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Commercial Road, Port Augusta [B 9375] • Photograph

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Summary

Commercial Road, Port Augusta showing a shipping agency owned by Bignell and Young. Thomas Young was a politician in the early days of the colony. His son, also Thomas Young became mayor of Port Augusta as well as founding the shipping agency Bignell and Young, and later Young and Gordon. He was also involved in copper mining. In 1881 Francis Bignell retired and the business went to Robert Gordon. At the time of this photograph in 1867 the business was a partnership between Bignell and Young and was a drapery and forwarding agency trading throughout the north of the colony in drapery, groceries and hardware.

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Physical description

Photograph;

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1870

Collection

Part of Port Augusta Collection

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Digitisation information

Date

23/11/2005

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,678 x 1,981 pixels (7.3 MP)

Size

21.88 MB

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