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1860 Wagga Wagga Chinese Opium Pipe

Discover a typical opium pipe used by nineteenth century Chinese miners that is a part of a series of regional collections integral to the story of the Chinese on the goldfields and the establishment of regional Chinese communities. Continue reading

Lambing Flat Roll Up Banner c.1860s
1860 Lambing Flat Roll Up Banner

The banner’s historic value lies in its relationship to the themes of the gold rush experience, racial antagonism, the fear of the exotic and unknown, and ideologies that culminated in the first act of the newly Federated Commonwealth of Australia, the 1901 Immigration Restriction Act. Continue reading