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Photograph album of Ceduna
Album of photographs of Ceduna and region, mostly captioned by Howard Gwynn Watson, photographer and owner of a local garage. See 'contents' note for more details.
Man standing next to a locomotive
Half-plate glass copy negative of a print of man standing next to an early locomotive. Information from a researcher: Builder: Baldwin, USA. Builders No. 7860. Palmerston (Port Darwin) to Pine Creek contract builders loco 1886-9. Puchased by SAR becoming No. 107 (Sandfly). Transferred to Commonwealth Railways 1-1-1911. CR renumbered in 1917 to NA1. Withdrawn from service in June 1950. Displayed at Port Augusta Railway Station 1960 to 1982 and from May 1984 at Keswick Passenger Terminal, Adelaide.
Commonwealth Railways menus
Two menus fom the Commonwealth Railways service on 'The Ghan' from Port Augusta to Alice Springs, 7 February 1966, with handwritten annotations.
Reverend Arthur M. Trengove : SUMMARY RECORD
Records of the Reverend Arthur M. Trengove comprising approximately 1300 lantern slides and glass plate negatives. To a lesser extent there are nitrate negatives and prints. The majority were created in South Australia and document the landscape and his activities as Reverend. Items include images of the following areas; Mid North and Flinders Ranges, Eyre Peninsula (including Cowell, Franklin Harbour, Hissey's Creek, Coonarie Falls, Winnowing, Arno Bay, Port Lincoln), Adelaide Botanic and Zoological Gardens, Port Elliot and Hindmarsh River, Beetaloo Reservoir, Bundaleer, Prince Alfred College, Mount Gambier, River Murray, Mannum and Renmark. Trengove spent time abroad in both New Zealand and during World War 1 in Egypt. Both trips are documented. There are also many family portraits, mainly taken during the mission years in northern South Australia. There are items of interest including a wooden and metal gas lantern slide projector and wooden frames for the slides, used in projection. There is a decorative light projection device with a prism-like light refractor which would have been used for creating patterned and coloured light presentations.
First Street, Quorn
First Street, Quorn showing shops, hotel and Adams Drapery and Boot Store. Quorn was surveyed in 1878 then the railway line from Port Augusta to Quorn was opened in 1879. East-West trains bypassed Quorn from 1937 when the standard gauge railway connection was opened between Port Augusta and Port Pirie Junction.
Portraits in South Australia
Photographs in black & white and some sepia, of portraits of South Australian people and scenes ca. 1890-1930. Some images include noteworthy costumes. See CONTENTS for more information and details.
Photographs of life on the Trans-Australian Railway Line
Photographs of the construction of the Trans Australian Railway from Port Augusta to Kalgoorlie together with portraits of people, many of whom are family members. The series contains 121 contact print enlargements, most of which are uncaptioned. See 'contents' for details of items.
Coondambo Station
Bullock teams carting wool from Coondambo Station.
Coondambo Station
Station hands on a stripped Model T Ford with a camel led by a cord from a nose peg.
Coondambo Station
Interior view of men's sleeping quarters at East Well.
Vegetable garden Coondambo
The homestead's vegetable garden, Tom Bird the gardener; wooden windmill tower is wooden and has an Aliston self oiling head.
Taylor's Farm, Pichi Richi
Showing Taylor's farm and railway line to Port Augusta. District foreman Cooke, S.A.R. in foreground. Pichi Richi Pass occurs on the railway line from Port Augusta to Quorn. The name Pichi Richi is believed to have come from the region where pituri is grown, this is a mixture of leaves chewed as a stimulant by Australian Aboriginals
Shunter engine, Quorn
Diesel narrow gauge Shunter, the Engine was built at Port Augusta Workshops.
Cook Railway Station
Cook Railway Station on the standard gauge Trans-Australian Railway from Port Augusta to Kalgoorlie. It is 826 kilometres (513 miles) by rail from Port Augusta.
