- Bib ID:
- 735998
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Martin, Josiah, F.G.S
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 1894 or 1895
- 1 photograph : albumen ; 15.3 x 20.5 cm.
- Series:
- Album of the Boileau family's voyage from England to Australia in 1894-1895.
- Notes:
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- Title from caption.
- Inscription: "Kauri forest gum diggers. JM 546"--On image lower centre.
- In: Album of the Boileau family's voyage from England to Australia in 1894-1895.
- Image depicts six men and one boy digging up the buried deposits of gum that the vanished kauri forest has left behind. There is also a young girl and a dog. Implements used include every day spades as well as a steel spike known as a gum spear for locating the resin beneath the soil.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-138634577
- Subject:
- Kauri gum industry -- New Zealand -- Photographs
- Related Records:
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