These two mid-19th-century maps are examples of the kinds of maps produced to help people find their way to Victorian goldfields. At that time, finding the way to the ‘diggins’ was a problem for most would-be diggers, whether Victorians or from other colonies and countries. These kinds of maps were often seen as a 'promise' of riches to come.
Enterprising map-makers produced useful charts such as the Map of the roads to all gold mines in Victoria. This showed ‘the Cross Roads from one Mine to another, with indications of various Stations’. It was ‘Divided into Squares of ten Miles, to easily calculate the distance of any New Mines when discovered’.
One of the maps on show in Travelling Treasures was lithographed by JB Philip in 1853; a redrafted copy that was pirated from Frederick Proeschel’s Pocket map of the roads to all the mines in Victoria, issued earlier in 1853. | 
