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Telegraph Station
Telegraph station, Charlotte Waters showing the residence, telegraph repeater station, general store and post office. This is located close to the South Australian border with the Northern Territory. Surveyers McMinn and Knuckey located Charlotte Waters in 1871 during the construction of the Australian Overland Telegraph Line. It was named for Lady Charlotte Bacon. The station was nicknamed Bleak House as it stood on a treeless plain
Telegraph Station, Pine Creek
Telegraph Station, Pine Creek. By 1873 a telegraph repeater station and police camp had been established at Pine Creek. Prior to the this, during the construction of the Overland Telegraph line from Adelaide to Darwin, gold was discovered triggering another gold rush. The town rapidly grew and by the 1890s up to fifteen mines were operating in the area. The photograph shows the wooden building with its iron roof set in a garden of banana palms and other tropical plants
![Map of South Australia, showing the line of telegraph across the continent to the Northern Territory [cartographic material] /
signed Alfred Everard Lucy](https://slsa-collections.s3.amazonaws.com/25/da/d6c4-9229-5e20-840f-4399022eb114.jpg)
Map of South Australia, showing the line of telegraph across the continent to the Northern Territory [cartographic material] / signed Alfred Everard Lucy
Shows telegraph line from Port Augusta to Port Darwin - part completed, part in progress; Lake Torrens and Peake Station; James, Devenport, Stuart's and Strangways Ranges; Arthur's Hill, Mount Denison and Sturt's Plain; Roper and Adelaide Rivers; Point Patterson. Ink.
Daly Waters Telegraph Station
'Daly Waters Telegraph Station (looking South East)'. Written on reverse: S S217.
Telegraph Station, Port Darwin
'The telegraph station at Port Darwin during the construction of the line'. Written on reverse: Telecom, 22.
Telegraph Station
Alice Springs Overland Telegraph Station. Work on the Alice Springs station began in November 1871, the initial building being the telegraph office and men's quarters. In the following years, a harness room, buggy shed, barracks, police station, and Station Manager's house were added. Initial staffing was the station manager, one assistant telegraphist, and four linesmen, the latter maintaining almost three hundred miles of line. The station remained in service until 1932.
Telegraph Station
Telegraph Station and stockyard, Alice Springs. The stone station and outbuildings were established in 1872 to relay messages between Darwin and Adelaide. It was one of twelve stations along the Overland Telegraph Line. The first postmaster was Johannes Mueller.
Telegraph Station
Pencil sketch taken from McMinn's diary p.137 of the site of the central Telegraph Station. Site of the spring marked by an X. Heavitree Gap marked "o" in centre background. This sacred site is known as Ntaripe in the Arrernte language and is a water gap in the Northern Territory in the MacDonnell Ranges. It is the southern entrance to Alice Springs and carries the Todd River. The gap was given its European name by William Mills, the Overland Telegraph line surveyor who discovered the location of Alice Springs
Telegraph station Daly Waters
Telegraph station Daly Waters. The Overland Telegraph Line reached Daly Waters from the north in June 1872 and for two months a pony express carried messages the 421 kilometres to Tennant Creek via Renner Springs, Northern Territory.
Peake Telegraph Station
Peake Telegraph Station off the Oodnadatta Track in South Australia. The Overland Telegraph Line was opened between 1870-72 to open up communication between Port Augusta and Darwin. The owner of Peake Station was Ernest Courteney Kempe.
Overland Telegraph Line at Barrow Creek Station
Lithograph 'delineated' by Hardy Winnecke & Co. of the 'Telegraph Station Line - Barrow Creek Station'. Show the homestead and outbuildings in a valley.
Landing the telegraph cable, Port Darwin
Landing the telegraph cable at Port Darwin. A large group of men are holding the cable. The ship, 'Hibernia' is in the background [also at B 16].
Roper River
[General description] Officials at the Overland Telegraph camp posing next to a wagon. All of the men are wearing full beards and two of them are in tall riding boots. [On back of photograph] 'Overland Telegraph party / Taken by Capt. Sweet at the Roper River in 1872 / (see letter from Sir Chas. Todd to his wife, March 2, 1872.) From right to left : A.J. Mitchell / C. Todd / R.C. Patterson / J.A.G. Little (afterwards Pt. Darwin postmaster)'.
