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Post Office - Telegraph [BRG 347/1739] • Photograph

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Summary

Photograph of telegraphy instruments mounted on a wooden board possibly in a museum. The inscription says "These telegraph instruments were used to transmit from Kalangadoo on 3rd March 1962. The last telegram to be sent by morse code from a South Australian Post Office thus ending an era of morse telegraphy in the Post Office in South Australia which began on 18th February 1856."

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Physical description

Negative (acetate); 11.6 cm x 16 cm

Dates / Publication details

1963

Photographer

Arthur Studio (Mount Gambier, S.A

Collection

Part of Arthur Collection

Subject

Museums -- South Australia -- Mount Gambier
Telegraph -- South Australia -- Mount Gambier
Telegraph -- South Australia -- Kalangadoo
Telegraph -- Equipment and supplies
Postal service -- South Australia

Catalogue record

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General notes

Part of a collection of photographs by Mount Gambier photographer, Eric Arthur.

Digitisation information

Date

07/04/2006

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

2,468 x 3,081 pixels (7.6 MP)

Size

7.63 MB

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