Catalogue Nbr:

104.79

 

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Description:

Collage of pictures and information relating to Walter M. Hitchcock who made a model of the first miners tent erected on Ballarat township in 1851. Tent was built by 'Messrs. John Masters Garratt, John Odgers, Thos. March Hall and Walter M. Hitchcock'. A photograph of W.M. Hitchcock (then aged 20) taken in Geelong on his return from Ballarat, A.D. 1852. *All articles have been mounted on cardboard.

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Subject Date: 1851
Subject Location: Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Object Type: Photograph
Object Location: 210
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Object Condition: Fair. Yellowed paper. Silverfish damage on photograph.