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Landing the sub-marine telegraph cable

Details:

Title

Landing the sub-marine telegraph cable,

Photographer

Sweet, Samuel White, 1825-1886,

Photo number

PH1132/0002,

Collection

Jan Hills Collection, PictureNT, PictureNT,

Date

1871-11-07,

Location

Port Darwin,

Description

Landing the Australian end of the Java and Australia cable at Port Darwin November 7th 1871. Numbered key on photograph to people as follows. 1. Captain RC Halpin, Commodore, 2. J Moody, Captain 'Investigator', 3. LH LeGuay, 2nd officer 'Investigator', 4. Willy Halpin, 3rd officer 'Investigator', 5. WB Whitmore, Surgeon 'Investigator', 6. David Davies, Boatswain 'Investigator', 7. Carpenter 'Investigator',

Language

English,

Subject

Overland Telegraph Line, ships, submarine cables,

Digital format

4770 x 6000 pixels : 24bpp ; 83.87Mb, back 86.38Mb, framed 81.21Mb, jpeg 5.14Mb, back 5.25Mb, framed 5.68Mb.,

Format

1 photograph : sepia ; 14.5 x 18.5 cm.,

File type

image/tiff,

Use

No known copyright,

Copyright owner

Library & Archives NT,

License

https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/pdm,

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/305260,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/359690

Related items

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/359691, https://hdl.handle.net/10070/359692,