Gold miner's hut opposite Petersen's (formerly Price's) battery, Hill End

1870-1875
Glass photonegative

This idyllic bush scene is the result of at least five attempts by the photographer to portray this miner’s wattle and daub hut in a painterly manner. The reality is his other negatives reveal the hut was directly across the mill pond from Peterson’s stamper battery on Oakey Creek. The noisy battery crushed gold-bearing quartz from the mines of nearby Nuggetty Gully on Lower Hawkins Hill, 24 hours a day, except Sunday.