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Mount Wells Tin Mine [B 46808] • Photograph

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Summary

Mount Wells Tin Mine. According to a researcher, Albert Henry Wilson may be one of the men in this image. He was born in Somerset, England in 1842 and migrated to Brisbane, Queensland in ca. 1856 claiming to be 18 and a carpenter (as was his father). He worked on a cattle farm, Proston Station, about 200 km north west of Brisbane for several years where he married the Station cook, Mary Cahill. He then became a miner at Gympie and purchased a 100 acre cattle property near Gympie (initially as a lease in 1878). He went tin mining at Herberton, Queensland in about 1882 and went to the Mount Wells Tin Mine in Northern Territory 1883- 1884. He died of remittent fever at Mountt Wells on 8 July 1886. It is likely that his wife Mary and two sons were with him at the mine.

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Physical description

Photograph (b&w print); 16.5 cm x 21.9 cm

Dates / Publication details

1885

Photographer

Foelsche, P

Collection

Part of Northern Territory Collection

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Digitisation information

Date

25/01/2011

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,563 x 2,680 pixels (9.5 MP)

Size

28.67 MB

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