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Residents of Mount Gambier: Aboriginal camp

Nixon, Stephen E., c. 1875, Photograph, B 3063

Group of Aborigines sitting in front of a wurley.

Residents of Mount Gambier: Blue Lake

Nixon, Stephen E., c. 1875, Photograph, B 3063/A

View of the Blue Lake, Mount Gambier.

Residents of Mount Gambier: Mrs Turner

Thomas J. J. Wyatt, c. 1875, Photograph, B 2995

Mrs Turner, sister of Alexander Mitchell. Arrived at Mount Gambier about 1856.

Residents of Mount Gambier: Robert Cock

c. 1875, Photograph, B 2996

Robert Cock, brewer of Mount Gambier, erected the brewery on the site of Sandford's bacon factory (see Boothby's Almanac for further information.).

Residents of Mount Gambier: Abraham Wallace

c. 1875, Photograph, B 2997

Studio portrait of Abraham Wallace who arrived in Mount Gambier district about 1851. Afterwards took up Sturt's Meadows station near the Barrier and Elsey Station, Northern Territory. Husband of the author of 'Twelves years in Australia'.

Residents of Mount Gambier: Julius Heinemann

c. 1875, Photograph, B 2998

Studio portrait of Julius Heinemann, saddler of Mount Gambier. (See Boothby's Almanac 1871 for further information.).

Residents of Mount Gambier: Mrs P. Moore

Johnstone, O'Shannessy & Co., c. 1875, Photograph, B 3001

Studio portrait of Mrs Patrick Moore, nee Joanna Fitzgerald, of Mount Gambier.

Residents of Mount Gambier: Paxton, Harrald & Laurie

Wyatt, Thomas J. J., c. 1875, Photograph, B 3003

Studio portrait of (left to right) Charles Paxton (accountant at National Bank), W.H. Harrald and Andrew Frederick Laurie (founder and part proporietor of the 'Border Watch') all of Mount Gambier. (See Boothby's Almanac 1865 for further details on Paxton and B 3003/A for Laurie.).

Residents of Mount Gambier: W.H. Harrald

Wyatt, Thomas J. J., c. 1875, Photograph, B 3004

Studio portrait of W.H. Harrald, accountant of Mount Gambier. (See Boothby's Almanacs in the 1960s for further information.).

Residents of Mount Gambier: James Lawrence Stapleton

Wyatt, Thomas J. J., c. 1865, Photograph, B 3005

Studio portrait of James Lawrence Stapleton, Victorian telegraph station master at Mount Gambier. (See Boothby's Almanac 1965 for further information.).