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Strangways Springs
[General description] The ruins of a stone walled sheep pen with a wooden gate stand in the desert at Strangways Springs. This site was named by explorer P.E. Warburton in 1858. It was used as a pastoral run by Hogarth and Warren until chosen as a site for a telegraph repeater station in 1870. [On back of photograph] 'Remains of settlement at Strangways Springs / 1926' The words 'Reproduced in the Chronicle, April 24, 1926' have been crossed out with pencil.
Strangways Springs
[General description] The ruins of several single storey stone buildings stand in the desert at Strangways Springs. This site was named by explorer P.E. Warburton in 1858. It was chosen as a site for a telegraph repeater station in 1870. [On back of photograph] 'Remains of settlement at Strangways Springs / 1926' The words 'Reproduced in the Chronicle, April 24, 1926' have been crossed out with pencil.
Strangway Springs
[General description] This stone walled yard was used for penning sheep during shearing. The ruined building on the right was probably the shearing shed. These buildings date from pre 1872 when Hogarth and Warren used the property as a pastoral run. From 1872 the Manager's house was taken over for use as the Telegraph Station. [On back of photograph] 'Reproduced in the Chronicle, April 24, 1926 / Strangway Springs / Remains of the settlement / April 1926'.
Post and Telegraph Office
Post and Telegraph Office at Tanunda.
Post and Telegraph offices
Post and Telegraph offices, Tanunda.
Telegraph and Post Office
Telegraph and Post Office, Tanunda.
Post and Telegraph office
Post and Telegraph office, Unley.
Men of South Australian telegraph
A composite of seven portraits of men who superintended the construction of the telegraph line from Port Lincoln via Eucla to Albany published in the Observer newspaper 4 December 1909, page 28. They are (2) John Knuckey, (3) McMinn, (4) Alfred Woods, (5) Frank Marchant (6) and (7) Carey brothers of Western Australia. (One of Richard Knuckey has been removed. See B 7232).
Memorial
Memorial erected to the men who were murdered by Aboriginals whilst working on the Overland Telegraph to Port Darwin.
Grenfell Street, Adelaide
Grenfell Street, Adelaide, viewed from King William Street. A group of people is standing at the South Australian Insurance Building corner. The 'Register' newspaper building is seen in the centre with its tower. In the foreground is a telegraph pole showing the insulators and the web of wires over the street. (Sweet Adelaide 104).
King William Street, Adelaide
[General description] City buildings and street are viewed through a web of telegraph and electricity wires, creating an interesting effect. Several double-decker horse trams can be seen and traffic is horse-drawn with one exception: an early model motor car appears in the foreground. Pedestrians stroll along the footpath. [On back of photograph] 'King William St. / looking north from Pirie St. / May 30, 1905. / Extreme left is about 37 yards north of Waymouth St.'
King William Street, Adelaide
Telegraph Operators Room, in King William Street, Adelaide.
Interior view of the Telegraph Office
Main operating room, Telegraph Office, King William Street. GPO Adelaide in 1935. The all male staff can be seen busily at their switchboards and typewriters.
Grote Street, near Morphett Street
Grote Street, north side, looking east from Brown Street, 29 January 1902, showing the laying of the eastern extension telegraph cable. Extreme left is about 28 yards east of Morphett Street. Healey's Hampshire Hotel is on the west corner of Bowen Street. Dozens of men can be seen holding the cable ready to place it in the prepared trench. Several onlookers, mainly children are watching the progress.
Grote Street
Grote Street, north side, looking east from Brown Street, 24 January 1902, showing the laying of the eastern extension telegraph cable. Extreme left is about 28 yards east of Morphett Street. See also PRG 631/2/42.
North Terrace, Adelaide
[On back of photograph] 'First successful aeroplane flight over Adelaide (A.W. Jones, pilot) / Jan. 2, 1914.' [General description] The small bi-plane flies over a perfect snapshot of North Terrace, circa 1914. The Institute building appears on the extreme left, and next door to it is the Mortlock Library. The Museum building beyond has just been completed. Further down is the dome of the Exhibition Building. Telegraph poles march down the centre of North Terrace and accompanying them are the ornate poles supporting the wires for the latest innovation, the electric tram.
Alice Springs
Telegraph Station at Alice Springs.
Alice Springs
Telegraph Station at Alice Springs.
Workers camp at Eucla
EUCLA: A camp used by South Australian telegraph line workers.
Staff outside a post and Telegraph Office
GENERAL: A group of staff, including an Aboriginal man, outside a Post and Telegraph Office, location unknown.
Transport leaving Alice Springs
ALICE SPRINGS: F. Simmons, an electrical engineer on the staff of the telegraph station at Alice Springs, leaving on a journey travelling by a horse drawn vehicle; friends stand nearby to see him off from the station.
Camels bringing mail to Alice Springs
ALICE SPRINGS: Three camels resting outside the telegraph station after bringing in the mail to Alice Springs, Northern Territory.
Horsemen at Alice Springs
ALICE SPRINGS: Three men, staff of the telegraph station at Alice Springs, photographed horse riding; names not known.
A horseman at Alice Springs
ALICE SPRINGS: A telegraphist employed at the telegraph station, Alice Springs, who is identified as M. C. Fuss photographed riding a horse called 'Santos'.
Humour at a Parliamentary party's camp
ALICE SPRINGS: Telegraph operators employed at Alice Springs standing by their truck and a sign reading 'Col. Light Gardens' which they have erected on a tree at a visiting Parliamentary party's camp; 'Colonel Light Gardens' is the name of what was then a very new suburb in Adelaide, South Australia.
Humour at a Parliamentary party's camp
ALICE SPRINGS: Four men from the staff of the telegraph station at Alice Springs standing by a makeshift 'gate' with no fence that they have erected at a visiting Parliamentary party's camp near Alice Springs, Northern Territory; names not known.
Telegraph Station Yardea
Telegraph Station Yardea.
Yardea Telegraph Station and sheep
The fourth of 20 photographs in an album. A view of Yardea looking South showing some sheep and the Telegraph Station in the background.
Yardea Telegraph Station and sheep
The eleventh of 20 photographs in an album. Yardea sheep and Yardea Telegraph Station.
Views of Eucla : S.A. line party
The tenth of 101 photographs in an album. S.A. telegraph line party in their horsedrawn supply wagons moving camp.