‘Simmons (miners' office, mining agent, law agent and public accountant) and family outside his bark hut, Gulgong area’, 1870-1875, American & Australasian Photographic Company, State Library of NSW Collection

WOMEN ON THE GOLDFIELDS

During the early 1850s, there weren’t many women on the Victorian goldfields, due to the harsh conditions and the many social impediments they faced.

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