Stone cairn at Burke's tree, Cooper Creek, November, 2001 [picture] / Jon Rhodes
- Bib ID:
- 1566765
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Rhodes, Jon, 1947-
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 2001
- 1 photograph : gelatin silver ; image 26.1 x 17.4 cm., sheet 28.7 x 20.1 cm.
- Series:
- Burke & Wills Expedition, sites and memorials.
- Notes:
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- Condition: Good.
- Part of the collection of photographs of the different sites and memorials of the Burke and Wills Expedition.
- Title supplied by artist.
- Inscription on the plaque reads: "Robert O'Hara Burke died here 26 June 1861."
- "Apart from the plaque there is no information about who erected the cairn or when."--Note from the photographer.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-146658103
- Subject:
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- Burke, Robert O'Hara, 1821-1861 -- Monuments -- Photographs
- Burke and Wills Expedition (1860-1861) -- Monuments -- Photographs
- Historic sites -- Cooper Creek Region (Qld. and S.A.) -- Photographs
- Explorers -- Monuments -- Queensland -- Cooper Creek -- Photographs
- Cooper Creek Region (Qld. and S.A.) -- Photographs
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- Copyright restrictions apply.
- Exhibited:
- Exhibited: "Things: photographing the constructed world", Temporary Exhibition Gallery, National Library of Australia - 24 November 2012 - 17 March 2013.
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Burke & Wills Expedition, sites and memorials.
This collection contains 32 records. - Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Photograph
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2001
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