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9630918
  • Title
    File 1: Photographs of Cotter family in Norfolk Island, Suva, Fanning Island and other Pacific locations and Bamfield Vancouver Island, B.C., 1929-1930
  • Call number
    PXE 1747/Folder 1
  • Level of description
    file
  • Date

    1929-1930
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    9630918
  • Physical Description
    160 photographs (1 folder) - gelatin silver
  • Scope and Content
    Elizabeth Marie Cotter as a child with her family while living in the Pacific area and Canada. Images include family photographs, social occasions, and landscape views.

    The Pacific Cable Board was responsible for laying the underwater cable from Bamfield, Vancouver through to Fanning Island then Suva, Fiji, onto Norfolk Island and Sydney. Images of these Pacific locations are possibly related to the Pacific Cable Board. Elizabeth's father, Robert Cotter, worked as a morse telegraphist.
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright: Created before 1955
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Some photographs have inscriptions and names on verso.
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