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Alfred Von Doussa (left) politician and horse racing promoter

c. 1914, Photograph, PRG 280/1/8/361

Alfred Von Doussa (left) politician and horse racing promoter; he was the Secretary of the Onkaparinga Racing Club from 1875 to 1924 and was a founder of its Oakbank Easter races.

Prints from glass plate negatives of South Australian scenes

Tolley, J. C., 1900, Photograph, PRG 1377/78/1-231

Prints from glass plate negatives of photographs of scenes of country South Australia and Adelaide, taken in the first decade of the 20th century. See 'Contents' for more details about the photographs. Some locations, exact dates and the photographers' names are unknown - see 'More info' section for information. Do a NUMBER search on PRG 1377/78/1-231 to see digitised images of this collection.

Arthur Stanley Frost, Air Training Corps

Mayfair Studio, c. 1944, Photograph, PRG 1696/7/46

Digital copy of a black and white studio photograph of Arthur Stanley Frost, aged approximately 16 years old, in Air Training Corps (ATC) uniform, 72 Squadron.

Arthur Stanley Frost, Air Training Corps

c. 1944, Photograph, PRG 1696/7/47

Digital copy of a black and white photograph of Arthur Stanley Frost in Air Training Corps (ATC) uniform, 72 Squadron. Photograph believed to have been taken at the barracks.

Arthur Stanley Frost, Air Training Corps

c. 1944, Photograph, PRG 1696/7/48

Digital copy of a black and white photograph of Arthur Stanley Frost in Air Training Corps (ATC) uniform, 72 Squadron. Photograph believed to be taken at the barracks.

Maurice 'Mick' William Frost, Air Training Corps

c. 1944, Photograph, PRG 1696/7/49

Digital copy of a black and white photograph of Maurice 'Mick' William Frost in Air Training Corps (ATC) uniform. Photograph believed to have been taken at the barracks.

Maurice 'Mick' William Frost, Air Training Corps

c. 1944, Photograph, PRG 1696/7/50

Digital copy of a black and white photograph of Maurice 'Mick' William Frost in Air Training Corps (ATC) uniform. Photograph believed to have been taken at the barracks.

Arthur Stanley Frost and Maurice 'Mick' William Frost

c. 1944, Photograph, PRG 1696/7/51

Digital copy of a sepia photograph of Maurice 'Mick' William Frost [left] and Arthur Stanley Frost [right] in their Air Training Corps (ATC) uniforms.

Maurice 'Mick' William Frost

c. 1943, Photograph, PRG 1696/7/54

Digital copy of a black and white photograph of Maurice 'Mick' William Frost dressed in a suit.

Violet Edith Frost (nee Murray) with bridesmaid

1954, Photograph, PRG 1696/8/10

Digital copy of a black and white photograph of Violet Edith Frost (nee Murray) [left] posing for a traditional 'photograph in the mirror' with bridesmaid Shirley Grubb (nee Robinson) in the bedroom of her mother, Jean Dorothy Murray, at Woodside.

Series 071: King's Cup, Murray Bridge

Smith, D. Darian, 1937, Photograph, BRG 397/2/71

Aerial photographs of the King's Cup coxed eight rowing race at Murray Bridge. Spectators and their cars are viewing the race from the cliff tops in two of the images. Other images show the competing boats and support craft at various stages of the race. One photograph depicts Oakbank Racecourse from the air.

Aldgate Hotel

c. 1900, Photograph, B 12250

Oakbank racegoers and their horse drawn carriages outside the Aldgate Pump Hotel. The Oakbank Racing Club was formed in 1876 and is the only one to have raced continuously in South Australia over that time

Buildings & places : O

Messenger Press, c. 1990, Photograph, B 71776/1-11

A selection of photographs relating to Buildings & places. See 'contents' for details of individual images.

House, Murray Bridge

1904, Photograph, B 17969

The Faerhmann family home at Murray Bridge, now demolished. It was the old (unlicensed) Hotel situated on the corner of Adelaide Road and Mannum Road, Murray Bridge. In 1904 the property was purchased from Johnstons brewers of Oakbank by Carl Agust Faehrmann and his wife Jessie who then established a blacksmith and wheelwright business on the property.

Coach and Horses Hotel, Salisbury

Phillips, K. P., c. 1854, Artwork, B 7169

Coloured lithograph published in 'The Chronicle Annual', Monday 4th October 1937, one of two coloured reproductions of early paintings (see B 7170 for the other artwork) under the heading 'Early South Australia'. This image is a reproduction of an early painting of 'Old Salisbury Hotel by K.P Phillips. An historic picture belonging to Messrs Pike & Co., Oakbank, showing an early day hotel on the middle road to Burra. The hotel was a calling place for the coach from Adelaide to the copper mines, and was demolished about 70 years ago [ie ca.1867]. All that remains of it today [ie 1937] are portions of the walls, and the cellar, which is now used as an underground tank'.

Old Unley Inn

c. 1913, Photograph, B 19133

Old Unley Inn, Unley. According to a researcher, this building relates to the 74th Infantry Regiment. This was the first headquarters of the 74th Infantry Regiment, in the de-licensed Unley Inn at 158-160 Unley Road, South Australia, used from 1 July 1911 until 13 March 1915. The Unley Inn had been built in 1847-48 by William Ewens, who had come to South Australia on the Prince Regent in 1839; he was a publican in Adelaide in the early 1840s but in December 1847 he retired on 1½ acres of land at Unley where he built the Unley Inn and took out a Licence the following year. He died soon after, but his wife Sarah continued to manage the Unley Inn while living in the adjoining cottage. This photograph is from the period between May 1912 and June 1913 when the regiment was known as the 74th Infantry (Boothby Battalion): the drill hall has the title 'HEADQUARTERS BOOTHBY BATTALION', with a smaller sign above the verandah, '74th INFANTRY'. In June 1913 the battalion was redesignated 74th (Boothby) Infantry. On 13 March 1915, the new drill hall and headquarters of the 74th (Boothby) Infantry was established in Thomas Street, Unley.

Motorcycle policemen

1931, Photograph, B 46314

Motorcycle policemen, Oakbank Traffic Controllers.

South Terrace, North Side

c. 1890, Photograph, B 26668

South Terrace, north side. Right side of building is set in approximately 8 yards west from Hutt Street. South Terrace frontage: 19 yards. This house was once occupied by Ellen Henrietta Briggs and Sir Jenkin Coles, mother and father in law of William Bispham Propsting, Premier of Tasmania, 1903. The house exixted (with a number of unsympathetic additions) as the TPI Association House till early 2010. [from information provided].