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Worker operating a drain cutter in a salt field, possibly at Dry Creek, South Australia. [PRG 1682/2/201] • Photograph

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Summary

35mm colour slides originally housed in a container with the label 'I.C.I. Technical', arranged in small boxes with the labels: Pt Augusta (6), Sidewinder Solar Salt SF (25), Quarry (21), Quarry (26), Osborne (18), Aerial (9), Bluebird LMG Excav (19), S/F series (23), Ardrossan conveyor S/F (1), S/F Harvest tech (20), S/F (24), S/F (23), Mt Bold Solar (4), S/F fauna birdlife (11), Quarry (9), S/F (26). Comprising images of: solar salt fields at Port Augusta and Port Paterson, salt fields at Dry Creek near Adelaide, quarry at Penrice and the soda ash works at Osborne, Mount Bold dam and reservoir, and numerous images of salt harvesting and quarrying machinery and vehicles including conveyors, stacker conveyors, crushers, drills, elevators and salt harvesters, in particular the 'Curdimurka' and 'Hodog' salt harvesters. See below for details.

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Physical description

Slide (colour), 35mm.

Dates / Publication details

1959

Photographer

Ward, Leonard Rosslyn

Subject

Imperial Chemical Industries
Salt -- South Australia
Salt workers -- South Australia
Salt flats -- South Australia
Salt industry and trade -- South Australia
Quarries and quarrying -- South Australia
Harvesting machinery -- South Australia
Dry Creek (S.A.)
Penrice (S.A.)
Osborne (S.A.)
Port Augusta (S.A.)
Rapid Bay (S.A.)
Bold, Mount, Reservoir (S.A.).

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General notes

To view other images in this series do an ARCHIVAL NUMBER search on PRG 1682/2.

Digitisation information

Date

11/02/2016

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

6,720 x 4,540 pixels (30.5 MP)

Size

91.55 MB

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