Gold mines Bendigo Vict. Australia – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Gold mines Bendigo Vict. Australia, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Gold mines Bendigo Vict. Australia
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Bendigo, in the Victorian goldfields of central Victoria, Australia, was one of the great gold-rush towns of the 1850s, and this 1921 stereograph records mining there long after the first rush had passed. The subject is hydraulic mining, a method that used high-pressure jets of water to wash gold-bearing earth out of hillsides and into sluices for separation. Issued by Underwood & Underwood, a firm known for its travel stereoviews sold to American households, the card was meant to be viewed through a stereoscope and to show distant places in three dimensions. Its subject, a working landscape of gold extraction, offers a window onto how the old goldfields were still being worked in the early twentieth century.
| Created / published | 1921 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | J246818 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 24247. · Underwood & Underwood copyright claimant. |
| Subjects | Gold mining--Victoria--Bendigo--1920-1930. Hydraulic mining--Victoria--Bendigo--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,253 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-STV-271517 |
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