Album recording an inspection of the proposed Darwin to Adelaide railway route by Federal Public Works Committee, 1920-1921 [picture] / [John Newlands]
- Bib ID:
- 3044929
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Newlands, John, Sir
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- [1920-1921]
- 1 album (247 photographs) ; 25.5 x 34.5 cm.
- Summary:
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Album contains 16 photographs relating to Aboriginal life and customs in Central Australia including: warriors; death dance; dental clinic; Hermannsburg Mission; Hermannsburg School; Finke River; wolfram at Wauchope Creek; Aboriginal women, infants and children; Myall men.
Photographs include: Oodnadatta; Simpsons Gap; Ellery's Creek Gorge; Macumba Station; Todmordon Station; Dalhousie Station; Charlotte Waters Telegraph Station; Crown Point Station; camel teams; Alice Springs; Mackies Gap, James Range; Hermannsburg; Arltunga; Stirling Station; Wycliffe Well; Tennant Creek; Banka Banka Station; Newcastle Waters; Powells Creek; Goyder River; Newcastle Waters; Materanka Station; Australian Inland Mission; Marranboy; Katherine River Station; buffalo cart, Brocks Creek; Adelaide River; Mandaloo; Victoria Downs Station; date palms; Wave Hill Station; Roper River; Hodson Downs; Alexandra Station; Lake Nash Station; Austral Downs Station; Glen Ormiston Station; Malgra Station; Walgra Station; Urandangie Station; Begourie; Wandilla; Mungeranie; Mira Mitta Station; Goyders Lagoon Station; Glengyle Station; Bourke River; Birdsville.
- Biography/History:
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Newlands was a member of the Senate standing committee on public works in 1917-1923. In 1920-1921, as chairman of its sub-committee investigating the construction of a North-South Railway, he travelled over 18,000 km. by car, steamer, horseback and buggy examining possible routes.
- Notes:
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- Title devised by cataloguer based on information in album and from manuscript collection.
- Selected images individually catalogued and digitised.
- Condition: Varies, some images faded and discoloured.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-146259378
- Related Material:
- Related material: Letters written by Newlands to his family about the inspection of the North-South (Darwin-Adelaide) Railway route, 1921; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection MS 1516.
- Subject:
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- Newlands, John, Sir -- Journeys -- Photographs
- Politicians -- Travel -- Australia -- Photographs
- Railroads -- Australia -- Planning -- Photographs
- Aboriginal Australians -- South Australia -- Photographs
- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Photographs
- Australia, Central -- Description and travel -- Photographs
- Transcontinental Railway (S.A. and N.T.) -- Planning -- Photographs
- Occupation:
- Federal politicians
- Exhibited:
- Exhibited: "Child's Play", Visitors Centre, National Library of Australia, 14 July 2006 - 8 October 2006
- Related Records:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Created/Published Date is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Photograph
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1921
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