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Grain elevator, Victoria Harbour, Ontario Canada

c. 1910, Photograph, PRG 280/1/12/362

Canadian Pacific Railway grain elevator and silos, Victoria Harbour, Ontario. The photograph shows the first ship to unload at the new elevator in the fall of 1910, Empress of Fort William. Note the unfinished dock area. (information supplied by a researcher).

A grain silo, Victoria Harbour, Ontario, Canada

c. 1915, Photograph, PRG 280/1/12/361

The Canadian Pacific grain silo built by John S. Metcalf and Co., at Victoria Harbour, Ontario, Canada.

Canadian Pacific Railway grain elevator at Port McNicoll, Ontario

c. 1910, Photograph, PRG 280/1/12/363

A grain elevator and silos at Port McNicoll, Ontario, Canada.

Grain Shipping Terminals at Montreal, Canada

c. 1915, Photograph, PRG 280/1/12/364

Silos and grain shipping facilities at the harbour, Montreal, Canada.

Heroes of World War I

1915, Photograph, PRG 280/1/12/366

A roll of honor listing with photographs thirty members of the A.I.F. including the South Australian soldier D.J. Stow.

Clarissa Adeline French

Thelma-Duryea Studios, 1912, Photograph, PRG 280/1/12/367

'A young South Australian': a studio view of a child who is posed as if she is about to dive into the sea which is represented by a painted backcloth; the little girl is identified as Clarissa Adeline French, born December 29, 1909 and died in 1919, buried at Woodville, South Australia.

Donald Jefferson Stow

c. 1915, Photograph, PRG 280/1/12/368

Former Adelaide Taxation Office employee Private Donald Jefferson Stow with two young children in a London park, England. Donald 'Jefferson' Stow was born in Norwood, South Australia in 1891. Regimental No. 1098, 16th Battalion Machine Gun Section, Private Stow enlisted in the AIF on 12 September 1914 and landed at Gallipoli on the afternoon of 25 April 1915. He received a gun shot wound to his left breast on 8 August 1915. After evacuation and receiving medical treatment in England he returned to his unit and in December transferred to the 44th Battalion. On 12 April 1916 he married Linda Martin. In France on 2 August 1918 he was wounded again, receiving gunshot wounds to his left arm and buttock. Stow returned to Australia in 1918 and was discharged on 24 March 1919. He died in South Australia on 5 January 1973. This image appeared in the Adelaide Chronicle on Saturday 5 August 1916, and is also at PRG 280/1/3/194.

Sir Day Bosanquet attending an awards ceremony

c. 1912, Photograph, PRG 280/1/12/369

Sir Day Bosanquet, Governor of South Australia and the head of the police and fire services sitting with the recipients of the King's Police Medal; the medals were awarded to firemen and water police in a ceremony at Government House, Adelaide, South Australia as a result of a fire on the sailing vessel the 'South Africa'.

A rowing team on the Port River, South Australia

1913, Photograph, PRG 280/1/12/370

A cox and an eight rowing team on the Port River, Port Adelaide, South Australia.

Buying a flower for charity.

c. 1914, Photograph, PRG 280/1/12/371

A young girl selling a sprig of flowers to an elderly gentleman, possibly during a fund raising day in South Australia.

Mrs. Boxer Ware of South Australia

c. 1914, Photograph, PRG 280/1/12/372

Close view of a fashionably dressed woman identified as Mrs.Boxer Ware attending a South Australian function.

Memory Cove, South Australia

c. 1914, Photograph, PRG 280/1/12/374

A coastal scene at Memory Cove near Port Lincoln, South Australia.

Edward John Eyre

c. 1890, Photograph, PRG 280/1/12/375

South Australian explorer Edward John Eyre; a studio view.

Captain Thomas Rossiter

c. 1880, Photograph, PRG 280/1/12/376

Captain Thomas Rossiter of the French whaling barque 'Mississippi'.

Commemoration plaque at Rosetta Head, South Australia

c. 1910, Photograph, PRG 280/1/12/377

The commemoration plaque at Rosetta Head, also known as the Bluff, erected in memory of the meeting of the early navigators Matthew Flinders and Nicolas Baudin on April 8, 1802 at Encounter Bay, South Australia.

Encounter Bay, South Australia

1910, Photograph, PRG 280/1/12/378

Distant view of the Bluff at Encounter Bay, near Victor Harbor, South Australia.

Flinders monument near Port Lincoln, South Australia

c. 1910, Photograph, PRG 280/1/12/379

Two men at the base of the Flinders Monument near Port Lincoln, South Australia.

Flinders' Monument, Port Lincoln, South Australia

1900, Photograph, PRG 280/1/12/380

The marble inscription appearing on the Flinders' Monument near Port Lincoln, South Australia.

Captain Matthew Flinders

1813, Photograph, PRG 280/1/12/381

A portrait of Captain Matthew Flinders, the noted navigator.

The Flinders' column, Mount Lofty, South Australia

c. 1902, Photograph, PRG 280/1/12/382

The tablet inscription on the Flinders' column, Mount Lofty summit, South Australia.

Flinders' column, Mount Lofty, South Australia

c. 1902, Photograph, PRG 280/1/12/383

A crowd at the base of Flinders' column, Mount Lofty summit, South Australia.

Inscription on a memorial at Memory Cove

c. 1902, Photograph, PRG 280/1/12/384

The text of the Memory Cove copper tablet which was originally erected near Port Lincoln, South Australia commemorating the loss at sea of members of the Matthew Flinders expedition; it is now held in the South Australian Museum.

A mining company share certificate

1913, Photograph, PRG 280/1/12/385

A share certificate for the Star of the North Mining company.

The wax seal of Brother John Roland

c. 1913, Photograph, PRG 280/1/12/386

The wax seal of Brother John Roland of the Franciscan Order of Minors (White Friars).

Subdivision of Australia into Separate Colonies

1904, Photograph, PRG 280/1/12/387

'Statement illustrated by diagrams shewing the subdivision of Australia into separate colonies between 1787 and 1863', compiled by the Department of Lands from data in the Public Library, Sydney, New South Wales. 7p.