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DALY WATERS OVERLAND TELEGRAPH STATION

NLA PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/1-48-Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./Four explorers sitting on porch, Northern Territory, approximately 1880. https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-323415101/view ​  
NLA NT Expedition 1880-89 PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/1-48
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SLSA B-72713-40 'Daly Waters Telegraph Station, negative by W Holtze'
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SLSA B-22557 Aboriginals spear fishing Daly Waters c1895
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B-22559 Daly Waters Telegraph Station c1895
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SLSA B-22560 Daly Waters Overland Telegraph Line Party c.1895
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SLSA B-22561 interior of tent at Daly Waters 1895
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SLSA B-22558 Annual Stores delivery to Daly Waters Telegraph Station c1895

Walter J. Anderson

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Daly Waters - Murray family with A Goss - Walter J Anderson
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Elsey Station WJ Anderson
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Grandstand Darwin WJ Anderson
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Katherine River ferry WJ Anderson
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WJA Katherine Telegraph Stn 1890-95
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Katherine River WJA
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Katherine River - Constable Wilshire by WJ Anderson
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Springvale Crossing - Katherine River NT WJ Anderson
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AGSA - WJ Anderson Cavanagh St. Darwin 1889-90
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AGSA WJA Cattle in open scrubland
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WJA landscape nr Bowral attributed - Leski Auctions
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AGSA WJA Mentone Melbourne 1915

