Item 08: Sail waggons, Malden Island, ca. 1900 / photographer unknown
Item 08: Sail waggons, Malden Island, ca. 1900 / photographer unknown
About this item
Full title
Date
ca. 1900
Call Numbers
SPF/2089
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
1 photographic print - 15.5 x 20.5 cm - gelatin silver
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Item
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Created before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Issue Copy
Digitised
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
Two passenger waggons with sails up, indigenous labourers and overseers
Alternative Titles
Full title
Item 08: Sail waggons, Malden Island, ca. 1900 / photographer unknown
Notes
General note
Transferred from SPF /Malden Island -- Transport (BM), February 2011
Digital order no:a8645001
Signature / Inscriptions
Titled in ink on the reverse
Contextual Information
Source
Pic.Acc.1547
Administrative / Biographical history
The guano diggers constructed a unique railroad on Malden Island, with cars powered by large sails. Laborers pushed empty carts from the loading area up the tramway to the digging pits, where they were then loaded with guano. At the end of the day, the sails were unfurled, and the train cars whisked back to the settlement by the prevailing southeas...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SPF/2089
Record Identifier
16AJXzzn
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/16AJXzzn
Other Identifiers
Reference code
917508
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