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Port Broughton
Tramcar in front of the Post Office, Port Broughton. The Post Office was operating in Port Broughton as early as August 1873 when FR Fuller was Postmaster. In 1874 Thomas Watts took the position remaining until 1877. The arrival of the telegraph necessitated the construction of the larger Post Office. The building was completed in 1890.The building consists of random limestone with red brick quoins and string course. The 3'6" gauge track commenced on the jetty in the Mundoora Arm of Spencers Gulf then proceeded along the main street of Port Broughton settlement. The horse drawn tramway extended for over ten miles. The two early single deck passenger cars were a cross between horse coach and railway architecture. Sixteen people could be seated on four benches
West Coast Mail Van
[General description] A team of four hard-worked horses harnessed to the mail van stand in front of the Post and Telegraph Office at Port Lincoln. [On back of photograph] 'West Coast horsedrawn Mail Van, Pt Lincoln / 1907' : No copying without permission from the State Library.
Port Lincoln Jetty
Port Lincoln Jetty. Telegraph Office on the left of the Institute (in the centre of the photograph) can be seen. The church on the left could possibly be Port Lincoln Baptist Church
Port Lincoln's Institute
Port Lincoln's Institute building with a Red Cross float in front of it, during the Australia Day parade of 1916 [duplicate copy at PRG 458/1/1/138]. The Institute Building was estblished in 1869 and stood next to the Post and Telegraph Office on Tasman Terrace
Port Lincoln
Port Lincoln: looking shorewards from the jetty, the building in the left foreground is the Telegraph Office which screens St. Thomas Church of England, the Institute is seen on the right [duplicate copy at PRG 458/1/1/108].
Port MacDonnell
Old Customs and Marine Board Offices, Port MacDonnell. Built in 1862, the building has also been used as a courthouse, police station, post and telegraph office. It has been extensively restored and is currently [2007] a private home. Reproduced in the Observer, February 9th, 1924.
Port MacDonnell
Customs House, Port MacDonnell. Prior to Federation in 1901 the South Australian colonial Customs Department maintained a number of offices at points of entry to the colony for the collection of customs duties. Construction began on The Customs House in 1863 and took three years to complete. It was designed by Francis Reynolds. The building is described as having a symmetrical elevation facing Charles Street and was built as a Customs House, Court House and Telegraph Office. It also housed police and their families, the cells and stables
Post Office at Port Pirie
[General description] Telegraph and Post Office in Ellen Street at Port Pirie. The wooden building has a raised front verandah. Next to the Post Office is Brown and Wood Importers of Grocery, drapery, ironmongery and agricultural implements. This is a branch of a retail department store from Waymouth Street in Adelaide. The footpath and road look muddy. [On back of photograph] no information given.
Port Pirie
Port Pirie looking across the creek at a row of shops and business' that include: drapers and outfitters, Brown and Wood, the Telegraph Office and Post Office. A short jetty extends into the mud of the creek.
The 'Star of Greece'
Artwork depicts the 'Star of Greece', breaking up close to the shore at Port Willunga. The artist has included figures on the beach in the foreground, and others being washed in to shore along with fragments of the ship. Escarpment and jetty are illustrated in the distance to the left.
Survivors of the 'Gothenburg' shipwreck
Pencil on paper sketch of the wreck of the 'Gothenburg', comprising 9 portraits, probably copied from photographs, superimposed onto a background illustration of the sinking ship. There is a small inscription 'The Gothenburg' in fine white lettering on the vessel. The portraits represent 9 survivors including (numbered 1-9) Harris, Fitzgerald, Cleland, Thomas, Cockram, Kruger, Campbell, Hogan and Brazil. The portrait of Campbell is central to the work and considerably larger than the other portraits. It is assumed the work was commissioned by the Campbell family. The paper on which artwork is made is watermarked '1904'.
Riverton
View at Riverton which was first settled in 1856 as a settlement along the bullock track frfom the mining town of Burra to Adelaide. The first storekeeper was John Jubb Horner and in his emporium was located the post office, telegraph office, registry for births, deaths and marriages. A cobbler also ran a business in the town from the 1850s. The hotel was established in 1855. This photograph shows the leafy main street between approximately 1904-10
Roper River
The Omeo, the Young Australian and the Bengal at Roper River, in connection with the Overland Telegraph line.
