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Horse-buyers at Kapunda, South Australia

c. 1918, Photograph, PRG 280/1/12/234

Two men including Juwan Singh, a noted horse-buyer from Blanchetown on the right, at the Kapunda yards, South Australia.

General William Birdwood at Kapunda

1920, Photograph, PRG 280/1/19/228

A crowd of spectators greeting General William Birdwood after his arrival at Kapunda during his tour of South Australia.

Crowds greeting General Birdwood at Kapunda

1920, Photograph, PRG 280/1/19/244

Crowds greeting General Birdwood after his arrival at Kapunda during his tour of South Australia.

General Birdwood at Kapunda

1920, Photograph, PRG 280/1/19/444

A crowd of spectators greeting General William Birdwood after his arrival at Kapunda during his tour of South Australia in 1920.

Australia Day parade at Kapunda

c. 1919, Photograph, PRG 280/1/32/7

An Australia Day parade of vehicles, floats, and children proceeding along Main Street, Kapunda, South Australia.

A welcoming committee, Kapunda

c. 1915, Photograph, PRG 280/1/8/63

A welcoming committee waits with a parade of soldiers, the town bank, and local residents for the arrival of General Sir Ian Hamilton on a visit to Kapunda, possibly on a recruiting drive.

Sir Day Bosanquet and his party during a visit to Kapunda

c. 1912, Photograph, PRG 280/1/3/388

The Governor of South Australia, Sir Day Bosanquet and his party during a visit to Kapunda; a mounted army escort is nearby.

[Tracing showing sections in Hundreds of Gawler, Gilbert, Belvidere, Moorooroo, Kapunda, Light, Yatala and Para Wirra(parts)] [cartographic material]

n.d., Archival map/chart, BRG 42/119/69

Tracing of map showing sections in different Hundreds. See contents field for details. Ink and watercolour on paper, ink and pencil notation. No scale given. Numbered 17) at top left hand corner. Stamped 12.2.[18]55. (Original on same sheet as maps 64-67 ).

Anlaby homestead

c. 1872, Photograph, B 72802

Photograph of buildings at the rear of Anlaby homestead near Kapunda, South Australia. Several people are on the back verandah and another person holds a horse outside the fence.

Men and child in the garden at Anlaby homestead

c. 1872, Photograph, B 72800

Four men and a boy in the garden of Anlaby homestead near Kapunda, South Australia. The garden leads down to a flat open paddock with many gum trees. The older man sitting on the chair may be the explorer John McKinlay, who lived at Oaklands with his wife Jane Pile and her family. He died in December 1872.

Views of South Australia

Duffield, K. C., 1969, Photograph, PRG 1350/4/22

Christ Church, Kapunda - services first held in 1869.

John Martin's window display featuring Kapunda Mining

1966, Photograph, BRG 121/1/1136

Colour photograph of one of John Martin's shop windows featuring a display of historic items, such as drawings and equipment, about mining in Kapunda. The display is part of the store's centenary, 1866 - 1966, with the theme "100 years growing with South Australia".

James Crase

c. 1870, Photograph, B 76601

Carte-de-visite portrait of James Crase, proprietor of the North Kapunda Hotel from 1850-1860, and 1864-1886. He is wearing a suit with a vest, bowtie, and a lounge jacket with braiding around the edges. Caption on back: 'Mr James Crase, the proprietor of the Hotel where the exhibition will be'.

Honour rolls

Independent Order of Rechabites. Friendly Society. South Australian District, No.81, 1865, Realia, SRG 164/37

Honour Rolls (covered wooden rolls housing framed certificates of inception, with doors, mostly folding, with inscriptions of names of Past Chief Rulers, originally intended to be hung on wall) for Victoria No. 1 (City of Adelaide) Female branch, Zion Tent No. 11 (Brighton), Lady Kintore Tent No. 20 (Moonta Mines) Female branch, Love and Unity Tent No. 18 (Moonta Mines), Princess Irene Tent No. 17 (Kapunda), Tent No. 54 True Blue & Lady Tennyson, Salem Tent No. 8 (Kapunda), Star of Hope Tent No. 8 (Juvenile: Kapunda), Southern Star Tent No. 5 (Adelaide), Hope of Prospect Tent No. 71 & Harbour of Refuge Tent (both Prospect), Go Ahead Tent No. 34 (Torrensville), Ark of Safety Tent No. 15 (Clare), True Blue Tent No. 54 (Goodwood) and two unknown groups. See series list attached to Summary Record, and also attached to this series, for full details of the rolls.

Family album of the Hursthouse Family

Hursthouse, John Wilson, c. 1925, Photograph, B 71737/1-167

The album contains photographs relating primarily to the life of John Wilson Hursthouse (1913-1945) including family camping holidays to the South-East, Yorke Peninsula and Eyre Peninsula between 1925-1930; schooling at Queen's School, North Adelaide, and Roseworthy Agricultural College, Boy Scouts, Army training at Kapunda Military camp, shearing at Middle Camp near Cowell and Elbow Hill (1934-1936); wheat harvesting at Gum Park, Yongala 1937; and training as an RAAF pilot at Parafield Aerodrome. The album includes a family portrait of John (Jack) with his parents Calvert Fearon Hursthouse and Lilian Ethel (nee Preshaw), and his siblings Helen Mary and Harold Richmond (Dick). Another photograph includes his son David as a child.

Anlaby Homestead

c. 1860, Photograph, B 5582

[General description] This is the homestead at Anlaby Station, Kapunda, taken from some way off to fit in the house and outbuildings. Set among gum trees on the left is the main house with the family gathered on the verandah for the photographer (hard to make out because of the distance). Other station buildings are nearby. Anlaby was settled in 1839 by John Finniss and acquired by Frederick Dutton in 1841.

Anlaby Homestead

c. 1860, Photograph, B 5583

[General description] A lone gumtree stands in the foreground of this view of the 'Manor House', the main homestead building at Anlaby Station, Kapunda. The family have gathered on the verandah for the photographer.

Anlaby Homestead

c. 1860, Photograph, B 9949

Anlaby homestead in the 1860s. Frederick Hansborough Dutton took the lease on the property near Kapunda and named it Anlaby for a village in Yorkshire, the village of his sister's husband. Analby Station is the oldest merino stud in Australia and plays an important part in South Australia's history. The Duttons ran it as a grand English estate employing seventy staff. The property contained forty large outbuildings including a manor house, huge shearing shed and impressive stable block.

Anlaby

c. 1880, Photograph, B 14910

One of the original huts at Anlaby built in 1838. The gentleman lying on the ground in the pith helmet is possibly Alexander Buchanan. Two other men are sitting on a log nearby with their dog. The hut walls are composed of wattle and daub and are topped with a thatched roof