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First Tarpeena Hotel
First Tarpeena Hotel. Tarpeena is located between Penola and Mount Gambier and was surveyed in 1860. The Aboriginal meaning of the name is tart pena = red gum tree. The first Tarpeena Hotel existed from 1863 to 1890 and was later demolished. The photograph shows a wooden planked one storey building with a partial cellar at one end
Old Tarpeena Hotel
Old Tarpeena Hotel. Tarpeena is located between Penola and Mount Gambier and was surveyed in 1860. The Aboriginal meaning of the name is tart pena = red gum tree. The first Tarpeena Hotel existed from 1863 to 1890 and was later demolished. The photograph shows a wooden planked one storey building with two dogs entering the doorway. The building looks in a state of disrepair
Prescott's Farm, Toorak Gdns
Prescott's Farm established in 1840 at Toorak Gardens. William Prescot, his wife Christian Elve and their six children arrived in Adelaide in 1838. He leased land from the South Australia Company to establish his farm. One of his daughters (Eliza Christiana 1800-1876) lived on the farm for the whole of her life in Australia. The farm produced wheat and dairy goods amid the eucalypt savannah and acacia scrub. This view was taken from the corner of Kensington Road and Prescott Terrace, looking across Toorak towards Glen Osmond.The scene depicts stooks of wheat harvested in the fields and in the background are the Adelaide Hills unimpeded by houses or roads. The name Toorak comes from the Aboriginal word for teatree springs.
Rock Drawings, Victoria River
Rock drawings, Victoria River.
Darke Memorial
Plaque on the memorial to John Charles Darke at Koongawa Rock where he was speared by Aborigines.
Warrina
Warrina was surveyed in 1890 and was a railway station on the Marree to Alice Springs line, 97 kilometres north north west of William Creek and 633 miles north of Adelaide. There was an Aboriginal camp nearby. This photograph shows two men on camels, their cameleers and others outside a tent in a flat landscape
Main Street, Wirrabara
Main Street, Wirrabara showing among others the FD Mannings Furniture House. Next door stands the premises of McKavanagh. Wirrabarra, named after the Aboriginal word for gum forest with running water, is located in the Mid North of South Australia. It was established in the 1850's and boasts pastoral leases for Merino sheep, copper mine and the first government forest. 20,000 seeds of walnut, chestnut, ash, oak, sycamores, pines, willows and bamboo were planted. Wirrabarra was surveyed in 1874 and later the railway from Laura to Wilmington passed through.
Mr George Bates
George Bates, pioneer resident of Kangaroo Island was a sealer and trader. He was born in Cheapside, London. He reached Hobart Town as crew on the 'Commodore Hayes". He later joined a sealing vessel and absconded when they were moored off Kangaroo Island. Aboriginal women from the mainland showed the renegrades seal, kangaroo and wallaby skinning mthods so they were able to trade with passing ships. He told passing captains of his glimpses of Lake Alexandrina thus contributing to the growing interest of settlement in South Australia. He was honoured as an "Old Colonist" and later died in the Destitute Asylum in 1895.
Henry Yorke Lyell Brown
[General description] Upper body portrait of Henry Yorke Lyell Brown, Government Geologist. He has short hair and a moustache and wears a high collar with spotted cravat. As Geologist of South Australia from 1882 to 1909, Brown made many survey trips throughout South Australia, and into the Northern Territory often travelling alone or with an 'Afghan' or Australian Aboriginal man as guide.
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
[General description] Head and shoulders portrait in seven eights view of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, G.C.M.G.,Third Baronet, who was Governor of South Australia from 29 October 1895 until 29 March 1899. He has grey hair and beard and is wearing the star and badge of the K.C.M.G. (Knight Commander of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George) which he was awarded in 1895. Later, in 1899, he was promoted to a Knight Grand Cross (G.C.M.G.). He was known as a courteous, commonsense Governor, who would visit gaols and other institutions and talk to the inmates. He was also interested in learning about the customs of Aboriginal people and promoting a better understanding of them by European settlers.
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, philanthropist and Governor of South Australia from 1895. He was known for his unassuming friendliness and gentle courtesy. Unlike his predecessors he regularly visited and chatted with prisoners, destitute refugees, and members of the Home for Incurables. He travelled to meet with Aboriginals and tried to educate white people about their land tenure and other customs. With his family he opened up government House to people of all walks of life.
Robert Cock
Robert Cock, after whom Cock's Creek was named (now Cox's Creek). He was an early European explorer of the Adelaide region of South Australia. Robert was born in Fife, Scotland and arrived in South Australia on the "Buffalo" in 1836. He set up a cottage with a thatched roof for himself, his wife and six children. He was deeply disturbed to find that the local authorities had no intention of honouring the commitment made in Britain to set aside one fifth of all land to provide a fund for Aboriginal welfare.
George De Hane
George De Hane, was the publisher of Port Lincoln's first newspaper, "the Port Lincoln Herald", and was one of the town's original settlers [duplicate copy at PRG 458/1/2/20]. George De Hane was an early Adelaide printing, publishing, bookselling and stationery firm. He set up business in Stephens Place, Adelaide in the late 1830s. After publishing the short-lived Port Lincoln Herald he returned to Adelaide in 1841 to work from a mud hut in Morphett Street. Later he moved to King William Street and after his death in 1864 he was succeeded by Samuel Edward Roberts. His works included "Adelaide Magazine", "Adelaide Independent and Cabinet of Amusement", "Dehane's Almanac". "Adelaide Observer" and three books on the Aborigines of South Australia
Edward John Eyre
Edward John Eyre (1815-1901), together with his Aboriginal colleague Wylie, was the first explorer to cross southern Australia from east to west, travelling across the Nullarbor Plain from Adelaide to Albany.
