Aboriginal • Find • State Library of South Australia

Jimmy Spender

c. 1870, Photograph, B 30904

GENERAL: South Australian Aboriginal: Jimmy Spender.

Billy Rowly

c. 1870, Photograph, B 30905

GENERAL: South Australian Aborigine: Billy Rowly originally from Anna Creek.

Billy Rowly

c. 1870, Photograph, B 30906

South Australian Aboriginal: Billy Rowly.

Address of Welcome

1895, Photograph, B 32856

Address of welcome to Governor Buxton from the Aborigines of South Australia.

Salvation Army members

Duryea, Townsend, c. 1890, Photograph, B 34315

Ephraim Tripp (left), with other Aborigines and members of the Salvation Army. The man at the back left is believed to be George Pantonie.

"Taken by Surprise"

c. 1890, Photograph, B 34388

Aborigines staging a 'surprise' attack on a camel-train.

"Fanny" of Port Lincoln

c. 1912, Photograph, B 38271

Photograph of "Fanny", alleged to be the last of the Port Lincoln Aboriginal tribe.

Coppertop

c. 1870, Photograph, B 41812

An Aboriginal called Coppertop.

Mounted policeman

Gill, Samuel Thomas, 1846, Photograph, B 43329

Mounted policeman with Aboriginal prisoners who stole sheep.

Jimmy James

c. 1943, Photograph, B 44029

GENERAL: Jimmy James the Aboriginal tracker at Kingston. His son in law, also Jimmy James, was also well-known tracker.

Jack, Mounted Constable Willshire, Corporal Chickylia, Ardahkee, Undudna, Mounted Constable Wurmbrand and Undiah. Billy lies in the middle

Taylor, James, c. 1888, Photograph, B 44610

Aboriginal Policemen, Jack, Corporal Chickylia, Ardahkee, Undudna, Undiah and Billy with Mounted Constables William Henry Willshire (second from left) and Erwein Wurmbrand (second from right), in a staged studio setting. A reversed view of this photograph can be seen at PRG 280/1/2/119, and a similar view with slightly different posing can be seen at B 13496 (also reversed).

Railway Construction

1917, Photograph, B 44790

GENERAL: Construction of the East-West Railway - Aborigines.

Railway Construction

1917, Photograph, B 44791

Construction of the East-West Railway - Aboriginal - probably a cook at the Camp Site.

Railway Construction

1917, Photograph, B 44792

Construction of the East-West Railway - Aboriginal women with children.

Railway Construction

1917, Photograph, B 44793

GENERAL: Construction of the East-West Railway - Aboriginal women with children.

Child's Birthday Party

1940, Photograph, B 48785

Children at a Birthday party with an Aboriginal nursemaid.

Salvation Army

c. 1905, Photograph, B 50672

GENERAL: Salvation Army women with Aboriginal people.

Aboriginal Holdings Officer

State Library of South Australia, 1989, Photograph, B 50249

Aboriginal Holdings Officer Bruce Hammond working on the Mortlock Library Aboriginal Holdings compilation.

Daisy Bates

c. 1949, Photograph, SRG 98/7/40

Daisy Bates with Aboriginal children at Ooldea. Written on the back of photo: 'Mrs Bates with the children. In this field she excelled. Her work was largely centred around the children'.