Charlotte Waters
Group of officials and staff of the Telegraph Station at Charlotte Waters. This is located close to the South Australian border with the Northern Territory. Surveyers McMinn and Knuckey located it in 1871 during the construction of the Australian Overland Telegraph Line. It was named for Lady Charlotte Bacon. In 1872 a telegraph repeater, post office, residence and general store were built. The photograph shows a group of telegraph officials, the cook and two Aboriginal children outside the brick building. The station was nicknamed Bleak House as it stood on a treeless plain. A researcher has suggested that the gentleman on the far right may be Ernest Giles, explorer, and the man next to him may be Alfred Giles, South Australian bushman and explorer. The same researcher suggests that the boy on the left could be Erlikilyika (Jim Kite) depending on when the photograph was actually taken and that a nearly identical photograph in the Peter Spillett Collection in the N.T. lists Station Master P.M. Byrnes as being on the right of the photo. Another researcher states that Jim Kite is not in this photograph, and that the men seated are Francis Gillen and Patrick Byrne.
Artillery Volunteers
Photograph of militia artillery volunteers. Figure third from the right is Alexander Henry Ringwood who was the meteorologist engaged on the overland telelgraph.
King William Street
Telegraph Office, Operators room. Adelaide Telegraph Office was co-located with the Adelaide General Post Office. It was opened in 1872 and received the first message along the Overland Telegraph Line on 22nd October, 1872. In the photograph there appear to be at least ten operators at their desks.
Adelaide-Perth Telegraph Line centenary commemorative ceremony
Photograph of participants in a ceremony to commemorate the centenary of the Adelaide-Perth Telegraph Line, held at North Road Church of England cemetery, Collinswood, 8 December 1977. From left: Ross R. Knuckey, Robert R. Knuckey, J.D. Wood (partially obscured), R.G. Thomson, C.K. Knuckey, J.W. Thomson, S.W. Marchant, C. Davis (partially obscured), D.L. Beames (back to camera), H.W. Johnson, Mrs Vivienne Johnson (nee Marchant), F.S.W. Gubbins, F.P. O'Grady, K.F. Work, M.J. Gooley, J.A. Johinke, K.G.Herbert, G.C. Gaskin, A.T. Booth. Plot 3664, Path 23 North, the men are standing facing Richard Randall KNUCKEY's grave (white tablet seen in bottom left hand corner of photo) Knuckey was appointed as Overseer of Section A of the Overland Telegraph Line from Port Augusta to Darwin in 1870. He was overseer of the construction of telegraph line from Port Augusta to Eucla in WA. [Source: North Road Cemetery historian]
Telegraph Line Survey Party camp, near Alice Springs
The photo was taken during the visit of Lord Kintore's Telegraph Line Survey Party. Mounted Constables Harry Chance and Charles Brookes on the left, and two Aboriginal Troopers at right. The buggy is Lord Kintore's. The expedition travelled along the Overland Telegraph Line in 1891.
![Plan of the Northern Territory annexed to South Australia [cartographic material] /
compiled in the Office of the Surveyor General, South Australia](https://slsa-collections.s3.amazonaws.com/fb/65/f851-8219-5736-9a68-4d1a107e56e6.jpg)
Plan of the Northern Territory annexed to South Australia [cartographic material] / compiled in the Office of the Surveyor General, South Australia
Shows exploration tracks - Stuart, Sturt, A.C. McKinlay and Leichhardt, telegraph lines, detailed description of natural features. Ink annotations of telegraph line. Printed at the Government Printing Office.
![Plan of the Northern Territory annexed to South Australia [cartographic material]/
compiled in the Office of the Surveyor General, South Australia](https://slsa-collections.s3.amazonaws.com/c4/5a/e315-d9f3-5f5c-b791-27a2f9d46306.jpg)
Plan of the Northern Territory annexed to South Australia [cartographic material]/ compiled in the Office of the Surveyor General, South Australia
Shows exploration tracks - Stuart, Sturt, A.C. McKinlay and Leichhardt, telegraph lines, detailed description of natural features. Ink annotations of telegraph line. Printed at the Government Printing Office.
