View of Nashville Diggings, Queensland, from Photo. by Mr. C. Moore, of Maryborough.

Very rare engraving based on a photographer by Maryborough travelling photographer, Christopher Hume Moore of Gympie when was called Nashville. The town was named after James Nash who reported the discovery of ‘payable’ alluvial gold on 16 October 1867. The large building on the left is the Melbourn Hotel, at right Merry & Davies and further on the right is the Prince’s of Wales Theatre.

From the original edition of the Illustrated Sydney News.