 NLA Collection - NT Expedition 1880-1889

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48 PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/1-48-NT expedition, 1880-1889./Four explorers sitting on porch, NT, approx 1880.
There was no Northern Territory Expedition 1880-1890 - the 1885 date estimate is to be ignored. When Fred Goss was Station Master at Daly Waters the system was upgraded to Duplex...." early in 1898, the Duplex System of sending or receiving two messages at the same time was introduced. For this purpose, a second wire – copper, the resistance of which was less than half of the old original iron line - facilitated the transmission of the business by at least 100% for two reasons. One, on account of the lower resistance, and, two, having now two wires, we could, when a fault occurred in a section of the copper, cut out that section and cut in a section of the other in its place." ......."Of the two experts, Mr. E Johns went to Darwin by sea and took charge of the Section for the time being, while the other, Mr. G Field, went overland to fix up the repeaters at Charlotte Waters, Alice Springs, Powell’s Creek and Daly Waters."{"Life in the Never-Never country of South Australia in the '70s to '90s : by a Telegraph Operator" author Frederick Goss} 
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Staff at Daly Waters Telegraph Station 1898
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1 PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/1 NT Expedition, 1880-1889./View on the Katherine River, Northern Territory, approximately 1885.
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2 PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/2 NT Expedition,1880-1889./Abraham's billabong, Northern Territory, approximately 1885.
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3 PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/3 NT Expedition, 1880-1889./Herd of horses near a well, Northern Territory, approximately 1885. No. 2 Well ~ DW? Ab stockmen winding ungeared double-handle windlass – buildings in background. [Grey horse]
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4 PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/4 NT Expedition, 1880-1889. Horses at Ironstone Camp, Birdum Creek, NT, c. 1885. [Buildings look like Govt. tanks – grey & * forehead – 2 x aboriginals dressed]
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5 PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/5 -48-Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./Explorers with teams of horses on the road, Northern Territory, approximately 1885 - [OT Pole on the track.]
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6 PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/6 Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./Horses at Stuart's Swamp, Daly Waters, Northern Territory, approximately 1885. [11 horses 1 light, one grey - pelicans & brolgas]
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5 Daly Waters Overland Telegraph Station - Line Maintenance Party shifting camp along the North South Track c 1885 - braced Oppenheim OT Pole at far left
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7 PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/7 Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./Telegraph Station, Daly Waters, Northern Territory, approximately 1885, 1.
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8 PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/8 -Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./Telegraph Station, Daly Waters, Northern Territory, approximately 1885, 2.
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9 PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/9 -Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./Waterfall at Daly Waters, Northern Territory, approximately 1885, 1 3 Mile Waterfall Daly Waters
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7 Daly Waters Telegraph Station 1885
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8 Daly Waters Telegraph Station minus the tree
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10 PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/10 -48-Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./Waterfall at Daly Waters, Northern Territory, approximately 1885, - 3 Mile Waterfall General View – [wide angle of previous image]
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11 PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/11 Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./Chinese hut, Northern Territory, approximately 1886.
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12 PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/12 Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./Cattle and horses grazing near Stuarts Swamp, Daly Waters, Northern Territory, approximately 1886. Scene Near Stuarts Swamp – [he doesn’t use apostrophes – S for Stuarts is different from S for swamp – midday on edge of claypan – calves a grey with a halter - ? short horns]
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PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/13 Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./Two Aboriginal men loading hay onto horse-drawn cart, Daly Waters, Northern Territory, approximately 1886.
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PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/14 Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./View of Daly Waters, Northern Territory, approximately 1886.
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PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/15 Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./Cattle and horses drinking at river, Daly Waters, Northern Territory, approximately 1886.
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13 Hay Carting – white man with hat, puggaree & straight Falcon style pipe – 2 Aboriginal blokes dressed maybe Lancewood country – one grey & nice tack
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PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/16 Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./Horses drinking at river, Daly Waters, Northern Territory, approximately 1886.
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PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/17 Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./Shrubland near Daly Waters, Northern Territory, approximately 1886. [Near or Rear Daly Waters?]
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PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/18 -Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./Cataracts of water, Daly Waters, Northern Territory, approximately 1886. Cataracts Daly Waters
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PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/19 Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./Horse and foal, Daly Waters, Northern Territory, approximately 1886. The Long and the Short of it. Big star on forehead
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PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/20 Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./Rocky Waterhole, Daly Waters, Northern Territory, approximately 1886.
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PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/21 -Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./River scene at Daly Waters, Northern Territory, approximately 1886, 1. Twilight Daly Waters
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PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/22 -Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./River scene at Daly Waters, Northern Territory, approximately 1886, 2. Three Mile Reach Daly Waters
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PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/23 Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./Telegraph Station surrounded by flood waters, Daly Waters, Northern Territory, approximately 1885.
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PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/24 Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./River scene at Daly Waters, Northern Territory, approximately 1886, 3.
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23 Daly Waters Telegraph Station surrounded by flood waters, Daly Waters, Northern Territory, approximately 1885.
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PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/25 Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./River scene at Daly Waters, Northern Territory, approximately 1886, 4. Evening Daly Waters – smashed boxes
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PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/26 Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./River scene at Daly Waters, Northern Territory, approximately 1886, 5. Whip Hole 5 Mile Reach Daly Waters
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PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/27 Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./River scene at Daly Waters, Northern Territory, approximately 1886, 6.
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PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/28 -Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./River scene at Daly Waters, Northern Territory, approximately 1886, 7.
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PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/29 Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./River scene at Daly Waters, Northern Territory, approximately 1886, 8. Twilight Daly Waters
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PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/30 -Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./Cattle in a river, Daly Waters, Northern Territory, approximately 1886.
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31 PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/31 Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./River scene at Daly Waters, Northern Territory, approximately 1886, 9.
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32 PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/1-48-Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./Aboriginal men at camp site, Northern Territory, approximately 1886 Aboriginal’s Camp Male Section – OTL worker at centre
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33 PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/1-48-Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./Aboriginal women and children at camp site, Northern Territory, approximately 1886. Aboriginal’s Camp Female Section – [camp dogs – pregnant x 2 – pipe – raised feature on kid’s face at 4 o’clock]
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34 PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/1-48-Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./Aboriginal hut at camp site, Northern Territory, approximately 1886. Typical Aboriginies hut N. T. Coolaman – rags - paperbark
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35 PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/1-48-Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./Aboriginal men preparing for corroboree, Northern Territory, approximately 1886. Aboriginies preparing for corroboree [not very tall hat ceremony.]
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36 PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/1-48-Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./Shrubland at Daly Waters, Northern Territory, approximately 1886. After Sunset Daly Waters
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37 PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/1-48-Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./Tents pitched at camp site, Daly Waters, Northern Territory, approximately 1886. Tent Life
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38 PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/1-48-Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./River scene at Daly Waters, Northern Territory, approximately 1886, 10.
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39 PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/1-48-Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./Aboriginal Australian men carving a beef carcass, Northern Territory, approximately 1886. Killing beast for beef
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40 PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/1-48-Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./Aboriginal Australian man standing on a log above the river, Daly Waters, Northern Territory, approximately 1886.
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41 PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/1-48-Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./Workers constructing a dam wall, Daly Waters, Northern Territory, approximately 1886.
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42 PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/1-48-Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./Trees on a river bank, Daly Waters, Northern Territory, approximately 1880, 1.
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43 PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/1-48-Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./Trees on a river bank, Daly Waters, Northern Territory, approximately 1880, 2.
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44 PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/1-48-Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./Sheeps and goats grazing, Northern Territory, approximately 1880. Sheep & Goats
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45 PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/1-48-Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./Trees on a river bank, Daly Waters, Northern Territory, approximately 1880, 3
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PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/1-48-Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./Horses at river bank, Daly Waters, Northern Territory, approximately 1880 The evening drink
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47 PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/1-48-Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./Trees on a river bank, Daly Waters, Northern Territory, approximately 1880, 4.
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48 PIC Album 1277 #PIC/19993/1-48-Northern Territory expedition, 1880-1889./Four explorers sitting on porch, Northern Territory, approximately 1880.
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The staff of the Daly Waters Overland Telegraph Station at Daly Waters in company uniform - 1898 G. Field install Duplex
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