Advertisement for mosquito tents and clothing
Photograph of a newspaper advertisement for mosquito tents and clothing manufactured by G.C. Shierlaw. Originally printed in 'The Express and Telegraph', Monday 15 August 1870, Page 4, 'Advertising'. Written on reverse: P.M.G. Dept. Engineering Divn. South Australia Drafting Section Photograph. Neg No. 9027/4, taken 27-4-72.
![Map of the country west of the telegraph line in the interior of Australia explored by Mr E. Giles [cartographic material] /
& compiled in the Office of the Sur. General at Adelaide](https://slsa-collections.s3.amazonaws.com/c7/f2/2b38-9a67-5e92-9114-ff19efbde3c0.jpg)
Map of the country west of the telegraph line in the interior of Australia explored by Mr E. Giles [cartographic material] / & compiled in the Office of the Sur. General at Adelaide
Map of Central Australia from the Gibson Desert (W.A.) to Uluru (N.T.), Charlotte Waters (N.T.) and the Overland Telegraph in the east, and from the Everard Ranges (SA) in the south to the MacDonnell Ranges (NT) in the north, showing Giles' tracks and notes on the terrain. Includes place names and some notes on water and natural features. "This map shows Mt. Ernest Giles' explorations during 1872-3 and 4 the tract of country however lying in between Ayer's Rock and Mt Stevenson; also that along the Mann and Tomkinson Ranges, and from thence west to Long. 126.39E, Lat. 26.20S was previously explored by Mr W.C. Gosse".
The 'Gulnare' in Roper River, Northern Territory
The wooden schooner 'Gulnare', 64 tons, in Roper River, Northern Territory [wooden 2 mast schooner, 151 tons, ON41724, 103.6 x 24.2 x 10.7. Built 1856. Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, formerly owned in London and arrived in Port Adelaide Dec. 1863, having been purchased by Captain Alex McCoy and Mr E Jenkins, registered Port Adelaide as 1/1864. Sold to the South Australian Government 1869 for use in connection with the Overland Telegraph Line, and while conveying supplies to the Roper River working party, was stranded on a reef near the Vernon Islands (about 30 miles from Darwin) and after survey was condemned in October 1871. See 'Ships of the Overland Telegraph, Australasian Shipping Record' Vol.3(5) page 129 Sept. 1972. Port Adelaide Customs Register 1/1864].
Photographs of T.F. Smith
Photographs of Thomas Frederick Smith, member of the Overland Telegraph Construction Party, both taken by Townsend Duryea.
Views of Eucla
Album of views of Eucla, telegraph stations, overland mail, camels, donkeys, Weebubbie, Wilson's Bluff, Aboriginal Australians, S.A. telegraph staff, 'Excelsior', Mundrabella, Kangaroo Plains, Madura Homestead, Streaky Bay, Gawler Ranges, Yardea, Coolgardie, Albany, Karoona Sheep Station, Murrin Murrin, Gumeracha.
Southport
Southport.
Cable House, Port Darwin
'Port Darwin. The small white building on the beach is the cable house which was the Australian end of the International cable. The large building above is the Government Residency'. Written on reverse: Telecom, 26. Handwritten on reverse: 'Cable Hut. Cable handing place west side of Fort Hill, Port Darwin, showing the Residencey. The opening between Fort Hill on the right and the tableland on the left on which the Residency is built is the place where Mr Goyder, Surveyor General, and party landed and pitched their camp in February 1869 (The small hut on the beach in the centre is the cable house)'.
Alfred Giles
Alfred Giles, explorer and pastoralist. He was appointed second in command of John Ross's 1870 advance expedition to fix a course for the Overland Telegraph Line. In 1879-80, he overlanded several thousand head of sheep and cattle from Adelaide, to establish the Springvale cattle station near Katherine.
Temple Bar Gap
Temple Bar Gap, now named Honeymoon Gap, about 15 km west of Alice Springs, where the Overland Telegraph Line first came through the ranges. Telegraph poles can be seen near the gap. The artist is probably Edwin S. Berry.
John Henry Smyth Blood
John Henry Smyth Blood of Blood's Creek second son of Dr M. Blood. He was born in County cCare and grew up in Kapunda. He worked on the construction team establishing the Overland Telegraph where he later became the Post Master and Telegraph Officer at the Peake Station. He held the position of Grand Master of the Freemason Lodge. John married Mary Enock and they had five children. He died at Auburn aged 49