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Scenes of South Australia
Photographs in black & white and some sepia, of South Australian scenes and landscapes, ca.1890-1930. See CONTENTS for more information and details.
South Australian views
An album of South Australian views of Flinders Ranges, Kangaroo Island, Port Pirie, Port Augusta and one of Darwin. Photographers are not all known - although some are attributed elsewhere to Walter Howchin, and, according to a researcher, numbers 1-24 are by H.R. Perry. Many are duplicated elsewhere in the collection but these for the most part are better quality images. Captions are as they appear in the album.
Cudmore Park
Daws Road, Cudmore Park. (now part of Edwardstown and Melrose Park) The photograph shows a wide road flanked by eucalypts arching over the road. A two storey building can be seen at the end of the road
Cudmore Park
Daws Road, Cudmore Park (now Edwardstown and Melrose Park) A car has stopped at the side of the road and two young girls are chatting. The road is flanked by tall eucalypts. The foothills can be seen through the trees towards the east
Kadlunga at Mintaro
Kadlunga - home and property of Mr. J. L. Melrose at Mintaro.
Digging a Reservoir
Digging a reservoir on Robert Melrose's property, Rose Bank Station, at Mount Pleasant. The Contractor was David E. Greig who started sinking the reservoir on 17 March 1914 and completed it on 5 June.
A road in Mount Pleasant
[General description] The main street, Melrose Street, in Mount Pleasant, looking east. The two-storey building in the centre of this view is the Totness Inn. [On back of photograph] 'Reproduced in the "Observer", Nov. 27, 1926. / Mount Pleasant / 1926'.
Autumn at Uraidla
Watercolour on paper by George Whinnen, showing the Uraidla landscape, viewed from a hill. Signed on bottom left.
Willowie
Willowie, showing Angas' station, near Melrose. Mount Remarkable can be seen in the distance.
Melville Hotel, Yorketown
Advertisement for the Melville Hotel. Prop. H. A. Stockings. Silver and Company, Yorketown.
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.
Mrs Ruth Moorhouse
[General description] This is a head and shoulders portrait with the subject facing the camera. She is wearing a dress with a high lace collar and fringe detail on the bodice. [On back of photograph] 'Mrs Ruth Moorhouse wife of Dr Mathew Moorhouse. Early settler, Mount Gambier'. Mrs (Mary) Ruth Moorhouse, nee Kilner, died on 30 April 1877. She is buried (as is her husband Matthew) in Melrose Cemetery. [later information including death date as supplied by researcher].
Robert Stuckey
Robert Stuckey, grocer, land agent and mining director. He was a successful shopkeeper in Rundle Street and lived at Montefiore Hill. He was a director of several mines including Moonta, Burra, Wallaroo. In a partnership with Mr Peter Prankerd and John Bentham Neales set up the sub-division of New Melrose. Also had a part share in Mannum Station and worked on Umberatana which was 90 miles north of Blinman and east of Lake Eyre. He left a will containing 80,000 pounds.
Military Group at Cairo
Military group, probably a group of staff and graduates from the Imperial School of Instruction, Zeitoun, Egypt. E.M. Colston was Commandant of the School in 1916. Back row L-R: T.A. Fairpax, F.W. Lane, F.F. Campbell, J.C.C.H. Robinson, A.M. Garbett, J. Hutton, L. Dyson, J.P. Minton, J. Lothian, G.F.Walker, W.W. Worner, N.M. Little, H.S.B. Wichkam, F.W. Stiven. 1st row L-R: M.W.B. Deane, J. Bell-Irving, G.H. Allen, J.K. Hall, A.O. Rigg, C.N. Stockdale, I.M. Campbell, A.H.R. Jones, E.H. Parrott, J.N. Melrose, H.B. Sargeant, D. Wintersgill, J.L. McLean, C.H. Kaeppel, F. Wood. 2nd row L-R: J.C. Harrison, W.G. Greenwood, A.W. Boyd, C.E. Muscat, P. Pell-liderton, T.W. english, J.G. Geary, F.J. Childerhouse, H.L. Westlake, T.J. O'Brien, T.S. Taylor, B.C. Thomas, F.O. Robinson, R. Barnfather, H. Ibbotson, A.N. Stewart. 3rd row L-R: J.T. Hart, J.E. Johnson, C.M. Draper, W.J. Earle, L.I. Manning, C.E. King, A. Hughes, F.K. Bradford, J. Jardine, H.G. Forrest, R. Tambling, B.H. Arnott, J. Cosson, W.D. Marshall, C.W.N. Cain. Front row L-R: J.H. Chisholm, G.G. Gummerson, W.T. Joll, J.J. Fyffe, Lieut. D.W. Evatts (staff), Capt. J.S. Duncan (staff), Capt. P. Clarke (staff), Major F.L. Pardoe, DSO (staff), Lieut. Colonel E.M. Colston, MVO (Commandant), Capt. E.S. Gibbons, DSO (staff), Capt. P. Synnott (staff), Capt. Sandys-Wunsch (staff), Lieut. L.C. Brothers (staff), H.C. Horne, G.H.Stocking, R.B. Griffen, R.H. Brewis.
