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Panoramic view of Port Augusta harbour
Panoramic view of the harbour at Port Augusta, with a rail line running out along a jetty. There are mangrove seedlings on the left, and a number of sailing ships in the harbour. The photo brings together the two separate images located at B 6290/1 and B 6290/2.
Port Augusta Railway Station
View of the Port Augusta Railway Station.
Sailing ships at Port Augusta
Watercolour painting of Two sailing ships moored near a jetty ib a shallow inlet. Identified as 'Port Augusta Sept 28 1883'.
Port Augusta
Watercolour painting of sailing ships moored in an inlet with a number of buildings on the far side. Identified as 'Port Augusta Sep 29th 1883' a later pencil annotation reads 'Mr or Mt Brown'.
Great Northern Hotel, Port Augusta
Christmas card with a view of the Great Northern Hotel at Port Augusta, surrounded by vignettes of other scenes: main street, steamer, parade down a street, oxen team, buggy being pulled by four camels, boats in the harbour, ostriches, inlet.
Wharf, Port Augusta
The "Port Pirie", "Afghan" and "Restitution" ships loading wool for the United Kingdom.
South Australian Scenery : Port Augusta wharfs
Port Augusta wharfs, October 8, 1888. Vessels loading wool for the London market - S.S. Port Pirie (2040 tone), S.S. Afghan (1439 tons), S.S. Restitution (2171 tons), barque Oriana (987 tons), barque Rohilla (985 tons).
Racecourse Grandstand of Port
Racecourse Grandstand of Port Augusta. The previous grandstand of the Port Augusta Racecourse was replaced in 1915 by Mr W Kleeman of Jamestown. The railings were erected in 1917. The photograph shows a large two storey building with a hipped roof form. The upper level has a large grandstand with timber benches. The lower level contains clubrooms. in 1942 the Government acquired the racecourse to house 700 Chinese who had been evacuated from the Pacific Islands and were en route to the North to be used as labourers. The photograph shows a typical raceday in 1932 where the crowds fill the grandstand and surrounds. Their cars are parked in the foreground.
Institute, Pt. Augusta
Institute, Port Augusta which houses the library and reading room is located on Commercial Street.
Camel team near Port Augusta
View of a camel team resting beside an inlet; buildings can be seen in the distance. Unsigned message on the back reads '26/11/09. There are a lot of camels at Pt Augusta it is on the way to Oodnadatta in the Northern Territory where camels are the best for travelling'.
Interior view, Port Augusta
Residence of Mr J. W. H. Hullet. First establishment lighted in this state with electricity on October 1885. Also this is the first photograph taken by Electric Light.
Ships in harbour, Port Augusta
View of ships in an unidentifed harbour. Notes on the back read 'Port Augusta / Tassies Jetty / Hackets Jetty / Coleman's Barge / Pekina with barge wool alongside / Coonatto in the distance / Steamers Royal Shepherd & Lubra'. A researcher has confirmed that this is the Port Augusta harbour, looking north-east. Ther term 'Steamers' refers to the two South Australian sailing steamships, the 'Lubra' and the 'Royal Shepherd', whose funnels can be seen. This area has been reclaimed and the modern wharf lies much further out in deeper water.
Horses working on the east west railway
PORT AUGUSTA: Teams of horses and their handlers working on the east west railway near Port Augusta, South Australia.
Railroad construction workers and horses
PORT AUGUSTA: A group of men known as 'teamsters' with their horses used on the construction of the east west railway near Port Augusta, South Australia.
Installing a water tank
PORT AUGUSTA: Men installing a very large water tank on to a high platform alongside the new east west railway at Port Augusta, South Australia.
Camels used on railway construction
PORT AUGUSTA: A string of six camels used for work on the construction of the east west railway line photographed with three handlers at the '291 mile' mark near Port Augusta, South Australia.
Port Augusta peace demonstration
PORT AUGUSTA: A Peace demonstration at Port Augusta, November 12th 1918. The Ford registration number 0994, was registered in 1918 and belonged to E.H.K. Messenger, of Port Augusta. The Dodge Brothers vehicle, number 8746, was registered in 1917 and owned by C.L. Merrill of Port Augusta.
Views showing Trewenack & Bice's workshops etc
Five vignettes showing the premises of 'Trewenack & Bice, engineers, wheelwrights, blacksmiths, and agricultural implements manufacterers, Flinders Terrace, Port Augusta'. According to a researcher Bice and Trewenack provided vehicles for Cobb & Co. coaches. John George Bice (partner of Trewenack) later became Mayor of Port Augusta and also went into Parliament representing the Northern Districts. Bice was knighted in 1923 and died in November of that year.
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[Port Augusta September 1884]
Port Augusta harbour on 27 September 1884 with wooden schooner 'Postboy' loading at the end of the jetty.
A resident of Port Augusta
A well known identity, resident in Port Augusta.
Port Augusta
Port Augusta Railway Station. Between 1913 and 1917 the standard gauge Trans-Australian Railway was built from Port Augusta and Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. Thus Port Augusta became a break of gauge station until the standard gauge line was extended to Port Pirie Junction in 1937.
Railway station, Port Augusta
View of Port Augusta railway station, showing the building and platform.
West Jetty, Port Augusta
West Jetty, Port Augusta. Notes on the back of the photograph say "Port Augusta from the west side. Possibly taken c.1870-1871. Port Augusta West jetty in the foreground. Two storey building at left side of photograph is the store of PR Warren, draper and grocer. (This building is Transcontinental Printing Office of 1963). The next two storey building shown along Tassie Street bears the name of the firm Bignett and Young. This was their second shop in Tassie Street - the first opened in 1867, opposite. Built as a single storey store at the corner of Commercial Road during 1872 - thus helping to fix the date of the photograph. Bible Christian Chapel in Chapel Street, and behind it, first building of St Augustine's Anglican Church. Along shore frontages, Gooch and Haywards and also Tassie's jetties, and respective stores. Police Barracks, and stableyards. Former Dover Castle Inn, then boarding house. Old Customs House and residence beyond Alexander MacKays old store".
Tassie Street, Port Augusta
Tassie Street, Port Augusta.
Train accident on the Great Northern Railway line
After leaving Port Augusta for Quorn on 28 March 1914 the coal train comprising 27 carriages and two locomotives was derailed in the vicinity of the lagoon to the East of Port Augusta. "About 2 miles had been covered,... when the boiler of the second engine (No 103), without the slightest warning, burst on the left hand side."
Port Augusta
Laying foundation stone of the town hall.
Port Augusta
Laying Foundation of Town Hall.
Greenbush Gaol
PORT AUGUSTA: A Group of Aboriginal prisoners at Greenbush Gaol imprisoned for the killing of an Aboriginal man in the Musgrave Ranges.
New bridge across Spencer's Gulf
[General description] This is a panoramic view of the Great Western Bridge across the Gulf which united the communities of Port Augusta and Port Augusta West, previously separated by a twelve kilometre journey by land around the head of the gulf. [On back of photograph] 'Reproduced in the 'Chronicle', April 2, 1927. / Port Augusta / Bridge across Spencer's Gulf / 1927'.
Constructing the east west railway
PORT AUGUSTA: Men working on the construction of the east west railway near Port Augusta, South Australia.