• Title
  Pitsawing timber, Edward McGaurr's Sawpit, Medley Street, Gulgong
• Creator
  American & Australasian Photographic Company
• Call number
  ON 4/Box 1 /no. 18130
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1870-1875
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  62035
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 negative - glass - Quarter plate
  
• Copying Conditions
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  Out of copyright
• General note
  
  LR plan #91 - see item PXA 4999 Box 1 No. 18107 for exact position behind the Wesleyan Chapel. (Edward McGaurr's Sawpit was not behind the Wesleyan Church. It was on the opposite side of Medley Street in the next block. -- Baldwin & Davis, Research Gulgong - Aug 2006)
  Note girl left
  Note on verso of item PXA 4999 Box 1 No. 18130: "The Royal Hotel in Herbert Street can be picked out just to the right of the left hand font" ?
  Sawpit of Edward McGaurr on the slope of Church Hill, between Little Bayly and Belmore Streets looking northeast towards Herbert Street. The shingle roof of John Stomers house and the sign of the Royal Hotel can be seen just to the left of the right hand font. The saw pit can just be seen on the slope of the hill in Home & Away - 38752, between the Wesleyan Church and Rectory. See also Home & Away - 38809 taken from the opposite angle. -- Information supplied by Baldwin & Davis, Research Gulgong (Aug 2006)
  Digital order no:a2822085
  Copy print available: PXA 4999 Available on Open Access shelves in Mitchell Library Original Materials Reading Room
  This glass negative forms part of the Holtermann Collection : photographs of goldfield towns in N.S.W. and Victoria; Sydney and Melbourne streets and buildings, 1871-1876
• Alphanumeric designations
  
  Home and Away - 38772
• Subject
  Adult Males
  girls
  
• Topic
  historic sites
  pitsaws
  timbers
  workers
  
• Place
  Medley Street (Gulgong, N.S.W.)
  

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