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A procession in Adelaide

c. 1912, Photograph, PRG 280/1/6/424

Spectators in carriages and on the pavement watch members of a Druids Friendly Society taking part in a procession (possibly an Eight Hour Day parade) in Rundle Street, Adelaide.

South Australian tennis players

c. 1912, Photograph, PRG 280/1/6/425

A group of male and female prominent South Australian tennis players; they include Mr.Rowley, front row first left, Miss Payne, front row third from the right, and Mrs Parr, front row first right.

A team of four military horsemen

c. 1912, Photograph, PRG 280/1/6/426

A team of four military horsemen waiting for an event at an agricultural show.

A badly damaged residential building

c. 1912, Photograph, PRG 280/1/6/427

A residential building which is either badly damaged after a fire or in the process of being demolished.

Four women rowing on a river

c. 1910, Photograph, PRG 280/1/6/429

Four women rowing on a river, possibly the Torrens, with a boy as the cox.

Rowing team on Torrens Lake, Adelaide

c. 1912, Photograph, PRG 280/1/6/430

A rowing team training on Torrens Lake; three men appear to be coaching from a rowing boat in the foreground, the centre figure is the Revd.Canon Girdlestone, president of the Adelaide Rowing Club and headmaster of St.Peter's College school.

Premises of the Gepps Cross abattoir under construction

c. 1912, Photograph, PRG 280/1/6/431

Buildings under construction for the new abattoir at Gepps Cross, South Australia.

A swimmer diving off a platform into the sea

c. 1912, Photograph, PRG 280/1/6/432

A male swimmer diving off a platform into the sea in South Australia.

Port River boat races, South Australia

c. 1912, Photograph, PRG 280/1/6/433

Distant view of a boat race in progress on the Port River and the spectators watching from many small craft. [A researcher doubts this is the Port River, or even in South Australia].

Bowls players wearing hatbands lettered V.B.A

c. 1912, Photograph, PRG 280/1/6/434

A group of bowls players with a trophy, they wear hatbands lettered V.B.A. which could mean Victoria Bowls Association.

A champion race horse in South Australia

c. 1912, Photograph, PRG 280/1/6/435

A champion South Australian race horse standing with its handler.

Sir Day Bosanquet with army veterans

c. 1912, Photograph, PRG 280/1/6/436

Sir Day Bosanquet, Governor of South Australia sitting second row, fifth from the right with a group of army veterans who possibly served in the South African War.

A heavy crop of grapes

c. 1912, Photograph, PRG 280/1/6/437

Close view of a heavy crop of grapes grown in South Australia.

Members of the police football club, Adelaide

c. 1912, Photograph, PRG 280/1/6/438

Members and players of the police football club in Adelaide.

Women and children at Adelaide Botanic Gardens

c. 1912, Photograph, PRG 280/1/6/439

A large group of women and children at the Botanic Gardens, Adelaide, possibly associated with the Young Women's Christian Association.

Motor car arriving at Smoky Bay, South Australia

c. 1912, Photograph, PRG 280/1/6/440

A mud spattered motor car owned by Mr.Talbot arriving at Smoky Bay, South Australia.

Placing bets at Victoria Park racecourse, Adelaide

c. 1912, Photograph, PRG 280/1/6/441

Crowds of racegoers placing bets at Victoria Park racecourse, Adelaide.

South Australian teachers

1912, Photograph, PRG 280/1/6/442

A group of young teachers outside the Observation School, Adelaide.

Members of Jamestown Show committee

1912, Photograph, PRG 280/1/6/443

Members of Jamestown agricultural show committee. A researcher believes that the gentleman who is third from the left is Mr Spencer Morgan Evans of Jamestown, who was a world famous racing pigeon fancier and owned Belalie Lofts.