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Sue Britt2022-02-03T21:29:15+10:30Chasing Opal at Coober Pedy 1940's Style by J.E. Grund BI 00056 6
Chasing Opal at Coober Pedy 1940's Style by J.E. Grund BI 00056 6
Article - Issue No 28 WESTLINK 20th December 2006 - "Jake Santing - the Royal Mail"!! Photo -'Sunday morning at Kingoonya Hotel' circa 1947 L-R Harold Watts, Max Pickering, John Showers, Frank Cohen, Blue Hunter and Bill Fitzgerald click to view BI 00030 3
Adelaide Advertiser article 28 May 1940 'Petrified Trees' in the "Out among the people" column re Albert Miles' unearthing of petrified trees near Coober Pedy
Adelaide Advertiser article 1940 "The 'Printy' or 'Perentie' re letter from Albert Miles and his finding a perentie lizard
BI 00034 17 Minnie Berrington's Miner's Right # 6858 22/9/1941
Jack Rosie & Bill Dawson's camp at the Old 4 Mile - with 1925 Chev
Scanned copy of an unopened cover sent to Mrs Pearl Koonce of Wynne Arkansas USA by Postmaster Alf North in 1940 The cover includes a promotion for the Royal Adelaide Exhibition March 15 - May 11 1940, as well as "one week in Adelaide for five pounds and five shillings" by the SA Tourist Bureau It was donated by Mr David Saks of Memphis, Tennessee, a member of the Memphis Stamp Collectors Society
Article in Covers - 'Underground Post Office' by C Plummer 10.1940 There is a photo of Alf North outside the post office. Mention is made of the banking service and the library he maintains.
Mrs Turner Had the Store Here in Coober Pedy 1940 to 1950, book by Mary Hammond (nee O'Toole)