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Saltia Hotel, Saltia [B 10681] • Photograph

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Summary

Saltia Hotel. David Lithgow was the licensee in the early 1880s. Copy in Sweet Collection folder 5 has Sweet signature (Sweet Adelaide 397). Saltia was a town between Port Augusta and Quorn. The hotel as built in 1859 to service the bullock drivers and the proprietor was David Lithgow. A school was established in 1864 with twenty students. Evening classes were available for students who could not attend during the daytime. By 1880 there were forty three students attending the school. Thomas Lees house was demolished to make way for the railwayline and later the town died as there was no need for the bullock teams to stop at Saltia. A famous son of Saltia was John Maslin (1826-1908) who was a sheep property owner.

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Physical description

Photograph; 20.3 cm x 14.4 cm

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1880

Photographer

Sweet, Samuel White

Collections

Part of Saltia Collection
Part of Sweet Collection

Subject

Saltia (S.A.)

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Digitisation information

Date

04/01/2006

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,618 x 2,763 pixels (10.0 MP)

Size

30.02 MB

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