• Title
  AA Co. [convict button]
• Creator
  Australian Agricultural Company
• Call number
  SAFE/R 6
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1830+
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Objects
• Reference code
  404849
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Objects - 2 cm. (diam) - brass
  
• Scope and Content
  Brass button said to be from the uniform worn by convict servants of Australian Agricultural Company, found in Pit Row, Newcastle, 1922.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  Dated from the time of transfer of the Newcastle Mine from the Government to the Australian Agricultural Company. Reference: 'The Australian Agricultural Company 1824-1875' / Jesse Gregson. Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1907.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 861485
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled from item
  Mounted on card inscribed: "This brass button was found in the ruins of the Australian Agricultural Company's cottages in Pit Row off Darby Street, Newcastle. The A.A.Co. worked their mines from 1830 by convicts assigned to them by the Governor of N.S.W. These convict miners were housed in Pit Row and fed and clothed by the A.A.Co. The buttons were made in England for the Convict Clothes. 1922." In later hand: "Pit Row is now known as Swan Street at bottom end of Anzac Avenue".
• Name
  Australian Agricultural Company
  
• Topic
  agricultural industry
  buttons
  convicts
  miners
  
• Exhibited in
  
  This Working Life
  Stranger than fiction
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3145862

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