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Old colonists 1836-1840 : Richard Baker
Richard Baker arrived in South Australia in August 1839 on board the ship the "Somersetshire". Carpenter, South Australian Railways, Adelaide.
South Adelaide
[General description] North Terrace cuts diagonally across this panoramic view of Adelaide looking north west. In the distance is the River Torrens, parklands and suburbs. Adelaide railway station is near the top left with Government House and grounds further east. Public buildings line the right-hand side of North Terrace (from left to right); the State Library of South Australia, South Australian Museum, Exhibition Hall (with dome) and Brookman building. Scott's Church can be seen on the opposite side of North Terrace. [On back of photograph] 'Aerial view of the Northern portion of South Adelaide / 1928'.
Postcard of a horse tram on Granite Island, Victor Harbor
Postcard showing a horse drawn tram travelling the track on Granite Island in South Australia. Some buildings and part of the causeway are in the background. According to a researcher, the South Australian Railways horse tram shown, was No.7, which was withdrawn when horse trams 5 and 6 were transferred from the Moonta Tramway in 1931.
Views in South Australia : collection of black and white photograph negatives
Negatives containing views of South Australian countryside. Includes farm scenes and machinery, animals, and the car of the photographer appears in many photographs.
Photographs relating to Messenger Press : trains
Photographs relating to transport - trains, created by Messenger Press, including South Australian Railways (S.A.R) locomotives.
Photographs of Cyril Richard Cole
Photographs collected by Cyril Richard Cole, relating to his war service during the First World War, and as Commander of the 1st Australian Forestry Company, Royal Australian Engineers, during the Second World War, along with photographs relating to his work in the Forestry industry including a Forestry Conference held in Western Australia in 1949, and holiday photographs. See below for details.
Photograph album of A. Simpson & Son goods and products
Photograph album comprising 98 photographs on 51 pages, featuring steel widown frames and other products made by A. Simpson & Son Ltd.
Photograph album 2
Collection of silver albumen photographs, in an album. Believed to have been taken by F.C. Krichauff, who worked as a photographer in South Australia. The photographs feature the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, Adelaide Zoo, the Eden Hills railway viaduct, countryside near the Gemmell's home at Bugle Range and scenes along the Murray River. See 'contents' for details of individual photographs.
Historic photograph album by D. Darian Smith
Comprising a collection of 34 aerial photographs of Adelaide city and surrounds by prominent South Australian aerial photographer D. Darian Smith. Collection includes early views of Adelaide, Port Noarlunga, Port Adelaide, Barossa Valley, Murray River areas and Victor Harbor. See also http://memorybank.atkins.com.au/galleries/ddariansmith viewed 1/2/2018. See also James Dodd diaries SLSA D 7968(L).
Prints from glass plate negatives of South Australian scenes
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.
Daisy Bates at a railway station
Daisy Bates standing on the platform of a railway station in 1934. The caption provided had the railway station as Ooldea, on the occasion of the visit of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester. According to a researcher, however, 'Ooldea station building was the standard Commonwealth Railways' one-roomed building without a raised platform. This scene is possibly a railway station in South Australia, but not Ooldea.' The 'Advertiser', 11 October 1934, however, reports that 'There was a longer halt at Ooldea, where the Duke spent half an hour riding, and met Mrs Daisy Bates O.B.E. whose work among the natives has made her famous.'
Photographs of W.A. Robjohns
The series comprises 15 albums housing 1,973 photographs, most of which were taken by photographer W.A. Robjohns ca.1920-1966. Album covers were numbered and labelled by Robjohns. The sequence is incomplete, however, as only volumes 1-9, 12-14, 15, 20 and 23 have been donated. Robjohns' brief descriptions of content on the covers and spines are incomplete. For further descriptions of place names and subjects contained in each album, SEE details below. The albums contain small black and white prints, mostly undated, with captions by W.R. Robjohns. Also sepia and postcard prints, and a few hand-tinted prints. A small number of images were taken by other photographers, several of whom have been identified by Robjohns. Images depict Adelaide suburbs, city scenes and country towns, with an emphasis on rural landscapes, parks and reserves, rivers, reservoirs, streets, houses, churches, businesses and shop fronts, and public celebrations and processions. Also included are images of the Robjohns family on picnics and holiday outings, and their homes, cars and pets. A number of photos were duplicated or enlarged by Robjohns and appear in more than one album.
