Beaconsfield Gold Mines, Tasmania, Australia, 1886. Gold was discovered near Beaconsfield in 1869 and the town boomed after mining began in 1877. Wood engraving from 'Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, Vol II', by Andrew Garran, illustrated under the supervision of Frederic B Schell, (Picturesque Atlas Publishing Co, 1886).
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