Description of Content
View of a worker standing in the screen of a tin mining dredge manufactured by Charles Ruwolt Pty Ltd at Richmond, Victoria for the South Taiping Tin Dredging Company in Malaya. This company went into voluntary liquidation in 1935. The dredge has earlier been sold to the Batu Selangor Tin Dredging Co. Whilst the photograph records of Dredgers and Dredger Details records the date of all photographs of dredgers as 8-8-28 the thesis by Geoff David Hayes titled Charles Ruwolt: A History to 1927, dates the dredge as built in 1921.
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Collection Names
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Collecting Areas
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Acquisition Information
Donation from Vickers Ruwolt Pty Ltd, circa 1986
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Place & Date Depicted
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Format
Glass Negative, Whole Plate, Black & White
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Inscriptions
Circular stamp at bottom right of negative: 'CHAS RUWOLT PTY. LTD. MELBOURNE PHOTO 365' Entered in hand-written catalogue as; '365 | Back view of Mid-Horse showing Thrust Rollers for Screen | South Taiping Dredging Co.' Entered in hand-written subject index under 'DREDGERS AND DREDGER DETAILS as: 'Photo No. 365 | 8.8.28 | Backview of Mid-Horse showing ThrustRollers for Screenss | Sth. Taiping Dredge | 2 Negatives
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Medium
Glass Negative
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Technique
Photograph
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Classification
Manufacturing & industry, Engineering products, Mining equipment
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Keywords
Bucket Dredges, Mining Machinery, Structural Steelwork, Tin Mining
