TAS PAPERS 316: Port Arthur convict establishment : records of telegrams sent and received between H...
TAS PAPERS 316: Port Arthur convict establishment : records of telegrams sent and received between H...
TAS PAPERS 316: Port Arthur convict establishment : records of telegrams sent and received between Hobart and Port Arthur, 1863-1871
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1863-1871
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TAS PAPERS 316
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1 volume
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Port Arthur convict establishment : records of telegrams sent and received between Hobart and Port Arthur, 1863-1871
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TAS PAPERS 316: Port Arthur convict establishment : records of telegrams sent and received between Hobart and Port Arthur, 1863-1871
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Formerly located at 4/5135
Microfilm copy available at CY 4737
Information compiled from "Tasmanian Papers nos. 1-342 and D 1-26 : provenance", compiled in the Mitchell Library, July 1967, in Guide to ML Tasmanian Papers on microfilm (compiled July 1985)
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Administrative / Biographical history
Semaphore signal stations operated between Hobart and Port Arthur from 1836 to 1877. The manual semaphore station on Mount Nelson closed with the arrival of the telegraph in 1880. The electric telegraph first linked Hobart and Launceston in 1857, and was extended around the island from the 1860s. -- Rosen, B., "Semaphore and signalling", and Alexan...
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TAS PAPERS 316
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9arpwaAn
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1080109
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