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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
Call number
PXA 7177
Level of description
fonds
Date

1894-1897
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Photographs
Reference code
9611520
Physical Description
74 photographic prints (1 album) - gelatin silver
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 1876.

Reference:
Library correspondence file.
Scope and Content
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 Telegraph Station Co (EETC) deployment which operated at La Perouse from 1876 to 1917. These show EETC buildings, and personnel and their social activities which include tours and picnics to other parts of Sydney.

There are 3 photographs showing people at the La Perouse Aboriginal Reserve ca. 1894. They are of a group of 8 adults and 5 children outside a hut. A man in the group is shown laying out fishing nets, one of a man by his hut and the other a general view of the Aboriginal reserve.

There is a photographic copy of a farewell song composed in May 1894 at La Perouse for the crew of the 'Sherard Osborn', the cable-laying and repair ship of EETC, which arrived in Port Jackson from its base in Singapore on 11 March 1894, commanded by Captain Madge. The song includes names of various crew members of the ship.
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
General note

Several pages at the back have been left blank.
Signatures / 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.
Name
Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company Limited
La Perouse Aboriginal Community
Sherard Osborn (Ship)
Subject
Aboriginal Australians--New South Wales--Reservations
Aboriginal Australians--New South Wales--La Perouse.
Telegraph--New South Wales.
Place
Cable Station (Anzac Parade, La Perouse, N.S.W.)
La Perouse (N.S.W.)
Singapore
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