Washing for gold [Thok Dalung]. The actual washer is the middle man of these three. Photographer: Calvert, Hubert
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View of miners at work, digging near the river. With a further pencilled note refering to the pile of earth on the right: 'This heap is the winter collection — when no washing is possible.'
Washing for gold [Thok Dalung]. Photographer: Calvert, Hubert
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View of miner at work between two channels of water (marked in pencil, 'branch channel' and 'main channel'). With an explanatory pencilled note: 'A small channel with a good drop is lined with cloth and then with stones, the earth is slowly raked into this.'
Snapshots of a journey from England to Ceylon by bicycle and ship. Photographer: Blakeney, Thomas Sydney
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Photograph album containing 138 small snapshots, with handwritten caption labels pasted beneath each image. The album records Blakeney’s journey by bicycle and ship from England to Ceylon and includes views of Holland, Germany (Cologne, Coblenz, Frankfurt, Nürnberg, Passau), Austria (Melk, Vienn...