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Title devised by cataloguer.
This image has been received in two donations. An original negative found at 5816B/263 (019060PD)
Summary
A crowd watches as a dray, loaded with gold ingots packed in wooden boxes, is prepared to transport its precious cargo to the railway station, from there it was loaded into a safe inside a special railway van and shipped to the Perth Mint. A similar photograph is published in the Kalgoorlie Western Argus 16 June 1903, p.51.
