Newspaper Clipping Entitled 'Digging Life 25 Years Ago'

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Museum of Chinese Australian History

Name/Title

Newspaper Clipping Entitled 'Digging Life 25 Years Ago'

Entry/Object ID

1985.7.3

Scope and Content

Original newspaper clipping entitled 'Digging Life 25 Years ago' with a series of sketches; mounted and framed. Each sketch marked 'Aboriginal Dining', 'A Fossicker, Shepherding', Pegleg Gully - The Prospectors' Sunday, 'Below, Pegleg Gully - 10 days afterwards', Pegleg Gully - 12 days afterwards'. Includes image titled: 'Peg Leg Gully-the Prospectors' which shows Chinese miners. Signature for sketches: W Ralston. The Australasian Sketcher, 1879. Part of approx 28 newspaper clippings/etchings. Each sketch marked 'Aboriginal Dining', 'A Fossicker, Shepherding', Pegleg Gully - The Prospectors' Sunday, 'Below, Pegleg Gully - 10 days afterwards', Pegleg Gully - 12 days afterwards'. Signature for sketches: W Ralston Illustration depicts Australia - Victoria - Bendigo (Sandhurst)

Acquisition

Accession

1985.7

Source or Donor

SPENCER SCOTTSANDILANDSGALLERY

Acquisition Method

Purchase

Dimensions

Height

40.8 cm

Width

56 cm