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Album of portraits of the Lovelock, Meyer and other families
Album containing portraits of Meyer and Lovelock family members. Kelly, Genery, Herbert, Polhill, Sanders, Clayton, Ramsay, Gerrard and other families are included. Some families appear to be from the Yankalilla area. It is not known who compiled the album. To view images, take the Browse Album link. The album provides examples of carte-de visite and cabinet portraiture of many Adelaide photographers of the 1870s to 1890s, as well as good examples of the clothing and dress fashion of the day. The photographers are noted in brackets after the caption, where they are known. Photograph 26 shows a person in military uniform with a distinctive pill box cap, possibly the uniform of the Mounted Volunteer Corps of the Volunteer Militia. The album has a hand sewn cream suede cover, with rudimentary embroidery done in an acorn and leaf pattern. Additional research was carried out by Anthony Laube, who believes the album probably belonged to Mrs Lovelock. His additional information is shown in square brackets.
Photograph album
Photograph album with embossed leather binding, of carte-de-visites, cabinet prints, tintypes and black and white prints (some tinted), of the Ford Family of Burra. The title page has 'Album' and the inscription in pencil, 'Mrs Ben Lock'. Photographers and photographic companies are noted in brackets, where known.
Photograph album of the Hubbe family and extended family
Photograph album of the Hubbe family and their extended family. See below for details.
Portrait photographs of immediate Simpson Family members
Portrait photographs of the descendants of Alfred Simpson (1808-1891)
Album of photographs relating to Kerr and Collins families
Album of 38 carte-de-visite and tintype photographs of the Kerr and Collins families. Some are named: 3. Mr E.J. Wivell, teacher of dancing & calisthenics; 28. Grandmother Collins; 31 & 33. John Thomas Collins, wife Margaret and sons Bruce, Walter, Percy and Thomas. (Some photographs taken in Melbourne.) Cover is ornate with metal decoration and brass clasp. The album has the inscription 'To Janet Kerr from her devoted friend William Sutherland as a Christmas Gift 25 December 1865'. The front page has 2 newspaper death notices, for Grace Kerr, daughter of Stair Kerr aged 64 years at Prospect (1917), and William Howard, husband of Eliza Howard, aged 68 years at 'Alsted Farm', Alma. The album bears the owner's name plate 'Mr J.T. Collins, Maitland'.
Photographs of the Steicke family
A collection of photographs of Steicke family members (1-34), together with some from friends and extended family (35 onwards ). Most were collected for actual/possible inclusion in the book 'Steickes in Australia since 1838 / [compiled by M.L. Steicke]. See 'items' for details of of individual photographs.
Views in South Australia : album
Album of views in and around Adelaide, including North Adelaide, Morialta, Waterfall Gully, Norton Summit. Photographs of several historic houses, Montefiore, Fairfield, Springbrook and Collingrove, cattle and prize winning sheep are included. Some photographs are attributable to photographers, Samuel White Sweet, Townsend Duryea and H. Davis. Some of the photographs are duplicated elsewhere in the Pictorial Collection.
Hawkes Family photograph album
Album of the Hawkes Family, possibly containing photographs of Hawkes, Stebbing and Whittington families, and English relatives and siblings of Henry Hawkes and Francis William Hawkes, who married Mary Jane Whittington. The donor, Clifford Henry Hawkes, born 1898, indicated that the album belonged to his grandfather, Henry Hawkes. The album includes a one page family tree of Clifford Hawkes, compiled by the State Library, photographs of the original album (which has not been retained), several in memoriam cards (photos 56-59), and two Children's League certificates, belonging to Clifford Hawkes and Harold Hawkes. Most photographs are un-captioned, and a small selection have been digitised. The album is an interesting source of examples of carte-de visite and cabinet print portrait photography, along with one tintype photograph, by studios in Adelaide in the nineteenth century. These studios include H. (Henry) Jones, King William Street, Adelaide, L'Amico Fritz, 62 Rundle Street, Adelaide, S. (Saul) Solomon, 51 Rundle Street, Adelaide, P.J. Marchant, Waymouth Street, Adelaide, Edward Farndell, 83 Hindley Street Adelaide, W. J. Lott, Paris Photographic Co., 164 Rundle Street, Spicer Adey, 83 Hindley Street Adelaide, San Francisco Photo Co., Glen Osmond Road, Parkside, Hammer & Co. Art Studio, 6 Rundle Street, Adelaide, W. H. Hammer, Artist Photographer, 172 Rundle Street, Adelaide, Captain Sweet Studio, Flinders Street, Adelaide, T. (Townsend) Duryea, 66 & 68 King William Street, Adelaide, Thomas Adcock, Adelaide, James R. Dobson & Co. Photo Artists, Temple of Light, 44 Rundle Street, Adelaide, G. H. Knight, portrait and landscape photographers, and Melbourne Photographic Co., 16, 18 & 20 Rundle Street, Adelaide. The album shows the styles of clothing worn by babies, children and adults in the nineteenth century.
Photographs of the Bonnin family
Photographs of the Bonnin family; see 'contents' for details of items.
Photographs of Presbyterian buildings, activities and people.
Collection of photographs of Presbyterian Church buildings activities and people.
Photograph album of James Ramsay McColl
Studio portraits relating to the McColl Family, including examples of the work of a number of Adelaide and Melbourne photographic studios. The photographer is noted in brackets where this is known. The photographs show elegant dress styles and hair styles for men, women and children in the late nineteenth century in Adelaide and Melbourne, as well as Scotland.
