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Eastern Goldfields Historical Society > Records

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c. 1895

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2019 Calendar Images

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A black and white safety film negative depicting a mail coach transporting gold.

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cwa-org-11-EG-N-080-017a-P

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Themes

People
Photography
Social History

Material

Cellulose Acetate

Width

35 mm

Height or length

25 mm

Keywords

Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia

Place made

Western Australia
Australia

Year

Eastern Goldfields Historical Society

Eastern Goldfields Historical Society

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Six harnessed horses pull a coach seating five men along a dusty bush road. A single man armed with a gun rides behind them.

Once a fortnight, the daily mail coach from Malcom to Menzies was accompanied by a mounted armed escort for the transport of gold. Horses were an essential part of life in the early Eastern Goldfields.

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