Thomas Burgoyne
Thomas Burgoyne was a builder and politician in the early days of the colony of South Australia. He was born in Wales and arrived in South Australia on board the "Royal Sovereign". He had a thriving business in Port Augusta as an architect, surveyor and builder who employed hundreds of workers. He built many of the first buildings in Port Augusta. He was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1884-1915. He had a reputation as being logical, a sound and persuasive debater with a great faith in the future of South Australia
Camel Team
Camel Team transporting wool from outback stations to Port Augusta before the railway was opened from Port Augusta to Kalgoolie. The camels each carry two large bales and appear to have bells around their necks. A cameleer and his dogs walk along side them.
Camel Team
Camel team used for road making.
Dodge Tourer with a Large Cart
1924 Dodge Tourer, reg. no. 27176, outside the Port Augusta West motor garage of its motor mechanic owner, Leslie Ruston Barber. The Dodge was first registered in February 1924. Barber operated his business in Port Augusta West from 1924 to the start of WWII.
Two Y class engines pulling a passenger train
QUORN: Two Y class engines pulling a passenger train to Port Augusta. The view is at curve 29 from Quorn. It is possibly the train inaugurating the East-West Transcontinental, on its way to Port Augusta to connect with the new standard gauge train, in 1917.
Railway water supply in the Flinders Ranges
GENERAL: Men inspecting the water supply for the Port Augusta Railway in the Flinders Ranges.
South Australian Scenery : Ostrich incubators
General view of Ostrich Farm. Incubators.
South Australian Scenery : Ostrich pair with young
General view of Ostrich Farm. A pair with young.
South Australian Scenery : Ostrich eggs
General view of Ostrich Farm. Eggs in incubator. One young hatched.
South Australian Scenery : Ostrich protecting eggs
General view of Ostrich Farm. Driven off, but standing over eggs to protect them.
South Australian Scenery : Male and female Ostriches
General view of Ostrich Farm. Male and female Ostriches.
Adelaide-Perth Telegraph Line centenary commemorative ceremony
Photograph of participants in a ceremony to commemorate the centenary of the Adelaide-Perth Telegraph Line, held at North Road Church of England cemetery, Collinswood, 8 December 1977. From left: Ross R. Knuckey, Robert R. Knuckey, J.D. Wood (partially obscured), R.G. Thomson, C.K. Knuckey, J.W. Thomson, S.W. Marchant, C. Davis (partially obscured), D.L. Beames (back to camera), H.W. Johnson, Mrs Vivienne Johnson (nee Marchant), F.S.W. Gubbins, F.P. O'Grady, K.F. Work, M.J. Gooley, J.A. Johinke, K.G.Herbert, G.C. Gaskin, A.T. Booth. Plot 3664, Path 23 North, the men are standing facing Richard Randall KNUCKEY's grave (white tablet seen in bottom left hand corner of photo) Knuckey was appointed as Overseer of Section A of the Overland Telegraph Line from Port Augusta to Darwin in 1870. He was overseer of the construction of telegraph line from Port Augusta to Eucla in WA. [Source: North Road Cemetery historian]
Photographs taken during surveys for the Transcontinental East-West railway route
A set of 47 of 55 lantern slides showing early survey work, terrain, water sources, vegetation, camel transport, settlements and landmarks along routes under consideration for the transcontinental railway between Kalgoorlie and Port Augusta, 1901-1909. Slides include views of rock holes, soaks, tanks; trees and timber including quandong, black oak and sandalwood; vegetation such as spinifex, salt bush; terrain including gibber plain, granite outcrops, sand dune and salt lakes; camels and camel transport; and locations identified as Kalgoorlie, Eucla, Ooldea Soak, Tarcoola. Some slides cover the visit to Eucla and the Nullarbor Plain of the Engineers-in-Chief (1903); two slides show teams of men and survey equipment on the Nullarbor Plain. An additional glass plate negative which was found with the slides and appears to relate to this group of lantern slides has been placed with them.
South Australian Amateur Photographic Society Stockbook
ALBUM: inscribed 'Amateur photographer's stock book, whole plate' by the South Australian Amateur Photographic Society collection, comprising 42 views of Adelaide and including Aboriginal 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.
William Raymond Holman 'sheep dipping' at Yardea station.
Comprising a black and white photograph of William Raymon Holman, dipping sheep in solution, in order to prevent disease, at Yardea station, about 240 km west of Port Augusta.