Three miners outside their tent accommodation at Moonta |
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| Title : | Three miners outside their tent accommodation at Moonta |
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| Source : | B 60127 | ||
| Date of creation : | ca. 1890 | ||
| Format : | Photograph | ||
| Dimensions : | 20 cm x 15.5 cm. | ||
| Contributor : | State Library catalogue | ||
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| Description : |
MOONTA: Three miners outside their tent accommodation at Moonta; a sign over the entrance to the tent describes it as 'Moonta Villa' The first dwellings in South Australia consisted of tents, huts made out of bush timber and rushes, crude wattle and daub structures with earth floors and some prefabricated buildings. Most of the early settlers found themselves in an unfamiliar and 'hostile' environment. Insufficient prefabricated dwellings had arrived, there was no lime for mortar and brickfields and quarries were not yet in operation. Tents and prefabricated buildings were the norm for some time, particularly during major influxes of immigrants. Some shelter was also provided by Indigenous inspired constructions. These were constructed by draping long sheets of bark over a central pole which was propped up on forked branches. These provided some protection but were inadequate for long term use. Prefabricated buildings consisted of small well-made wooden houses built in sections in England and packed especially for export. These were known as 'portable colonial cottages', more commonly known as 'Manning houses' after the London carpenter who designed them. In spite of the recommendation for the purchase of these buildings, they came under criticism for being expensive to import from England, and for becoming oppressively hot in the South Australian summer. |
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| Related names : | Tents -- South Australia -- Moonta. Pioneers -- South Australia -- Moonta. |
| Coverage year : | 1890 |
| Period : | 1884-1913 |
| Region : | Yorke Peninsula |
| Further reading : | Apperly, Richard A pictorial guide to identifying Australian architecture: styles and terms from 1788 to the present Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1989
Cox, Philip Australian colonial architecture, Sydney: Lansdowne, 1993 Herbert, Gilbert, Manning houses: their provenance and extent in South Australia: a preliminary inventory, Adelaide: Faculty of Architecture & Town Planning, University of Adelaide, 1979 Herbert, Gilbert The portable colonial cottage, [London?]: Society of Architectural Historians, 1972 Heritage of the city of Adelaide: an illustrated guide edited by Susan Marsden, Paul Stark and Patricia Sumerling, Adelaide: Corporation of the City of Adelaide, 1990 Jensen, Elfrida Colonial architecture in South Australia: a definitive chronicle of development 1836-1890 and the social history of the times, Adelaide: Rigby, 1980 |
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