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Reference number |
Name |
Description |
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Lt-Col George Gawler |
Letter describing the circumstances in which Henry Bryan lost his life during Gawler's northern expedition to Mount Bryan 1839 |
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George Price Deane |
Diaries kept by Deane while a member of George Woodroffe Goyder's Northern Territory Survey Expedition of 1868-1870 and of George Galbraith MacLachlan's Roper River expedition from 22 July to 24 September 1870 |
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Moonta Herald and North Territory Gazette |
Manuscript newspapers (volume 1, no. 1 (2 January 1869), no. 2 (9 January 1869) and no.3 (16 January 1869) associated with the Northern Territory survey expedition. Much of the content is tongue-in-cheek comment on the members of the expedition and their activities aboard the ship. Publication credits: 'Printed and published for the Proprietors at the Office abaft the main-mast ship "Moonta" every Saturday morning'. |
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William Dougall |
Letter written from Trunklinford [?] about the location of John McDouall Stuart's marked tree 1884 |
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Charles Henry Johnston |
Diary kept during the building of the Overland Telegraph Line 1872 and station life 1873 |
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Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell |
Extracts from a lecture on the colony of South Australia, describing early exploration, the problem of water and how it compares to Ireland and elsewhere 1863 |
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David Lindsay |
Notes for a speech on exploration by a member of the Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition 1891-92 |
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William Alfred Crowder |
Diary of 63 detailed pages kept by a member of the Overland Telegraph Line construction party 1871-72 |
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Brenda Baker |
History of Custance and Hinckley Contractors who worked from 1853-54 on South Australian railways 2013 |
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Alexander Scott Cameron |
Letters written while working on the Ghan railway; on the yacht Beatrice, the S.S. Innamincka,the H.M.C.S. Protector, the Bolivia, the S.S. Kolya, and on the Morgan-Kapunda railway line 1896-1900 |
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Governor George Gawler |
Selected papers including Julia Gawler diary kept during Charles Sturt’s expedition to Mount Bryan 1839 |
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Mabel Hardy |
Paper on the career of Frederick Estcourt Bucknall 1860-87 with reference to the North-South Railway and his proposal for a Southern terminal and Canal at Grange 1965 |
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William Webster Hoare |
Diary as surgeon’s assistant and amateur naturalist on Surveyor-General George Goyder’s Northern Territory Survey Expedition 1868-69 |
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Sir Charles Todd |
Family letters, mainly by his wife Alice, written during Todd's absence on construction of the Overland Telegraph in 1872 and and a letter by Todd to his family in England describing his voyage to South Australia in the Irene 1855 |
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Bessie Mountford |
Five detailed diaries kept by Bessie as secretary to her husband, Charles Mountford’s American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land 1948 |
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George Charles Hawker |
Diary kept by George Hawker as a member of Captain EC Frome's expedition to the north-east July-August 1843 |
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Charles P Mountford |
Two manuscript journals kept by Mountford on the South Australian Government Expedition to the Simpson Desert to search for the possible remains of explorer Ludwig Leichhardt 1938 |
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Sir Dominick Daly |
Two journals possibly by Joanna Wynn Daly and Mr Waterhouse of the trip to the South East by Governor Sir Dominick Daly and his party in February 1863 |