyong
	A miners hut near Ballarat.
	Cabs at Mark’s corner in Sturt St, Ballarat 1880s
	Panning for Gold
	Old Post office Hill, Golden Point, 1853. The present site of Sovereign Hill
	A puddling machine
	Rogers & Co, Tailors. Cnr Sturt and Errard Sts, 1875