Photographic album of the La Perouse Telegraph Station, the La Perouse Aboriginal Reserve, the Easte...
Photographic album of the La Perouse Telegraph Station, the La Perouse Aboriginal Reserve, the Eastern Extension Australasian & China Telegraph Station and, views of Singapore, 1894-1897
About this item
Full title
Date
1894-1897
Call Numbers
PXA 7177
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
74 photographic prints (1 album) - gelatin silver
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Created before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
A bound photograph album with gilt lettered spine, 74 photographs on 32 pages set in New South Wales, largely relating to the telegraph station at La Perouse, with a few at Redfern, Manly, and the Blue Mountains and the La Perouse Aboriginal reserve, also presumably Singapore, which are associated with the Eastern Extension Australasian & China Tel...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Photographic album of the La Perouse Telegraph Station, the La Perouse Aboriginal Reserve, the Eastern Extension Australasian & China Telegraph Station and, views of Singapore, 1894-1897
Notes
General note
Several pages at the back have been left blank.
Signature / Inscriptions
Some images have inscriptions.
Attributions / Conjectures
The vendor has conjectured that the album may have belonged to a family of one of of the European staff members on the ship 'Sherard Osborn'.
Date note
3 images are Christmas and New Year cards from 1894 to 1897.
Object History
The vendor.
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Ancanthe, June 2018
Administrative / Biographical history
In 1873 three British companies, the British India Extension Telegraph Company, the British Australian Telegraph Company and the China Submarine Telegraph Company combined to form the Eastern Extension Australasia & China Telegraph Company (EETC). Its first major cable project was laid between Australia at La Perouse and New Zealand at Nelson in 18...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXA 7177
Record Identifier
nZNWLgvn
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nZNWLgvn
Other Identifiers
Reference code
9611520
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