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MINIA (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded October 2008
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Laying the Pacific Cable from Bondi, Sydney to Auckland, New Zealand
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beachcomber australia said:
Possibly November 1912 at Bondi, according to this slightly tongue-in-cheek SMH report with illustrations - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/15376333 .
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Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
beachcomber australia Thanks beachcomber! I think you're right. Just updating the details now. :)
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Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Ah, just realised you'd already done the digging about Cleary. Yes, as I understand it, Hood was the one actually taking the photographs but the contract was under Cleary...It's a potential can of worms :)
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covid convict said:
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/238731978 - this pic appeared in the Sydney Daily Telegraph on Monday, 18th November, 1912...the pic was taken two days previously, on Saturday, 16th November, 1912... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/143280732 - the pic also appeared in the Australasian [Melbourne] on 23rd November, 1912...in a full page pictorial feature on the laying of the cable...