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forgotten territory

(2016-2019)

Forgotten Territory was a weekly column of historic photos in the Northern Territory News which I curated from 2016 until 2019 supported by the collections of the Northern Territory Library, Northern Territory Archives Service, State Library of South Australia as well as other major collections and Facebook groups from around Australia. Click on the images to read the story behind the image.

Note: May contain images of people who have died.

forgotten territory

(2016-2019)

Forgotten Territory was a weekly column of historic photos in the Northern Territory News which I curated from 2016 until 2019 supported by the collections of the Northern Territory Library, Northern Territory Archives Service, State Library of South Australia as well as other major collections and Facebook groups from around Australia. Click on the images to read the story behind the image.

Note: May contain images of people who have died.

forgotten territory

(2016-2019)

Forgotten Territory was a weekly column of historic photos in the Northern Territory News which I curated from 2016 until 2019 supported by the collections of the Northern Territory Library, Northern Territory Archives Service, State Library of South Australia as well as other major collections and Facebook groups from around Australia. Click on the images to read the story behind the image.

Note: May contain images of people who have died.

forgotten territory

(2016-2019)

Forgotten Territory was a weekly column of historic photos in the Northern Territory News which I curated from 2016 until 2019 supported by the collections of the Northern Territory Library, Northern Territory Archives Service, State Library of South Australia as well as other major collections and Facebook groups from around Australia. Click on the images to read the story behind the image.

Note: May contain images of people who have died.

forgotten territory

(2016-2019)

Forgotten Territory was a weekly photo column of historic images in the Northern Territory News which I curated from 2016 until 2019 supported by the collections of the Northern Territory Library and other cultural institutions around Australia, as well as local history Facebook groups.

Click on the images to read the story behind the image.

Warning: May contain images of people who have died.

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On this day 35 years ago Northern Territory policewomen were allowed to wear slacks for the first time as part of their standard uniform....

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Dressed in traditional trousers, a jacket and hat, many remember Granny Lum Loy walking each day from Stuart Park to the centre of...

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This was many people's favourite shop in Alice Springs in the sixties - the dress shop at the Riverside Hotel, now the Todd Tavern, which...

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Sometimes Territorians have to travel a long way for a party. But as the wise saying goes, if you focus on the journey not the...

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This week in 1912, a young woman in Darwin became a hero. Originally from Borroloola, Cissy McLeod was fostered as a child by Captain...

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This week the Territory farewelled a great matriarch, Aunty Nancy Croft (née Gibbs). She was born in the northern Tanami Desert in 1928...

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Our love affair with dust and speed continues this weekend with the Finke Desert Race. But in the 1950s, long before Finke, a legendary...

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Territorians have been enduring a cold snap over the last week, with sub-zero overnight temperatures in the Centre and the coldest day in...

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