Charles Buxton Anderson
[General description] Upper body portrait of Charles Buxton Anderson. Looking confidently at the camera his face stands out against the plain dark background and his dark jacket. [On back of photograph] 'Charles Buxton Anderson / Railways Commissioner' [Newspaper article attached to back of photograph] 'Mr. Charles Buxton Anderson, M. Inst. C.E., M.I.E., Australia (SA) / Railways Commissioner, is a son of the late Mr. John Anderson of Adelaide. He was born on August 19, 1879, at North Adelaide and was educated at the Glenelg College School and the School of Mines. In November of 1898 he joined the Engineeering Department of the South Australian Public Service, and was successively draughsman, surveyor, resident engineer for Railways, superintendent of Railways, acting chief engineer, and general superintendent of railways. He was appointed railways Commissioner in 1930 in succession to Mr. W.A. Webb and his management of this big public undertaking has been conspicuously successful'.
Views of Ooldea : Aboriginal people at Ooldea railway station
Two Aboriginal men and a number of Aboriginal children in front of the Ooldea Post Office. The caption reads 'a real Australian Eleven - Natives Ooldea - Trans railway'.
Departure of 2nd A.I.F. D
The War of 1939 - Departure of a contingent of the Second Australian Imperial Forces (A.I.F.). The scene at the Railway Station, Adelaide.
Album of people, places and events on Eyre Peninsula and the west coast of South Australia during the years 1929-1934
A collection of 329 photographs of people, events and places on the Eyre Peninsula and west coast of South Australia. Places include Cleve, Ceduna, Cowell, Franklin Harbor, Port Lincoln, Boston Bay. The album contains photographs which document the Back to Port Lincoln Carnival celebrations, 7-14 February 1930; photographs taken at Ceduna of the Western Australian Centenary Air Race 1929 (also known as the East- West Air Race); the refuelling stop at Ceduna of the inaugural flight of Air Mail services between Adelaide and Perth 1929 and the 130th Anniversary of the Landing of Matthew Flinders at Boston Bay, 26 February 1932. A number of sailing ships and motor vessels visiting Boston Bay between 1929 and 1934 were photographed, among them Melbourne, Olive Bank, Hougomont, Viking, Phasianella, Minnipa, King Stephen, Moonta, Rhymney, L'Avenir, Grootekerk and the new aircraft carrier HMAS Albatross which was first commissioned in 1929. The photographs include some interesting images of farming and transportation on the far west coast of South Australia, and show glimpses of the lives of Aboriginal people at that time at Poonindie Mission, Koonibba Mission, Fowler's Bay and Ceduna region. The photographs in this collection were taken by E. F. Derbyshire during the years 1929-1933, when he was a commercial traveller for Clarkson Limited of Adelaide, suppliers of builders' tools and hardware. See 'Contents' for more information and details of individual photographs.
World War Two photographs of Noel Stanley Errington
Photographs and postcards of Lance Corporal Noel Stanley Errington's active service in the Middle East with 2/43 Battalion, 9 Division AIF, including Lebanon, Syria, Palestine and Egypt, during the Second World War, comprising: Australian troops and camps, machine guns, artillery and tanks, and local people, landscapes and cities. Selected images have been digitised. See below for details.
Blacksmith, Islington
Blacksmith shop, Australian National Workshop, Islington Depot, Blacksmiths had been working at the site since the 1880's. According to a researcher, who once worked at the blacksmith shop, the man in the image is one of only two left-handed workers. One was Eddie J. Rust and the other G. Aistrophe. It is likely the man working the chain is Eddie J. Rust (known as Eddie Oxide). His position would have begun as a blacksmith and he would then have been upgraded to a chainsmith. Eddie Rust would have replaced Lennie Gerlach, who had taken over from Untermayer Gunther (Ugf) Schell.
Adelaide views album
Album of photographs of Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney, many of them taken by Samuel Sweet (images 1-80). Images 81-82 of Ceylon, nos. 83-95 of Malta, 96-101 of Windsor Castle and St George's Chapel, Windsor, 102-103 of Oxford, and 104-107 of English coastal town/s. Items 108-111 (loose in back of album) are prints from clasical scenes. Attribution for the photographs are as follows: images 1-50, 73 are by Sweet; images 77-79, and possibly 80 are by Charles Bayliss. Overseas scenes (images 81-111) have not been copied.
