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TITLE: Immigration - Migrants in employment in Australia - Civil engineering, Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Scheme. Some 55% of the 840 men working for the first Australian company to win a major contract at the Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric and Irrigation Scheme are migrants from Britain and Europe. Two workers begin removing concrete framework from a newly lined section of the Tooma tunnel. Watching them are Italian born superintendent Paul Cellitti, 33 (wearing check shirt) and tunnel walker Pave Galelejevs, 36, who was born in Latvia. A walker is a man who is in charge of work in a section of the tunnel for one shift CATEGORY: photograph FORMAT: b&w negative TYPE: cellulose acetate STATUS: preservation material |
Contents date range |
1960 - 1960 |
Series number |
A12111
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Control symbol |
1/1960/16/62 |
Citation |
NAA: A12111, 1/1960/16/62 |
Item ID |
8275111 |
Location |
Canberra |
Access status |
Open |
Date of decision |
31 Jan 2004 |
Physical format |
PHOTOGRAPHS (allocated at series level) |
Visibility and availability indicators |
76. Item charge: Photographic
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Alternative series and control symbol |
A12111, M1737/11 |
Date registered |
21 Jan 2004 |
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