- Title
- Souvenir of the visit of the Federal Parliamentary Party to the Northern Territory, April - May, 1912
- Repository
- National Library of Australia - Picture collection
- Reference
- PIC PIC/7459/1-133 LOC Album 1017 *
- Description
1 album (133 photographs) : b&w, sepia toned ; 28.5 x 37 cm. The album records the Commonwealth's increasing interest in the Northern Territory following its separation from South Australia in 1911. Photographs show the developments in transportation and communication and the difficulty of travel between remote centres. In 1912 the Federal Parliamentary Party left Sydney by ship for an inspection tour of the Territory with stops at Brisbane, Townsville and Cairns. The images document the Party's activities including a garden party held for the visitors at Darwin, the Darwin hospital, railway workshops and yards, train travel via Rum Jungle Government Demonstration Farm and Adelaide River to Pine Creek where the school, hospital and police station were inspected, then travel to Katherine by horse and buggy with a stop at Horseshoe Creek to inspect the police station. At Edith the group met with Aborigines before arriving at Brocks Creek to inspect the school and gold mine. The party then split up with some going overland to Daly River to view horticultural projects and others travelling by train to Darwin. Glimpses of life at the Bathurst Island Aboriginal mission are shown and of the buffalo ranch at Melville Island. Condition: Good; minor damage to album cover.
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- Title
- View believed to include a Chinese market garden
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1912
- Place
- Australia - Northern Territory - Pine Creek
- Details
Created: 15 May 2012