Roper River Camp
[General description] Men are posing amongst a large group of tents in a bush clearing beside the Roper River. [On back of photograph] 'Roper River Camp / 1871-72'.
The SS 'Tararua' on Roper River
[Genera description] The SS 'Tararua' moored on the Roper River, 96 miles from the mouth. The ship is reflected in the water. Three men are seated in a rowing boat in the foreground and another man is standing on the yard-arm of the vessel. Copy in Sweet Collection folder 5 has Sweet signature (Sweet Adelaide 887). This ship, seen in such a peaceful setting here was later wrecked at Waipapa Point, New Zealand on 29-30th April, 1881 with 133 lives lost, New Zealand's worst maritime disaster. [On back of photograph] ''Tararua' at Roper River / 1972. (Chartered for conveyance of horses and stores for the Overland Telegraph) / Presented by Mrs. C. Trinne'.
Roper River Jetty
Overland Telegraph party at the Roper River Jetty. Copy in Sweet Collection folder 5 has Sweet signature (Sweet Adelaide 883).
Floods at Salisbury
Floods at Salisbury. Telegraph poles line a flooded road in Salisbury South Australia
Finnis Vale Store
Finnis Vale Store, Post and Telegraph Office.
Stirling
[General description] The main street in Stirling West showing houses and further down the road, the Stirling Hotel. Horse transport is still popular. Note the large telegraph poles with props. [On back of photograph] 'Copied from a negative to replace a missing item'.
Strangway Springs
[General description] This low stone building with two small windows is partially ruined, but still has much of its thatched roof intact. See B 3399 for another view and brief history. [On back of photograph] 'Reproduced in the Chronicle, April 24, 1926 / Strangway Springs / The remains of the settlement / April 1926'.
Strangways Springs
Ruins that were once the Head Station of Hogarth & Warren, a Telegraph & Police Station.
Strangways Springs
Ruins that were once the Head Station of Hogarth and Warren, a Telegraph and a Police Station.
Strathalbyn Post Office
Post Office at Strathalbyn in 1866-67. Mail from Adelaide was carried by a rider on horseback so when the original post office operated from the Foster and Horne's old store in Swale Street the residents were pleased. The post office serviced the community from the ground floor of Edward Sunter's two storey house. A new post office and residence was erected in 1861 and this offered telegraph, post and money-order services. Pillar boxes were introduced in 1880 and door to door services in 1873
Tanunda Fancy Bazaar
Tanunda Fancy Bazaar shop selling lanterns, basketware etc. stands in Tanunda next to the Telegraph Station.
Tanunda
Tanunda's Murray Street showing George Fischer's Tanunda Hotel. Five small girls are standing outside. Fischer was proprietor of the hotel from 1861-1871. The Post Office can be seen a few buildings down the street next door to Christen's Fancy Bazaar. The Telegraph Station is located within the Post Office building.
Honeymoon Gap
View of the Honeymoon Gap in the Heavitree Range, one of two main ranges that collectively are the Macdonnell Ranges. It was formerly named Temple Bar Gap by William Whitfield Mills when surveying the Overland Telegraph line, but was gazetted in 1965 as Honeymoon Gap. Temple Bar Gap was gazetted as the next gap approximately 10km downstream on Roe Creek.
Tennant Creek Line Man
Tennant Creek line man.
Approaching Two Wells
Avenue approaching Two Wells with a telegraph messenger boy.
Post Office, Two Wells
The Post Office with a telegraph messenger boy standing outside at Two Wells.
Post Office, Waikerie
[General description] The Post Office and Telegraph Office has an arched window popular in the 1920s. The property next door displays a sign advertising 'Two Bays' plant nursery selling 'Citrus and deciduous trees'. [On back of photograph] 'Waikerie Post Office / 1932 / Reproduced in the Chronicle for July 21, 1932'.