Distant view of Lake Victoria Station
GENERAL: Distant view of Lake Victoria Station, once occupied by a Mrs Melrose who was the first white woman in this area which is just outside South Australian territory discovered by Joseph Hawdon when opening up a stock route from N.S.W. to S.A. in 1838.
Elsie Florence Clarke and child outside their Willochra residence
WILLOCHRA: Mrs. Elsie Florence Clarke and her child, thought to be Philip Gregory Clarke, outside her soldier's settler's house.
Mount Remarkable
Mount Remarkable with houses in front.
Photographs of South Australia
This album was purchased by the State Library from an English bookseller in 1969/70, for 30 pounds sterling. It contains 75 sepia photographic prints, the vast majority of them taken in the mid-north region of South Australia, one third of them at or near Kapunda and Anlaby. Other places pictured are Blinman, Melrose and Mount Remarkable, Collingrove, Watervale, Yankalilla (one), Mount Gambier (two). There are a small number of unidentified landscapes and farms, and fourteen portraits of Aboriginal people, either singly or in groups, as well as two New Zealand [Maori] chiefs. There are about six photographic copies of drawings or paintings by Adam Gustavus Ball and possibly other artists. Several of the photos are known to be the work of one photographer, John Blood. On first pages of album: 'The requirements of art are three, an eye to see nature, a heart to feel nature, and a determination to follow after nature. Photographs collected by Francis Robert Davies, Chevalier of Malta, MRIN, MRDS. They come like shadows. 1871'.
Family photographs : Mt. Remarkable
Taken approx. 3 miles from Melrose (Adelaide side) - township hidden in valley at foot of mountain.
Coward Springs Hotel
A number of men, together with a woman and some children, pose for the camera on the verandah of Coward Springs Hotel. The hotel, operated by the Cheyne's, is advertising 'Jacka's Melrose ales on draught'.
Album of holiday photographs
Album of photographs taken by Ivy L. Watson of a holiday in the north and mid-north of South Australia. In some photographs (1, 6-7) the Bonds tour bus can be seen. See 'Contents' for details.
Holidays by paddle steamer and Bond's bus
Photographs of a holiday along the River Murray by paddle steamer in 1934 (photographs 1-16), and a 'Sunny Murray' holiday by Bonds tour bus in 1938 (photographs 17-36), taken by Ivy Watson. See 'Contents' for details.
Catherine Helen Spence
Portrait of Catherine Helen Spence. The caption under the image reads: ' Catherine Helen Spence, "The Grand Old Lady of Australia", Author, Philanthropist, Reformer, Lay Preacher, Born at Melrose, Scotland, 31st October 1825; arrived in South Australia 1839; died at Norwood 3rd April, 1910'.
Photograph album of South Australian and interstate scenes
Album of photographs of South Australian, New South Wales and Victorian scenes. A selection of the South Australian photographs, and one of SS 'Coramba', have been digitised. See 'Contents' in 'More info' for details. Do a NUMBER search on B 47622/1-148 to see them online.
P.J. Redway
Photograph of P.J. Redway. He is wearing the uniform of the Royal Australian Air Force. (A Phillip John Redway was born at Melrose in 1920 and enlisted in 1940. He was discharged in October 1945 with the rank of Corporal, his last posting with 94 Squadron).
Visitors arriving at Mount Remarkable in South Australia
Men and women arriving by horse drawn vehicles to the centre of a township near Mount Remarkable, possibly Melrose; purpose unknown.
Champion merino ram at an Adelaide Show
A champion merino ram from Melrose on display at an Adelaide Show held on Jubilee Oval.
Sir George Le Hunte attending a woodchopping contest in South Australia
Sir George Le Hunte, Governor of South Australia attending a woodchopping contest; a man on his right is identified as Mr.Melrose.
Farm sale at Mount Remarkable Station
A crowd attending a sale of farming implements at Mount Remarkable station near Melrose in the mid north of South Australia.
11th Field Ambulance Officers
11th Field Ambulance Officers at Mitcham Camp, South Australia, prior to embarkation. Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel M.H. Downey, front row centre, Captain J.A. Love, back row centre, and Captain J.G. Sweeney, front row 2nd from right. Harold Frank Dunstan is second from left seated, Geoffrey Wien-Smith is in the back row, far right.