[GOLD RUSH] Gold diggers : tub & cradle process.

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[Title from manuscript caption on mount]. [1862]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 74 x 73 mm (arched-top format), on pink card mount 83 x 175 mm; recto of mount with original manuscript inscription in ink at bottom margin Gold Diggers Tub Cradle Process ; both prints have rich tonal range and excellent clarity; the mount has a stain at the right-hand edge (not seriously affecting the print), and the original Scots-Australian owner s name McMillan in pencil on the back. This early Victorian stereoscopic view is a truly iconic photographic image of the Australian gold rushes. The photograph was taken by travelling photographer John H. Jones, prior to September 1862 (see below). The image is reproduced on page 12 of the Bendigo Art Gallery s 2013 exhibition catalogue of Jones stereoscopic views, Her Majesty s Territories: Stereographic Views of Australian Sceneries (essay by Alva Maguire). Note that the present example is on a variant plain mount that most likely predates the BAG s views, which all have the imprint Jones s Photographs of Australian Sceneries . The State Library of Victoria (Accession no: H2017.75/8) holds the glass negative of this stereoscopic view the only other example in Australian institutional collections. Although the biographical information we have for John H. Jones (1817?-1872) is only sketchy, newspaper advertisements and articles from late 1862 and 1863 give a very clear idea of his modus operandi as photographic entrepre

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