Diary of William Crawford Walker, 1852-1863
written by William Crawford Walker, fl. 1852, in The Australian Manuscripts Collections, of State Library of Victoria. Manuscript Collections (Melbourne, Victoria) (1852) , 251 page(s)
Details
- Abstract / Summary
- Includes details of William Crawford Walker's tasks as manager of a gold mining water race between Harker's Creek and Stony Creek at Granite Flat; reference to Chinese miners and opium smoking; information on religious and social life; garden planting notes and biographical notes on the Walker family. Also with the diary is information on William Crawford Walker by W. J. Taylor. The area known as Granite Flat is situated several miles above the township of Mitta Mitta.
- Field of Interest
- World History
- Author
- William Crawford Walker, fl. 1852
- Copyright Message
- Copyright © 2013. Used by permission of the State Library of Victoria
- Content Type
- Diary/Memoir/Autobiography
- Duration
- 0 sec
- Warning: Contains explicit content
- No
- Format
- Text
- Page Count
- 251
- Page Range
- 1-251
- Subject
- World History, History, Family and Culture, Trade and Commerce, Chinese, Frontier and pioneer life, Gold mines and mining, Mining communities, Colonial life, Family and Culture, Trade and Commerce, Familia y Cultura, Família e Cultura, Comercio, Comércio, Opium, Victoria (Australia), Chinese, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- Familia y Cultura, Família e Cultura, Comercio, Comércio, Opium