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Electric Telegraph Insulators


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Description: Two electric telegraph insulators, from the wreck of the 'Cambridgeshire', an iron full rigged ship wrecked close to Night Island, near Cape Barren Island, in 1875. The rock on which she went aground is now known as Cambridgeshire Reef.

Format: realia
Object: telegraphy
Material: porcelain

Titles:
Electric Telegraph Insulators

Subjects: shipwreckstelegraphy

Institution: George Town and District Historical Society Inc.

Object number: GTH_PS0155

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