Edward John Eyre
Edward John Eyre, land explorer, Colonial Administrator and controversial Governor of Jamaica. He sold 400 lambs and later used the profit to fund his expedition to the interior of South Australia and west beyond Ceduna. In 1840-1841, with his Aboriginal companion, he became the first European to traverse the land across the Nullabor Plain following the Great Australian Bight.
Mathew Blagden Hale
[General description] Mathew Blagden Hale in his later years. He was an Anglican Bishop and educator of Aboriginals in Western Australia, Queensland and South Australia. He was born in Gloucester in 1811 and died in Bristol in 1895. He was survived by his second wife Sabina, five sons and three daughters. [On back of photograph] no information.
Mathew Blagden Hale
[General description] Head and shoulders portrait of Mathew Blagden Hale, Anglican Bishop, in three quarter view. He wears a dark jacket and shirtfront and clerical collar. He has grey hair and beard worn in the chin strap style and wears metal framed spectacles. He was a social and educational pioneer, noted for his work with Aboriginal people.
Frank Hann with Talbot
Explorer Frank Hann (seated) with his companion Talbot.
Lieut.Col. T. W. Higgins
Lieut Col. Thomas Walker Higgins (1840-1899) (Goolwa Volunteer Cavalry). He is wearing a Gambaldi jacket. In 1861 he became a volunteer in the Goolwa and Port Elliot Rifle Brigade. Before this he was a clerk at the Adelaide Post Office. He bought land at Currency Creek and named the property Higginsbrook after the family home in Ireland. He had cattle, sheep and cereal crops. He was respected by the local Aboriginals. He became Lieut. Colonel in 1867 and was given the rank of Colonel in Charge of the Voluntary Cavalry. He is buried in the Currency Creek Cemetery.
Reginald Charles (Rex) Ingamells
Reginald Charles (Rex) Ingamells, South Australian poet, was born at Orroroo January 19, 1913, son of Rev. EM Ingamells. He was educated at various public schools and later at Prince Alfred College. He obtained his Batchelor of Arts degree in 1934 and won the Bundey Prize for English verse in 1935. He wrote 'Gum Tops' published in Adelaide in 1935. He was fascinated by Aboriginal culture and founded the Jindyworobak Movement. He died an untimely death in a car crash near Dimboola in 1955.
Janet Johnston
Ambrotype portrait of Janet Johnston, daughter of Elizabeth Denovan Johnston, nee Gowan, and Reverend Kerr Johnston. She married Daniel Matthews (1837-1902) of Echuca in 1872. They were involved in missions to Aboriginal people in New South Wales and South Australia. Janet Matthews retired to Adelaide.
George Ruthven Le Hunte
[General description] Head and shoulders portrait of Sir George Ruthven Le Hunte, seen in three quarter profile and showing a robust man in middle age, with greying hair and moustache. He is wearing a heavily embroidered dress uniform displaying the badge of the order of the Knight Commander of Saint Michael and Saint George (K.C.M.G.). He was governor of South Australia from July 1903-December 1908. A popular governor, he was particularly interested in the welfare of the Aborigines and of young people, earning the title 'children's governor'.
George Ruthven Le Hunte
Sir George Ruthven Le Hunte was born in Ireland and became Governor of South Australia from July 1903 - December 1908. He is remembered for such qualities as kindliness, affection for youth affairs, welfare of Aboriginals and a genial nature.
Richard Thelwell Maurice
Richard Thelwell Maurice was an explorer from South Australia who made 8 or 9 expeditions between 1897 and 1898 to the Nullarbor Plain and Great Victorian Desert noting the position of Aboriginal water holes. Later he explored the Rawlinson Ranges in Western Australia, Wyndham in the north west of Australia. He established himself as a kangaroo hunter on the Nullarbor Plain
Matthew Moorhouse
Matthew Moorhouse [duplicate copy at PRG 458/1/2/11]. He was an English pioneer in Australia and Protector of Aborigines, pastoralist and politician in South Australia. He published "A Vocabulary and Outline of the Grammatical Structure of the Murray River Language" in 1846. He returned to England to promote migration. He was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly for the City of Adelaide. He became a pastoralist and lived on his station "Bartagunyah" near Melrose.
Thomas Moseley
[General description] Five Port Lincoln district pastoralists pose in a group photograph. They are all bearded and wear their jackets buttoned at the top in the style of the day. Seated on the floor in the centre is a small Aboriginal boy, Toby.[On back of photograph] 'Back row: Thomas Moseley, J.D.Bruce / Front row: William Linklater, J.C. Hamp, Heriot and Toby / Port Lincoln district pastoralists / c. 1870'.
Gladys Reynell
Gladys Reynell, pioneer Australian potter who contributed to the concept of Studio Pottery, her pottery being notable for amalgamating Modernism with Aboriginal art.
John Henry Reid
Portrait of John Henry Reid, nephew of Rev. Richardson Reid.
James Lawrence Stapleton
Daguerreotype portrait of James Lawrence Stapleton.
James Lawrence Stapleton
An occupational ambrotype portrait of James Lawrence Oliver Stapleton sitting with his telegraph device. Tinting is visible in the pink of the cheeks, and golden buttons, pocket watch chain, and telegraph device. In an embossed leather case with a gilt metal frame. James Stapleton was the telegraph Station Master and Mount Gambier, and Station Master at Barrow Creek Telegraph Station on 22 February 1874 when it was attacked by local Aborigines. Stapleton died of his wounds the following day.