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Lindon family photos
Photos collected by LCE Lindon over the years. Numbers 1-18 were identified by LCEL as 'very precious ... must not be destroyed'. They feature his wife and her grandmother, his siblings, two of his time at Geelong Grammar School, war related photographs, extended family, and his wife and children. The other items (23-34) cover similar ground. See 'NOTE' for details of items.
Photographs and papers of Kathleen Alice Finniss
60 photographs of Kathleen Alice Finniss and her family including her father John Henry Suffield Finniss, mother Alice Evelyn Finniss, brothers Harold Court Finniss, Leslie Howard Finniss and George Hassard Finniss. The photographs are predominantly created by Hammer and Co. portraiture studio, ranging in date from approximately 1883-1915. Papers include one pamphlet entitled "When Adelaide was Very Young: Trials and Hardships of the Pioneers.", written by George Morphett and published by the Pioneer's Society of South Australia circa 1950, at The Advertiser Printing Office, Adelaide, South Australia (which became The Griffin Press, circa 1954), and a newspaper obituary article for William Charles Maxwell Finniss 1842-1919, one of the 8 children of Boyle Travers Finniss.
Nurses from Wakefield Street Hospital
GENERAL: Group of nurses from the Wakefield Street Hospital, possibly taken at their graduation.
ABC studio Wayville
WAYVILLE: Control booth of the ABC studio at Wayville.
ABC studio Wayville
WAYVILLE: Announcer's desk in the ABC studio at Wayville. The control booth is in the background.
Institute, Athelstone
Institute, Athelstone.
Mine, Blinman
Blinman Mine October 9 1920. The ore from Beltana was at one time also smelted at Blinman: this mine was finally abandoned.
Dam, Bridgewater
Dam on Cox's Creek, Bridgewater, providing water for Dunn's Mill water wheel. Cox Creek was named after explorer Robert Cock who explored this area in 1837. The town was originally called Cox Creek but the name changed later to Bridgewater when the adjacent flour mill was built by John Dunn
Dunn's Mill, Bridgewater
Dunn's mill, Bridgewater. Robert Cock who explored this area in 1837. The town was originally called Cox Creek but the name changed later to Bridgewater when the adjacent flour mill was built by John Dunn. This photograph shows stacks of grain sacks ready to be ground at the mill. The large water wheel can be seen at the side of the mill
Abraham Shannon
Abraham Shannon of Moculta.
William Shannon, jnr
William Shannon, junior of Moculta.
Hughes' Pumping House
Hughes' Pumping Engine House at Moonta Mines - engine was made by Harvey and Company of Hayle, Cornwall, 1863. Erected about that date and worked continuously to November 1923. Drained the whole of underground workings on the main line of Elders and Elders West Lodes. Diameter of steam cylinder 60 inches. This classic Cornish engine house was constructed alongside Hughes Shaft by John Beaglehole between late 1863 and early 1865. It was named after Walter Watson Hughes, the founder of the Moonta Mining Company.
Bower's Engine House
Bower's winding engine house. Was used for hauling from Greens and Gergussons shafts. Prince Edward and George (King GeorgeV) were taken underground at Greens shaft at Moonta. The driver of the engine on that occasion was Thomas Trezise c. 1881. The princes aged 17 and 15 were training as midshipmen on HMS Bacchante which arrived in Albany. They crossed to South Australia on a passenger vessel. Part of their reply to the welcome speech included the following "Sons of the Duke of Cornwall, who has bade us say how much he regrets not yet himself to have visited your colony, we rejoiced at Moonta to find ourselves in the midst of so many miners and true hearted Cornishmen".
Boiler explosion at Moonta
Result of boiler explosion at Beddomes engine house, Moonta Mines. The shell of the boiler was carried a considerable distance before landing on a Miner's Cottage. A man named Jose was killed at the Moonta Mines after he was lighting the boilers connected to the Beddomes engine and forgot to turn the throttle valve on No. 1 boiler.
Richman's Engine House
Richman's Engine House and Ore Concentrating plant. Stone building was completed in 1870. Length of stone building 42 feet, height 46 feet. The enginehouse was built between 1867 and 1869 using stone from Moonta Beach. It was used for crushing and concentrating ore from nearby shafts.
Machine Shops, Moonta Mines
Machine Shops at the Mines, employed 300 hands at peak period. By 1875 Moonta was the second largest town in South Australia and the largest copper region in the British Empire. Moonta Mines area had a population of 5,000 residents.
Moonta Mines
Moonta Mines : from left Lloyd's Shaft with horse whim; Bowers Winding Engine House; Green's Shaft; Hancock's Pumping Engine House and Contrating Plant; Fergusson's Shaft. Foreground are tobacco trees .King George 5th descended Green's Shaft 1881.
"Glen Para", Mt. Crawford
'Glen Para' residence built by David Erskine Randall (1819-1874) NNE of Mt. Crawford. The original was painted by his wife, Eliza Drake Randall, nee Wickes (1819-1902), probably in the 1860s. The single storey stone house built in 1851, was later purchased by William Rounsevell (1816-1874) who added a square tower to the house and called it Corryton Park. Notes on the back of photograph state: Erected by David Randall probably in the 1850's. Sections 1120, 670 and 1119 in Hundred of Barossa, marked the northern boundary of the property (a miles or two NNE of Mount Crawford) The house was built on land owned by C Flaxman who was a representative for George Angas Fife.