Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- Celebrating Gold Mining in Victoria
- In
- Historic Environment
- Imprint
- vol. 8, no. 3-4, 1991, pp. 31-35
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0726-6715
- Url
- https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.869722382587947
- Subject
- History of Applied Sciences Engineering and Technology
- Description
From a paper presented at "The past at work: Industrial history conference", April 21 - 22 1990, Melbourne.
- Abstract
This paper takes the industry of mining - gold mining in Victoria to be precise - and examines ways in which that industry has celebrated and been celebrated in the period since 1851. The forms of celebration under review are all direct representations of the industry, often in the form of models, illustrations, monuments or exhibitions. It is not my intention to survey the gold rush legacy of public works, such as trunk railway lines, court houses or the mansions of mining magnates. These I consider as secondary or indirect celebrations more closely allied to the long-term wealth generated by the industry than the primacy and commemorative nature of the objects which I have considered within my scope.
- Source
- Carlson 1993