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Coffee tent 6 m from Bush Inn, Diggers' breakfast /

Shows a group of diggers and travellers gathered round a tent. A pot cooks on a campfire, and a woman is dispensing drinks from inside the tent. The body of a dray which has had its wheels removed lies beside the tent. The carcass of a sheep hangs from a tree.

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Date(s): 1852

Creator: Gill, S. T., 1818-1880, artist.

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