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Ballarat Post Office, 1941. Photo: The National Archives of Australia

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The lost photos of Ballarat

Two men and two women outside a weatherboard building and a shop named "The Race Store", 1860. Fom left: James Harris, his sister Eliza Harris, Mary-Anne Bennet (nee Harris) and her husband and the shop owner, James Bennett. The shop was on the corner of Barkly and Bradshaw Streets. SOURCE: THE BALLARAT HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

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