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Post Office, Port Augusta [B 15151] • Photograph

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Summary

Post Office at Port Augusta. Sign on the front says "Beer's Board and Lodgings and Post Office". Notes on the back of the photograph say "Taken in the early 1880's at Port Augusta West. Mr E Beer was killed in an accident at the new Standpipe Hotel as a result of a fall from a horse, shortly after he had given up this business to take the licence of the Western Hotel in 1883. Advertisements similar to the wording on the signpost appeared in "Port Augusta Dispatch" in 1881". AS Beer is listed as the proprietor of the Western Hotel from 1884-1885.

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Physical description

Photograph; 21.5 cm x 12.4 cm

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1880

Collection

Part of Port Augusta Collection

Subject

Post office buildings -- South Australia -- Port Augusta

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Digitisation information

Date

07/07/2006

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,528 x 2,672 pixels (9.4 MP)

Size

28.31 MB

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