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Washing Tailings, 1870s

An illustration of Chinese migrants working on the Australian gold fields. The largest non-European group of gold miners in Australia were Chinese. It’s estimated that by 1855 there were 20,000 Chinese on the Victorian diggings.

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National Library of Australia, nla.obj-139535125

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