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About the artwork:

The Telephone Call

Exhibited: The Midlands: Whimsy and Pathos by Mandy Hunniford, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston 2019

Inventor, teacher and astronomer, Alfred Biggs made the first telephone call in the Southern Hemisphere in 1874. He cleverly constructed his own telephone sets based on the sketches by Alexander Bell, successfully transmitting sounds between Launceston and Campbell Town,

These telephone sets are now in the permanent collection of the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston, Tasmania.

About The Almond Garden collection:

Presenting Tasmanian history in a way that is distinctive in its historical/contemporary narrative, this collection explores several historical events and individuals connected to Campbell Town and the surrounding Midlands area.