Blacksmith, Islington
Blacksmith shop, Australian National Workshop, Islington Depot. According to a researcher, who once worked at the blacksmith, the crew forging under the hammer are, from left to right, Rex Burford (blacksmith), man in the centre is Allen Holberton, man on the left is unknown. The Hammer driver would have been either G.W.(Bill) Hobby or Reg Debais. The men are pictured forging an old axle, which they are reworking into rectagular shapes. These shapes would then be forged into dog spike removers. The steam hammer would once have been a Davis and Primrose 50 tonne, built in Leith, Scotland circa 1890.
Views of early Adelaide : railway viaduct
View of a railway viaduct at Eden Hills south of Adelaide. The entrance to the tunnel can just be seen to the left. Also see B 4138. This image was published in 'The Pictorial Australian', Monday 1 August 1892, page 9. A similar view can be seen in 'Australian Town and Country Journal', Saturday 13 August 1887, page 26.
Photographs relating to H.F. Hubbe
A selection of World War One photographs taken by (and of) Hermann Fritz Hubbe and others including Eric Talbot Smith. Hermann Fritz Hubbe, John Hood and E. Talbot Smith were all killed during the war. There are photographs taken at sea outside Alexandria, at Lemnos Harbour and at camp, presumably in Egypt. Also includes photographs of King George V, Prime Minister Hughes and others taken on board "HMAS Australia" and photographs of Hermann's gravesite.
Crane: Port Adelaide
South Australian Harbors Board 15 Ton steam railway crane being converted in 1941, as a war time measure, to a 50 Ton traversing crane at Outer Harbour. According to a researcher, Chambers Scott was a Motherwell engineering firm which built a few steam cranes but this might have been their largest. They failed after a fire in 1926. Two 5' 3" gauge 6w+6w 10T steam railway cranes built by Chambers, Scott were constructed to Job No. 1139/1925 for the South Australian Harbors Board. Local newspaper articles dated Aug 1925 mentions their arrival ( 10t at 15' ) In World War II one was at Adelaide's Outer Harbour, where it had been converted to a 50T (60T in emergencies) traversing crane in 1941, to compensate for the transfer away of the floating crane. It was out of use and partially dismantled in 1968. The other was at Port Pirie in the 1960s; scrapped ca. 1967.
Henry Coathupe Mais
Henry Coathupe Mais: Engineer in Chief S.A, Civil Engineer and Railways and Tramways Engineer. After a career of railway engineering in England, Sydney and Melbourne he won the position of Engineer and Architect to the South Australian Government. He lived in Rundle Street, Kent Town and was famous for his musical evenings and lavish suppers. He was instrumental in building a connection from the Barrier Ranges to the Transcontinental Railway in South Australia. He is wearing an embroidered levee dress uniform with bicorn hat and ceremonial sword to which he was entitled as a high level civil servant, following the British court tradition. He left Adelaide for Melbourne where he died at South Yarra in 1916.
Railway office at Ooldea
Two Aboriginal men with a group of children standing outside the railway office at Ooldea on the East West Railway line, in the far west of South Australia; names not known.
Photographs relating to Goolwa, Victor Harbor and south coast region
Photographs and post cards collected by J.C. Tolley relating to the Goolwa, Victor Harbor and Granite Island. First 12 images are commercial postcards published by P.M. Wells, Goolwa and printed by Vardon Print, Adelaide. Others include aerial views of south coast region, Goolwa barrage and May 1929 'Back to Goolwa'.
Francis Thomas Elvidge
Half-plate glass negative of Private Francis Thomas Elvidge wearing World War One military uniform, holding a cane in his hands, and standing outdoors in a field, with some trees in the background. Written on original paper envelope: 'F.T. Eldridge. 1836 6 Cabs. Paid 1-6. 15 x 12 Bro. Mrs S. Eldridge, Carlton Street, Railway Town, B. Hill. 2 Bro. 2 Cab.'
Steam Motor Coach No.1
Steam Motor Coach No.1 at Alice Springs in a static display in the late 1960s.. It was built by Kiston & Co, in Leeds, England for the South Australian Railways and used in the Northern Division which was taken over by the Commonwealth Railways in 1924.
Railway Station, Nuriootpa
A 930 class locomotive of Australian National Railways at Nuriootpa station. It is probable the train is stabled prior to working the stone train from Penrice quarry.
Artist's interpretation of a railway accident at Long Gully
LONG GULLY: An artist's interpretation of a railway accident at Long Gully, Easter 1886.