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Mid North and Flinders Ranges
Records of the Reverend Arthur M. Trengove comprising lantern slides and glass plate negatives. Contents include the Flinders Ranges and Alligator Gorge area, Horrock's Pass, agricultural and picturesque bush scenery captured while touring, both with horse and cart and later with motor vehicles. Trengrove probably used some of these slides during lectures or presentations, or during church services. It is likely he took a selection of slides with him on his tours, and made presentations to a wide variety of audiences. See CONTENTS for more information and details of the images.
Photograph album of the Kay family
Family photograph album, possibly belonging to Mrs Annie Herford (nee MacNee). Written on inside cover: 'Mrs Hurford, from her loving daughter and son. X May 89'.
Family photograph album relating to the Kay family
Photograph album belonging to the Kay family featuring carte de visite portraits of relatives of the Kay family. In the back cover of the album is a miniature album, insterted inside the cover, which folds open to reveal more carte de visite photographs (see numbers 43- 48). Also includes loose photographs (49-51), and In memoriam cards for Annie Kay, wife of Robert Kay (died 1886), a cross stitch bookmark with 'Sunday' stitched across the centre, and a newspaper cutting about the unveiling of a portrait of Catherine Helen Spence at the State Library of South Australia.
Photograph album of the Hubbe family and extended family
Photograph album of the Hubbe family and their extended family. See below for details.
A group of women university students
A group of women students at the University of Adelaide. Left to right (back row): Annie Treby, Ellie Benham, Dora Muecke, Ada Lambert, Stella Howchin, Gertrude Pitt. Front row, seated: Laura Fowler, Connie Benham, [unknown], Susan Solomon, Florence Haycroft, Violet Plummer. A researcher believes the woman attributed as Laura Fowler is in fact Mary Maude Kirby (daughter of Revd. J.C. Kirby, and later married to John Nicholas).
A group of women university graduates
A group of women university graduates at the University of Adelaide. Back row: Florence Haycroft, Mary Maude Kirby B.Sc., Laura Fowler. Front row: Susan S. Solomon, [unknown], Annie Treby.
A group of university medical students and staff
A group of medical students and teaching staff at the University of Adelaide. Back row, first on right: Pierre Marceau, assistant to Professor Watson. Front row: Professor A,. Watson, Professor Edward Stirling, Laura Fowler, Professor Tate, [unknown], Mr Fuller. (Laura Fowler was the first woman graduate in medicine at the university.).
Photographs
Photographs of, and collected by, the Grant family. Included are images of the English, Scottish and Australian Bank ('E.S.& A. Bank') and staff, sporting teams, family portraits, recreation activities, and town scenes. Additional photographs include school photographs, sporting teams and Kapuna Police Station. A list of the photographs is also located at the Library Reference Desk.
Mid North and Flinders Ranges
Records of the Reverend Arthur M. Trengove comprising lantern slides and glass plate negatives. Contents include the Flinders Ranges and Alligator Gorge area, Horrock's Pass, agricultural and picturesque bush scenery captured while touring, both with horse and cart and later with motor vehicles. Trengrove probably used some of these slides during lectures or presentations, or during church services. It is likely he took a selection of slides with him on his tours, and made presentations to a wide variety of audiences. See CONTENTS for more information and details of the images. Also comprising a glass plate negative; 270A. agricultural scene, making hay bails.
Photograph album relating to the visit of Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Naval officers to South Australia in 1867, and the visit of H.M.S. 'Falcon' in April 1865
Small photograph album with brass clasp with carte de visite photographs of Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and members of his party who visited South Australia in 1867 on the 'Galatea', made up by Caroline Louisa Turton, daughter of Sir Dominick Daly. Inside the album is written in pencil: 'Mother's book of Naval friends when in S. Australia, officers of the Galatea &c - Prince Alfred, Queen Victoria's son who visited Adelaide in HMS 'Galatea' in Nov 1867'. A few photographs relate to the visit of H.M.S. 'Falcon' and H.M.S. 'Curacoa in 1865. Some are photographs of wives of officers, and a few are of Turton relatives in the Royal Navy. Some photographs had been placed between pairs of photographs and have been numbered with an 'A' and now housed separately. See MORE INFO 'Contents' for details.
Lawson sisters
A black and white copy of a photograph of three sisters of the Lawson family. From left; Christiana Petronelle Ernestina Lawson (who later married and became Swindon), Emma Clara Wallace, and Laura Fuller. Absent are Bertha, Laura, Emma, Christi, Hilda and Harold.
Papers of Leslie Cockshell relating to his World War I service
Papers and photographs relating to the war service of No. 63945 Private Leslie William Cockshell, including camp competition contestants, postcard, and photographs, including photographs of two of Les' friends from the Army Medical Corps, Maynard Cole and Fred Pritchard. See below for details.
