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Australia's Fair, Adelaide Jubille Exhibition Building [B 63833] • Photograph

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Summary

EXHIBITION BUILDING: Crowds attending the opening of the Australia's Fair held in the Adelaide Jubilee Exhibition Building, 15 August 1893; Governor Kintore, who is standing facing the camera at the centre of an official party in front of a major display, opened the event. The fair was held to raise two thousand pounds for the erection of workshops for the Industrial School for the Blind in North Adelaide. A report of the event in the South Australian Chronicle, 19 August 1893, noted that 'The whole of the platform has been converted into an English winter landscape'.

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Physical description

photograph; 22.5 cm x 16.5 cm

Dates / Publication details

1893

Collection

Part of Exhibition Building Collection

Subject

Kintore, Algernon Hawkins Thomond Keith-Falconer, Earl of, 1852-1930
Industrial School for the Blind (North Adelaide, S.A.)
Exhibitions -- South Australia -- Adelaide
Fairs -- South Australia -- Adelaide
Governors -- South Australia

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General notes

Copied from a glass plate negative.

Digitisation information

Date

16/11/2009

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,471 x 2,653 pixels (9.2 MP)

Size

27.66 MB

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