Surveyors' campsite in Canberra

Surveyor Charles Scrivener's postcard sketch of the surveyors' campsite in Canberra, 23 February 1909 (the huts are still standing today, less than 100 metres from the Parliament House). While Scrivener and his team are rightly given credit for the final, elegant survey of Canberra, completed on 25 February 1909, it is worth noting that they built on the earlier work of a small number of engineers and surveyors in the Dept of Public Works of the NSW Government. Scrivener's personal choice for the capital was Dalgety.