Diary of Private Maynard Johnson Cole, No. 1, 1918
Diary of Private Maynard Johnson Cole, 1918. 'Australian Diary 1918 No. 32'. Includes addresses for friends and family. Entries begin on Tuesday 1 January 1918 and describe moving to barracks and training camp at Mitcham, undertaking training, travelling to Petersburg and Laura during leave. Entries end in June 2018, with remaining pages containing addresses and names of family, friends and comrades. Original is a small volume, 12.8 x 6.5 x 1 cm.
Beetaloo Reservoir
[General description] Beetaloo Reservoir, showing its location in hilly, lightly timbered country. The spillway is seen in the foreground. This dam is located near the mid-north town of Laura and was South Australia's first regional reservoir. It was built between 1885-1890 to supply water to the mining and smelting works in the "Copper Triangle". Nowadays its water is now used locally for agriculture and grazing purposes. [On back of photograph] 'Beetaloo reservoir / Before 1927'.
Railway, Booleroo Centre
Opening of Laura to Booleroo Centre railway by H. E. Sir Day Bosanquet 27 April 1910.
Railway, Booleroo Centre
Arrival of free ride passengers from Laura & Wirrabara.
Gladstone
View of Gladstone township showing the James and Company Grocery and Drapery Store. Next door stands another grocery store. Gladstone was laid out by Matthew Moorhouse in 1872 and named after English Prime Minister William Gladstone. The railway connected Gladstone to Laura in 1884
Floods, Jamestown
Flood scene at Laura, Jamestown. The Belalie Creek running through Jamestown flooded in 1941 and two bridges were swept away. The town centre was inundated by a metre of water.
Floods, Jamestown
Floods at Laura, Jamestown showing a broken bridge on the Jamestown Road. The railings were washed away and the piers undermined by the raging flood water. Reeds and other debris can be seen hanging from the bridge in the aftermath of the deluge.
Railway line opening
Special train on arrival at Booleroo Centre on 27 April 1910 to mark the opening of the railway line from Laura by His Excellency Governor Bosanquet. Photograph appeared in both The Chronicle and The Critic.
Pioneer's Pug House, Moculta
Pug house on Laura Rosenzweig's property.
Railways Refreshment Rooms Staff, Murray Bridge
Railways Refreshment Rooms Staff, Murray Bridge : Mrs Provis, Emma Paech, Laura Pomery; Middle: Cook's Offsider, Mary Paech, ?, Mrs. Provis, ?, ?, Cook's Offsider, Nellie Hall: Provis children in front. (Original date of 1903 has been amended to 1906 based on information provided by researcher.).
"Returning from the Bluff"
"Returning from the Bluff" : original caption. Left to Right: Daisy, Eva, Mrs Kesterton and Laura at Victor Harbor, Christmas 1916.
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.
Wirrabara
Men making sleepers for Laura Booleroo Railway at Wirrabara.
Hambidge Family, Woodville
Members of the Hambidge family at their Woodville home. From left : Grace Henrietta (MacFarlane) Wyly (wife of photographer), Edith Laura (her daughter),unknown, Gwendoline (Molly) Hambidge, Elizabeth (Wyly) Hambidge (sister of photographer), Frank Hambidge, Madeline (Madge) Hambidge, and Elizabeth (Betty) Hambidge.
Woolundunga
Woolundunga Springs, the source of Port Augusta's water supply. A family of women and children are in the middle ground, possibly that of Octavius W. Wastell. They could be: Marie Louisa, Amelia Caroline, Mrs Laura Wastell (his wife), Francis Stoddart Wastell, Annie Blanche and Rosa Stoddart Wastell. Octavius Wastell was 2nd Superintendent of Waterworks at Woolundunga. A boardwalk pathway can be seen at left of view.
Franklin family
Franklin Family, Ruby, Effie, Will, Art, Jim, Elsie, and wife Clara, celebrating Mr [William] Franklin's 50th birthday.
Henry Brittain, printer
Henry Brittain, the only son of George and Priscilla Brittain, was born at Leamington, England 4 December 1843. Having contracted consumption at a young age Henry married Elizabeth Ludford on July 20 1870 before migrating to South Australia where their three children Edith (1872), Laura Sophie (1874) and Henry Isaac (1875) were born. Henry and his family lived at Brompton, he working as a typesetter with 'The Register', before dying on November 16 1875.
Robert and Emma Morris and family
A photographic copy of what was probably an over-painted photographic portrait of members of the Morris family. Robert Morris and Emma Morris, nee Coombes, arrived in South Australia onboard the ship the 'Hesperides' in June 1876 with their three children Albert Edward, Walter Robert and Florence Ellen. Walter, Florence and their fourth child John, born 1877, died while the family were in South Australia. The family moved to New South Wales in about 1878. Daughter Mabel Martha was born in Bourke in 1879, son Percival in Cobar in 1881, and daughter Olive Maud Mary in Cobar in 1883. Percival died the same year. The portrait depicts, left to right, Olive, Robert, Albert, Mabel and Emma in about 1885. Another five children were born later. Most of the family, including Robert and Emma, relocated to Western Australia.