St. Bathans in 1879

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St. Bathans in 1879

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This extract originally appeared in New Zealand Photography Collected: 175 Years of Photography in Aotearoa (Te Papa Press, 2025).St Bathans may look like a rough frontier town in this 1879 photograph, but it had come a long way since it was established as a tent city of around 200–300 gold miners in 1863. ‘A lover of order, and a digger’ complained to the Otago Witness around this time that ‘drunk and disorderly seems to be the rule with us, night after night’, accompanied by ‘a large number...

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Date created

1879

Creator

Burton Brothers

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https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/23224

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Cities & towns / Liquor stores / Men / Commercial streets / collodion / sheet glass / silver / photographic plates / wet collodion negatives / black-and-white negatives / black-and-white photography / Wine industry / Tailors / Clutha-Central Otago

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