John Watt Beattie
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John Watt Beattie was an Australian photographer.
John Watt Beattie in 1920
John Watt Beattie (1890) Hobart from the Harbour
J. W. Beattie standing and holding a laden pack horse on a bush track. Sepia-toned cabinet card with photographer's signature embossed L.L. Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, State Library of Tasmania.
John Watt Beattie (n.d.) Bill Thompson (Tasmanian convict)
Kelly Basin
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Kelly Basin is a bay on the south eastern side of Macquarie Harbour on the West Coast of Tasmania. It was named after James Kelly an early explorer of the Tasmanian coastline. It was the location of t
John Watt Beattie
…Central Highlands and on the West Coast of Tasmania, Beattie was employed by the mining company North Mount Lyell to photograph between Gormanston and Kelly Basin in the 1890s. Though Hore notes that Beattie warned that within just a "few years the highlands of Lyell will be bare desolate wastes," Davidson asserts…
North Mount Lyell Railway Avonside 4-6-0 No. 1 "J. Crotty" at Kelly Basin, circa 1900