Charles Webber

  • Artist (Photographer)
Amateur photographer, took two photographs at the Black Lead Reef, Moliagul, near Dunolly, site of the discovery on 5 February 1869 of the Welcome Stranger, the largest gold nugget ever found in Victoria.
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amateur photographer and jeweller, was a jeweller at Dunolly, Victoria in 1869 when, according to James Flett, he took two photographs at the Black Lead Reef, Moliagul, near Dunolly, site of the discovery on 5 February of the Welcome Stranger, the largest gold nugget ever found in Victoria. Both show one of the men who found the nugget (either John Deason or Richard Oates) and John Deason’s wife seated beside their discovery; one has a group of people in the background. The supposed nugget included in the photographs, however, was really a large stone, the Welcome Stranger having been immediately broken into three pieces.

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Date written:
1992
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2011

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References [<ExternalResource: Flett, J. (1956), 'Dunolly: The Story of an Old Gold-Diggings Town', Melbourne, Vic.>, <ExternalResource: Johnson, W.S. (1990), 'Nineteenth-Century Photography: An Annotated Bibliography 1839-1879', Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.>]