Image study: Stage coach laden with luggage and many Chinese people en route to the gold fields

Chinese miners specialized in working over the soil that had already been discarded by other miners ('mullock heaps').  These miners are all wearing western style hats, while there is a large cargo of wide woven-bamboo hats attached to the back of the coach.

 

Photographer unknown, original image c.1860

 

Accession number: H35244

 

From the State Library of Victoria's Picture Collection.

 

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Gold fever