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Aboriginal cricket team, Ballarat, Victoria, about 1877

Around ten years before this photograph was taken, in 1868, a team of 13 Aboriginal men from the western district of Victoria became the first ever Australian cricket team to travel overseas for a series of matches.

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Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, At Work and Play - 05975 / FL1690076

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