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From the Collection of Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum 49 Hogan S Tatura VIC

Description: A dark blue hard cover. Top right hand corner "Archival records German Internment Camps in Australia.
Size: L 31 cm x W 26 cm x D 4 cm
Object Registration: C0775
Keywords: german internees, dunera, iran, gerhard meinke
Historical information: An interesting account of the German internees from Iran. The names, hut allocations, hut leaders, when transferred to Tatura, 1944, when repatriated, their entertainment including plays, violin concert. The book found in the Sydney Hotel and then secret and confidential report. Tatura 8 September 1940 internees ex HMT Dunera ex Port Melbourne - 518 internees who disembarked 3 September 1940.
When Made: 1943-1992
Inscriptions & Markings: As above
Last updated: 12 Jun 2018 at 1:28PM

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Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum, Tatura

Medium sized black and white photograph. Eildon Reservoir overall picture / dam wall and construction huts left of middle / dam filled with water right of wall / tree covered hills beyond.

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Taken by photographer for State Rivers and Water Supply Commission.

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Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum, Tatura

Medium sized black and white photograph. Eildon Weir / Original structure 1918 / Rock and earth fill dam wall / concrete spillway (lower left) / Water middle distance / hills beyond

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Taken by photographer for State Rivers and Water Supply Commission.

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Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum, Tatura

Medium sized black and white photograph. Workmen laying rock beaching material on the earth fill bank of the cattanach canal

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Taken by photographer for State Rivers and Water Supply Commission.

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Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum, Tatura

Medium sized black and white photograph. Foreground - Theodolite / Two men / Rock Crusher / Tractor pulling To construct earth fill bank at cattanach canal

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Taken by photographer for State Rivers and Water Supply Commission.

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Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum, Tatura

Medium sized black and white photograph. Gradall machine excavating trench for beaching

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Taken by photographer for State Rivers and Water Supply Commission.

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Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum, Tatura

Medium sized black and white photograph. Bucyrus Eric 6 yd. Walking Dragline - scoop filled with earth excavating channel.

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Taken by photographer for State Rivers and Water Supply Commission.

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Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum, Tatura

Medium sized black and white photograph. P.O.W Camp 13 at Murchison laundry and shower building with water tank on stand above roof. Sundry small buildings to the right. Gravelled road foreground. Note - This complex of buildings water commission camp, 1950

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Taken by photographer for State Rivers and Water Supply Commission.

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Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum, Tatura

Small black and white photograph. Waranga Reservoir embankment (north end) man left of picture, looking towards narrow gauge railway line along which the beaching material is transparent from a nearby hill. Windmill left of centre and small boat and house right corner.

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Taken by photographer for State Rivers and Water Supply Commission.

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Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum, Tatura

Small black and white photograph. Earth embankment level being raised with clay hauled in scoops up the trestle ramp by horse-powered cable and pulleys. Workmen foreground right. Waranga reservoir.

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Taken by photographer for State Rivers and Water Supply Commission.

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Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum, Tatura

Medium sized black and white photograph. Centre picture: Horse drawn scoops dig clay from the borrow pit, and the central horse-drawn cart moves under the bridge to collect clay through an opening in the roof for transport to the embankment.

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Taken by photographer for State Rivers and Water Supply Commission.

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Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum, Tatura

Medium sized black and white photograph. Waranga reservoir - rubble spray wall - 2'0" high - centre foreground - rail lines and trees on right mid picture

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Taken by photographer for State Rivers and Water Supply Commission.

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Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum, Tatura

Medium sized black and white photograph. Waranga Reservoir main outlet - Western main channel looking downstream to Waranga. Concrete bridges and control structure join earthen banks of channel. Windmill mid-left of picture.

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Taken by photographer for State Rivers and Water Supply Commission.

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Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum, Tatura

Medium sized black and white photograph. Weir wall of granite blocks nearing completion viewed from downstream. Construction camp of tents and sheds mid-picture beyond wall.

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Taken by photographer for State Rivers and Water Supply Commission.

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Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum, Tatura

Medium sized black and white photograph. Weir being constructed of granite blocks quarried from nearby Mt. Black. Four men standing on the granite steps - gantry right mid-picture. Note: Empty cart resting mid-top of picture.

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Taken by photographer for State Rivers and Water Supply Commission.

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Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum, Tatura

Medium sized black and white photograph. Wooden trestles across river - coffer dams on left fallen timber foreground lying in water of the river bed.

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Taken by photographer for State Rivers and Water Supply Commission.

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Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum, Tatura

Medium sized black and white photograph. Mid-foreground two men on the rail tracks on the timber trestle which carry an overhead gantry to handle heavy material in the construction of the Goulburn Weir

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Taken by photographer for State Rivers and Water Supply Commission.

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Photograph - Goulburn Weir Gate Replacement

Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum, Tatura

Medium sized black and white photograph. Workmen on the job - replacing gates at Goulburn Weir 1965. Granite blocks and rubble right of picture, workmen pushing barrow of blocks towards right, concrete replacement gates centre picture, S.R and W.C caterpillar tracked dragline near top right corner.

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Taken by photographer for State Rivers and Water Supply Commission.

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Photograph - Goulburn Irrigation System

Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum, Tatura

Medium sized black and white photograph. Map showing the Goulburn Irrigation System in Northern Victoria including Eildon Reservoir, Waranga Reservoir, Eppalock Reservoir, Eppalock, Cairn Curran, Laancoorie, Tullaroop Reservoirs, the Stuart Murray, Cattanach Canal, East Goulburn Main and Waranga Western Channels.

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Taken by photographer for State Rivers and Water Supply Commission.

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Photograph - Stuart Murray Canal Sign

Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum, Tatura

Medium sized black and white photograph. Sign:-"STATE RIVERS AND WATER SUPPLY COMMISSION/GOULBURN IRRIGATION SYSTEM/STUART MURRAY CANAL/CONVEYS WATER FROM GOULBURN WEIR TO WARANGA RESERVOIR/DESIGNED AND CONSTRUCTED BY VICTORIAN WATER SUPPLY DEPARTMENT - 1981./STUART MURRAY M.I.C.E CHIEF ENGINEER."

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Taken by photographer for State Rivers and Water Supply Commission.

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Photograph - Goulburn Weir Sign

Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum, Tatura

Medium sized black and white photograph. Sign describing Goulburn Weir - "State rivers and Water Supply Commission/Goulburn Weir/Diversion Headworks for Goulburn Irrigation System/Designed and Constructed by Victorian Water Supply Department 1891./Full Supply Level is 408 Feet Above Sea Level/Stuart Murray M.I.C.E Chief Engineer/William Henderson A.M.I.C.E Supervising Engineer."

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Taken by photographer for State Rivers and Water Supply Commission.

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