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![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".
Diary of Dr Frederick Emil Renner, 4 April to 6 June 1871.
Diary kept by Dr Frederick Renner while attached to the Overland Telegraph Line construction works as a medical officer. Transcript by Mrs J. Petrick of Alice Springs.
Rough diary of Dr Frederick Emil Renner, 25 February to 2 August 1872.
Rough diary kept by Dr Frederick Renner while attached to the Overland Telegraph construction works as a medical officer. Transcript by Mrs J. Petrick of Alice Springs.
Diary of Dr Frederick Emil Renner, 28 February to 3 June 1872
Diary kept by Dr Frederick Renner while attached to the Overland Telegraph Line construction works as a medical officer. Transcript by Mrs J. Petrick of Alice Springs.
Diary of Dr Frederick Emil Renner, 3 August to 8 September 1872.
Diary kept by Dr Frederick Renner while attached to the Overland Telegraph Line construction works as a medical officer. Transcript by Mrs J. Petrick of Alice Springs.
Diary of Thomas Smith
Diary kept by Thomas Smith during construction work on the Overland Telegraph Line to Port Darwin, 28 November 1870 to 14 November 1872.
Elaborated diary of Thomas Smith
Copy made later of diary kept by Thomas Smith during construction work on the Overland Telegraph Line to Port Darwin, 13 August 1870 to 18 December 1871. This version contains some elaboration of the original diary entries (51 foolscap pages).
Diary of Thomas Smith, 1873-1874
Diary used by Thomas Smith during his work re-poling and maintaining the Overland Telegraph route to Port Darwin, 9 April 1873 to 27 December 1874
Old Post & Telegraph Office, Cowell
Old Post & Telegraph Office, Cowell.
Mr. Baldock of Adelaide
Head and shoulders view of Mr. Baldock, a pioneer member of the South Australian Telegraph Department in Adelaide. According to a researcher, this may be Albert Baldock who arrived with his parents, Robert and Susannah, as a thirteen year old in 1854 on the ship 'Evening Star'. Albert took up the profession of telegraph officer and worked at Goolwa around 1867-1869. According to his great-granddaughter, Albert was born on 25 January 1842 on Jersey, Channel Islands, to Col. Robert Walters Baldock and Susannah (Harden). The family arrived in South Australia on the Evening Star on 24 Nov 1854 and took up residence near Port Elliot. Albert commenced service with the South Australian Telegraph Department on 1 September 1855, possibly at Port Elliot. He was appointed to Goolwa as telegraph clerk on 1 June 1864, at the age of 22, and was married to Margaret Naomi Lush on 6 November 1865. In 1873 Albert was Telegraph Station Master at Blinman (Flinders Ranges) on the Overland Line to Darwin. He was a field officer, part of the team extending the telegraph line from Port Augusta to Eucla via Streaky Bay in 1875-6. On 1 December 1878 Albert was appointed by the Governor as Postmaster at Cape Borda on Kangaroo Island. Albert and Margaret's sixth and seventh children were born there. Albert's next appointment was at Meningie, from 1 May 1881 until his death on 2 April 1883 in Strathalbyn. The year after Albert's death, his daughter Catherine Susannah, known as Kate, was appointed to the Port Elliot Post Office and was transferred to Meadows in 1885 where she was postmistress until her marriage in 1887. Albert's son Albert Carey Baldock, known as Carey, was also employed as a telegraph officer - in Eucla, then Cossack and Broome in WA. Son Walter (Joseph Walters Baldock) was probably also employed in the Telegraph Department before his early death at the age of 22.
Photograph albums belonging to Hermann and Hilda Heinrich
Records comprise photographs taken from three photograph albums belonging to Hermann and Hilda Heinrich. Captions found on the photographs have been noted in quotation marks. Some captions have been provided by Ilona Oppenheim. Photographs show activities in and around Hermannsburg Mission, people of the Mission, Alice Springs, Darwin, Henbury Station, Gosse Ranges, Palm Valley and other places in Central Australia.
Fowlers Bay and jetty
View over a portion of the township at Fowlers Bay, with the jetty extending out into the water. The building in the centre is the Globe Hotel, with the Telegraph Station on the extreme left.
James Lawrence Stapleton
An occupational ambrotype portrait of James Lawrence Oliver Stapleton sitting with his telegraph device. Tinting is visible in the pink of the cheeks, and golden buttons, pocket watch chain, and telegraph device. In an embossed leather case with a gilt metal frame. James Stapleton was the telegraph Station Master and Mount Gambier, and Station Master at Barrow Creek Telegraph Station on 22 February 1874 when it was attacked by local Aborigines. Stapleton died of his wounds the following day.
