Miner's camp, Hill End

1872
Glass photonegative

Judging by their accommodation, these are ‘new chums’ or recently arrived miners. Their accommodation around Hill End was described in the D55, 25 May 1872.

… the hillsides east and west are thickly studded with mud huts, calico tents, stumps of old gum trees, and enormous mounds of yellow clay … the dwellings, as a rule, would hardly come up to ordinary ideas of comfort.