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2023-10-31T19:42:16+10:30Photo of Underground Catacomb Church Coober Pedy South Australia by Peter Caust
Photo of Underground Catacomb Church Coober Pedy South Australia by Peter Caust
Coober Pedy first Telephone Exchange before Telstra took over 1995
Kalman and Yolanda Szuk in front of their workshop, Szuk Engineering which had the tail end of a plane "crashed" into its roof. Yolanda and Kalman moved from Whyalla to Andamooka in the early 1960's where Kalman started manufacturing mining ladders and reinforced mining buckets as well as mining himself In 1973 they moved to Coober Pedy, where they lived in front of their workshop, Szuk Engineering, on Hutchison Street, now the Tyre Centre. Szuk's Engineering Shop was well known for their trade in sharpening picks, tungsten tipped augers, mining ladders, reinforced mining buckets, tumblers, reinforced blower pipes as well as [...]
Yolanda Szuk working on mining ladders manufactured in the Szuk Engineering workshop on Hutchison Street. Yolanda worked with her husband Kalman in the workshop. Yolanda and Kalman moved from Whyalla to Andamooka in the early 1960's where Kalman started manufacturing mining ladders and reinforced mining buckets as well as mining himself In 1973 they moved to Coober Pedy, where they lived in front of their workshop, Szuk Engineering, on Hutchison Street, now the Tyre Centre. Szuk's Engineering Shop was well known for their trade in sharpening picks, tungsten tipped augers, mining ladders, reinforced mining buckets, tumblers, reinforced blower pipes as well [...]
An Aboriginal camp on the Flat Series of 32 photos (1961 0214 to 1961 0245) from Adelaide University/Adelaide Teachers College work project on the Coober Pedy Aboriginal Reserve, August 1961, donated by David Hewitt Read story of Work Camp at GI 70025
The work party before departing Coober Pedy on 15th August 1961 with John Millar, director of SA Aboriginal Department (on left) Series of 32 photos (1961 0214 to 1961 0245) from Adelaide University/Adelaide Teachers College work project on the Coober Pedy Aboriginal Reserve, August 1961, donated by David Hewitt Read story of Work Camp at GI 70025
Tour operator David Feitz's Land Rover leaving for Adelaide on the Government truck Series of 32 photos (1961 0214 to 1961 0245) from Adelaide University/Adelaide Teachers College work project on the Coober Pedy Aboriginal Reserve, August 1961, donated by David Hewitt Read story of Work Camp at GI 70025
The worker's morning tea on the reserve Series of 32 photos (1961 0214 to 1961 0245) from Adelaide University/Adelaide Teachers College work project on the Coober Pedy Aboriginal Reserve, August 1961, donated by David Hewitt Read story of Work Camp at GI 70025
Dr HH Penny, work party leader recording George Morousen's life story Series of 32 photos (1961 0214 to 1961 0245) from Adelaide University/Adelaide Teachers College work project on the Coober Pedy Aboriginal Reserve, August 1961, donated by David Hewitt Read story of Work Camp at GI 70025
Reserve superintendent Don Busbridge taking the work party on a Sunday afternoon outing to the Breakaways Series of 32 photos (1961 0214 to 1961 0245) from Adelaide University/Adelaide Teachers College work project on the Coober Pedy Aboriginal Reserve, August 1961, donated by David Hewitt Read story of Work Camp at GI 700025