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Henry Coathupe Mais [B 6682] • Photograph

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Summary

Henry Coathupe Mais: Engineer in Chief S.A, Civil Engineer and Railways and Tramways Engineer. After a career of railway engineering in England, Sydney and Melbourne he won the position of Engineer and Architect to the South Australian Government. He lived in Rundle Street, Kent Town and was famous for his musical evenings and lavish suppers. He was instrumental in building a connection from the Barrier Ranges to the Transcontinental Railway in South Australia. He is wearing an embroidered levee dress uniform with bicorn hat and ceremonial sword to which he was entitled as a high level civil servant, following the British court tradition. He left Adelaide for Melbourne where he died at South Yarra in 1916.

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Physical description

Photograph; 13.3 cm x 8.2 cm

Dates / Publication details

1868

Photographer

Adelaide Photographic Co

Collection

Part of Portrait Collection

Subject

Mais, Henry C. (Henry Coathupe), 1827-1916
Engineers -- South Australia

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Digitisation information

Date

19/09/2005

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

2,103 x 3,425 pixels (7.2 MP)

Size

7.23 MB

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