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412331
  • Title
    Series 172: Copper, Port Kembla
  • Call number
    PXE 731/1366-1382
  • Level of description
    series
  • Date

    1950s
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    412331
  • Physical Description
    15 photographic prints - 21 x 26 cm or smaller - silver gelatin
    1 booklet (22 pages) - 18 x 25 cm - printed
    3 maps - 29.7 x 21.0 cm - printed
  • Scope and Content
    1366. Map of Port Kembla and District. Scale: 80cm = 1 mile
    1367. Electrolytic refining tanks
    1368. Tanks, withdrawing cathodes
    1369-1371. Casting billets
    1372. Wire bar furnace for casting market shapes
    1373. Charging crane charging scrap anodes, mainly charges blister copper
    1374. Casting anodes for electrolytic refining
    1375. Charging cathodes to the wirebar furnace
    1376. Pouring blister copper from converter
    1377. Casting billets from electric furnace
    1378. Bluestone, crystalizing tanks. Granulated bluestone produced under vacuum copper sulfate
    1379. Ore storage gantry, The Electrolytic Refining and Smelting Company of Australia Proprietary Limited, Military Road, Port Kembla
    1380. Baghouse and filter

    Printed:

    1381. Copper smelting and refining at Port Kembla. A description of the plant and processes used for the production of refined copper market shapes, and associated products / The Electrolytic Refining and Smelting Company of Australia Proprietary Limited. Port Kembla, New South Wales, ESA, 1950
    1382. Wollongong District Map / NRMA, RACA and Boyded Pty Ltd, Wollongong, NRMA. Contains A4 and B5 Wollongong and District maps and smaller town plan of Wollongong
  • Copying Conditions
    Copyright restrictions may apply:
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
  • Description source

    Titled from accompanying envelope.
  • General note

    PXE 731/1367 and PXE 731/1375-1377 on 20 x 25 cm cardboard mount.
    On the reverse of mount of PXE 731/1367 and PXE 731/1375-1377 is an enlarged, titled, black and white photocopy of the photographic print.
    Loose pages at PXE 731/1381.
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    'N.S.W. Education Department Visual Education Centre Library' stamped on reverse of photographs and on printed material. 'Arthur Cratchley, commercial photographer, 28 The Boulevarde, Mt. St. Thomas' stamped on reverse of most images.
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