Research Catalog

Title

Looking back : the Northern Territory in 1888 / edited by Val Dixon.

Publication

Casuarina, N.T. : Historical Society of the Northern Territory, 1988.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dixon, Val.
• Historical Society of the Northern Territory.

Description

viii, 98 p. : ill., ports.; 30 cm. +

Subject

Northern Territory > History

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Available from The Manager, Historical Society of the Northern Territory, P.O. Box 40544, Casuarina, N.T. 0811.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

South Australia Government Resident's Report on Northern Territory for the Year 1888 -- Northern Territory Administrator's Report for the Year 1888 -- The Northern Territory and South Australian politics in 1888 David Carment -- Port Darwin Mercantile and Agency Company and other Palmerston Businesses in 1888 Jenny Rich -- Salvation through education and training -- Teutonic Industrial Missions to Aborigines Tony Austin -- Looking back at nursing Jacqueline O'Brien -- Music in Darwin, 1888 Don Colgrave -- Transport 1988 Janet Dickinson -- The Port Darwin Line -- Postal and Telegraph Services in the Northern Territory in 1888 Kevin T. Livingston -- The Chinese in the Northern Territory in 1888 Timothy Jones -- Attitudes to Northern Territory Politics 1885-88, as revealed by the Northern Territory Times and Gazette Leith Barter -- The mining industry in 1888 Timothy Jones -- Old days -- old ways -- Val Dixon -- The nation builders -- pioneer pastoral attempts in the Territory Vern O'Brien -- I found it! A brief account of advertising in the NT Times and Gazette in 1888 Margaret Clinch -- Sea transport -- Northern Territory 1888 Betty Woods -- Palmerston to Pine Creek Railway 1886-1889 Stephen Rose -- Racing and other sports in 1888 Jenny Rich -- The Town of Stuart (now Alice Springs) in 1888 Vern O'Brien -- Doomed to wither and disappear -- Aboriginal and European race relations in 1888 Tony Austin -- The European cultural heritage -- structures of 1888 which remain in 1988 David Carment.

ISBN

0958809305

OCLC

27627683

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library