Photographs of Captain Bagot's Northern Territory Tour from Adelaide to Darwin
A collection of photographs given to Sydney Ray Wallage, who was the motor specialist and member of 'Bagot's Northern Territory Tour, Adelaide-Darwin'; the photos were a gift to Wallage from Capt. Bagot 'in appreciation of his services and a souvenir of the first passenger motor tour of Northern Territory...'
Post Office, Burra
Post Office Burra combined with the Telegraph Office in 1859. The Telegraph Office opened in 1860 and the Post Office combined with the Telegraph Office in 1861.The photograph shows an attractive single storey symmetrical stone building featuring a two storey middle section. Three arched windows stand on either side of the central doorway. The whole building stands raised above the footpath.
Memorial, Eucla
Unveiling the Telegraph Memorial Plaques attached to the telegraph column in tribute to the people who manned and maintained the East-West telegraph line in this isolated place during the years of 1877-1927.
Southport
Southport.
John Knuckey
Portrait of John Knuckey, one in a composite of 'Men of South Australia'. John Randall Knuckey was born at Stithians, Cornwall, 29 March 1845 to Richard Knuckey and Persis Reed. He married Louisa Calnan and they had 8 children. At the time of his death at Kensington Park, South Australia on 19 July 1890 he was Inspector of Telegraph and Telephone Lines. John also worked on the Overland and Fowler's Bay telegraph lines.
Album of photographs of Nullarbor caves exploration
Photographs taken by H.G. Watson of Ceduna of trips of exploration to the caves of the Nullarbor Plain in 1935. Also includes scenes of the Duke of Gloucester's train visit to Ooldea in 1934, his meeting with Daisy Bates and a corroboree performance arranged for him by local Aboriginal people. (NOTE: captions used for 143-149 are those from the album and do not reflect current appropriate use of language.) At the back of the album is a manuscript account of 'Trip to Eucla', a 'Chronicle' newspaper report of the 1935 cave exploration, and a newspaper cutting photograph from The Mail, Saturday 3 April 1937 (page 2) showing a cave with members of an exploration party headed by Mr H. Gwynn Watson. For more photographs and papers of Howard Watson and his family see PRG 1527.
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)'.
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.
Post Office, Blood Creek
Blood's Creek Post and Telegraph office is probably named by Christopher Giles after a member of his party, Mr JHS Blood who was the son of Kapunda Doctor MHS Blood. Mr Blood was station master of Peake Telegraph Station which stands between William Creek and Oodnadatta. Mr Blood died in 1890 at Brighton aged 49.
Cape Borda
Cape Borda Telegraph Station stands near Cape Borda Lighthouse on Kangaroo Island which was built in 1858 and is the only square stone lighthouse in South Australia. It was built to guide sailing ships coming out of the Roaring Forties trade winds and directing them through Investigator Straits towards Adelaide. A man, his two children and a horse and carriage can be seen outside the telegraph station.
Gawler
Old Post Office and Telegraph Office the base for the original Adelaide to Darwin telegraph line.
Mount Gambier Post Office
[General description] Bay Road, Mount Gambier township, showing the Post and Telegraph Office in the centre. There is a web of telegraph wires going from the pole into the building.
Post Office, Port Adelaide
Post and Telegraph Offices, Port Adelaide. The scaffolding on the Customs House is for the final work performed on the building. The symmetrical Italianate Telegraph Office was completed in 1868 and housed the Port Adelaide telephone exchange which opened in 1883. This photograph shows the bluestone building with chimneys and cement rendered dressings.
Wreck of the 'Young Australian'
The 'Young Australian' wrecked ca. 1872 on the Roper River. The National Library of Australia attributes the photograph as by Paul Foelsche, taken in April 1889.The paddle steamer was purchased by Charles Todd to be used in the Roper River. The materials for the Telegraph Depot were transported 100 kilometres from the sea up the Roper River. After completion of the telegraph the "Young Australian" was grounded in a towing mishap and could not be re-floated. The wreck remained in the Roper River.
Strangways Spring Station
This property was both a pastoral run and a Telegraph Repeater Station. The telegraph lines can be seen in front of the building.
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
Richard Randall Knuckey
Richard Randall 'Dick' Knuckey born at Stithians, Cornwall, on 26th September 1842 and died at College Park, South Australia in 1914. His parents were Richard Knuckey and Persis Reed. He was a surveyor on the Oveland Telegraph Line, 1871-72, later becoming Chief Officer at the Electric Telegraph Department in Adelaide.