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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)

Note: May contain images of people who have died.

forgotten territory

(2016-2019)

Note: May contain images of people who have died.

forgotten territory

(2016-2019)

Note: May contain images of people who have died.

After a wet week in Alice Springs, there'll be a lot of this going on this weekend. Here the Bradshaw children play at the Claypans, just south of town in 1902. Their dad, Thomas Bradshaw, was the postmaster at the Alice Springs Telegraph Station from 1899 until 1908, during which he had three of his eight children. Over the years since then, a good dump of rain might see locals enjoying a spot of boating in very shallow-draught vessels before these ephemeral lakes dry up again.

Image: State Library of South Australia, B 22509

Published: 25 November 2018

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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