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75 minutes later than this photo? - [http://www.flickr.com/photos/csuarchives/3723188242/] History of the Wagga Wagga Post and Telegraph Office(s) - www.csu.edu.au/research/archives/docs/at%20the%20archives...

There is another print of this photo marked as "Unidentified" in the 4481 series - investigator.records.nsw.gov.au/asp/photosearch/photo.asp...

beachcomber australia Well spotted! I'll pass your info along for it to be updated. Thanks AB

Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection Each time I browse through Series 4481 (my favourite) I find more and more wrong descriptions, bad or mis-spelled titles (so that the images cannot be found in searches), and obvious errors. I wish there was a simple way to fix them up, but via flickr is ok for now.

beachcomber australia I will pass your comment along to those working with Photo Investigator. AB

Australian Heritage Database - Place ID: 15910 - designed by Sir John Fowler (codesigner of the Firth of Forth Bridge) - fabricated by P W McLellan, Glasgow, Scotland - load tested on 16 December 1880 and placed in service on 23 January 1881 - originally connected together by arched latticed braces, but now replaced with more modern squared braces

Replaced December 2006 -

The photo must have been taken soon after the bridge was completed - it looks shiny and new except for a few soot stains on the arched latticed braces. There are another two images in the series, very reminiscent in style / composition to the bridge at Gundagai Cowra, but ten years earlier. These look too good quality for the early 1880s - investigator.records.nsw.gov.au/asp/photosearch/photo.asp... investigator.records.nsw.gov.au/asp/photosearch/photo.asp...

The Australian Heritage Database entry states that this bridge "was one of the subjects of the 1884-86 railway bridges enquiry". Maybe the photos were taken for the enquiry? Just a thought.

[pretentious comment alert] I wonder if our old friend John Rae was the photographer? In the 1880s he was chairman of the Board for Public Tenders (Works), but would surely have an interest in the longest railway bridge(s) in NSW from his time as Railway Commissioner. Or even a very young John Degotardi Junior (1860-1937) ? The three photos show a strong sense of perspective. [alert over]

Read All About It - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/1529917 " Children's Tableau Earlier, 15,000 schoolchildren from 238 schools all over the Riverina and across the Victorian border excitedly greeted the Queen in Bolton Park. In the centre were 2,000 Wagga children, wearing red, white and blue crepe paper hats and tunics, with coloured "wavers" on their wrists, forming a huge Union Jack. ... "

The Queen seems to have arrived and departed Wagga Wagga by aircraft, not the train. trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/18409753

My picture in 2012