Photographs taken during surveys for the Transcontinental East-West railway route [B 70626] • Photograph


Marram tanks near Ooldea
Horses drinking at a trough at Marram tanks near Ooldea. Slide is damaged.


Filling water casks at Ooldea
Filling water casks and a chance to do some washing Ooldea Soak.


Ooldea Soak
Well with windlass and two men with horses and buggy thought to be at Ooldea Soak. Slide is badly damaged.


Wynbring rock hole
Image thought to be Wynbring rock hole. Yet to be confirmed.


Camel team in the far west of South Australia
Packed camel team moving away through low salt bush country in the far west of South Australia. Slide is badly cracked.


Granite rise and salt bush
Granite rise with salt bush and blue bush on the edge of the Nullarbor Plain.


Tarcoola
Settlement in the distance thought to be Tarcoola.


Wallala Rock
Image thought to be Wallala Rock near Ceduna. Yet to be confirmed. Alternatively this may be Mulgathing Rock or Gibraltar Rock near Tarcoola.


Man at a dam
Man overlooking a dam holding water runoff from granite rise. This feature with concrete gutter to direct flow into the dam may be Pildappa Rock, 15 Km north-east of Minnipa.


Landscape showing vegetation
Landscape with black oak, mallee and salt bush.


Men at water soak
Four men with horses and unhitched laden buggies at a water soak on a flat gibber plain. Slide is cracked.


Outback building
Stone building and wooden outbuildings possibly at Oakden Hills station.


Salt lake
Salt lake and flat topped headland with dunes in foreground, possibly in the Lake Hart, Pernatty Lagoon area.


Gibber plain
Gibber plain stretching to low hills possibly in Gawler Ranges area.


Man with horse drawn buggy
Man with horse drawn buggy in dune area. Slide is slightly cracked.


View of salt lake
Salt lake, hills and sandy dune possibly in the Lake Hart or Pernatty Lagoon area. Slide is cracked.


Men in buggy near salt lake and hill
Two men in horse drawn buggy looking towards a salt lake and hill, possibly in the Lake Hart or Pernatty Lagoon area.


Men with tripod on a beach
Glass plate negative thought to show the Engineers in Chief on the beach at Eucla with the SS Governor Musgrave and another unidentified ship standing offshore. The tripod may be for photographic or survey purposes.