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Pop Bonsor at the boilers on the P.S. Captain Sturt

c. 1920, Photograph, B 74575

Digital copy of a black and white photograph of 'Pop Bonsor at the boilers' of the P.S. Captain Sturt.; believed to be William Bonsor.

Burnside

1970, Photograph, B 39549

Aerial view of Kurralta House acquired by Hooker's Land Agents in 1968. Original subdivision 7-8 acres reduced to 3 acres by cutting off garden.

View at Yankalilla, South Australia

Light, William, c. 1838, Artwork, B 8436

Colour lithograph depicting a scene at Yankalillah (sic) including an encampment to the right in the foreground and rolling coastal hills typical of the area. There is a small water inlet shown flowing past the camp. See PRG 1/37/1 for more complete version.

The 'Alexander Yeats' wrecked on the Cornish Coast

c. 1895, Photograph, PRG 1373/13/84

The wooden ship 'Alexander Yeats', 1589 tons, wrecked on the Cornish Coast. [w ship, 1589t, ON72266, 218.2 x 40.2 x 24.0, B. 1876. D. Lynch. Portland, NB Owners: G. Windram, reg. Liverpool. Wrecked Cornish Coast.]

Moonta Mines

c. 1908, Photograph, B 19607

Rotunda at Moonta mines.

"Carclew", North Adelaide

c. 1910, Photograph, B 8437

"Carclew", Strangways Terrace, North Adelaide: the south eastern facade of the residence of Sir Langdon Bonython. The acre of land was sold many times before James Chambers purchased it in 1861 and built a two storey home. James Chambers sponsored John McDouall Stuart's epic expedition across Australia. A grander house was built in 1897 by Sir Hugh Dennison and later sold it to the Bonython family. Sir Langdon named the house Carclew after his ancestor's land in Cornwall.

With ship Glaramara at the wharf

c. 1879, Photograph, B 8439

With ship Glaramara at the Port Augusta wharf. Sacks of grain are awaiting loading. Teams of horses have pulled the cart filled with sacks to the wharf which houses the warehouse of J Dunn and Son.

Wallaroo Smelting Works

c. 1905, Photograph, B 45219

Electric Gantry for coal handling at Wallaroo smelting Works.

Lake Fowler

c. 1900, Photograph, B 31243

Lake Fowler, heaps of crude salt owned by "Castle" Salt.

North Adelaide

c. 1910, Photograph, B 8440

North Adelaide looking west from the top of St Peters Cathedral. Pennington Terrace can be seen on the left.

Anzac Day, Adelaide

1915, Photograph, PRG 280/1/3/15

A large crowd watch the first Anzac Day procession in King William Street, Adelaide, on 13 October 1915.

Lawrence Allen Wells

c. 1936, Photograph, B 8441

Lawrence Allen Wells, Leader of the Calvert Expedition to the Australian Desert. He was a born at Penola and after a career as a surveyor and explorer he was known as the last of the great inland explorers. He was modest, reticient and a friend of Aboriginals where he was known as the Eagle-eyed Man.

St John's Ambulance Brigade personnel

Advertiser Newspapers Ltd, 1949, Photograph, B 7798/44

Four members of the St John's Ambulance Brigade on parade at unidentified location.

The Elder Scientific Exploration Expedition, 1891-2: photographs

Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, 1891, Photograph, B 8442/1-36

Album containing thirty six albumen plates with printed captions, showing Aboriginal people encountered during the Elder Scientific Exploration Expedition, 1891-1892. The expedition left from Nilpinna Spring, near Cootanoorina in northern South Australia and explored areas of the Everard Ranges, Birksgate Ranges, Fraser Ranges and Hampton Plains regions in Western Australia. An index to the numbered plates appears at the front of the album. The wording of the captions is taken directly from the printed labels below the plates.

Wakefield Street

Walker, Gordon, 1927, Photograph, B 10062

Wakefield Street, south side, May 1927, St. Francis Xaviers Cathedral. Construction began in 1856. The Cathedral was further expanded to include a bell tower which was opened by Archbishop Spence in April 1926. The bell used in the tower is the Murphy Bell of 1867 and it is surrounded by thirteen other bells, seven of these date back to 1881 and were previously in St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney. When this photograph was taken in May 1927 the second stage of building had just been completed.