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A wedding reception at Unley

1924, Photograph, PRG 280/1/45/4

Guests at a wedding reception at the Unley Banqueting Room, showing people seated at tables, and decorations in the form of streamers and greenery.

Catching oranges in the River Torrens

1923, Photograph, PRG 280/1/45/5

Following heavy rain men and boys on the Hindmarsh Tramway Bridge caught oranges in the River Torrens with improvised nets attached to long poles.

Crowd at function

c. 1924, Photograph, PRG 280/1/45/6

A large crowd of men and women, all well dressed, seated at an unidentified venue.

Cricket team

Smith, W. S., c. 1924, Photograph, PRG 280/1/45/7

An unidentified cricket team, with a young boy in front, pictured in front of an ivy-covered structure. [Note: obviously taken on the same day and place as the cricket team pictured in PRG 280/1/45/15.] According to a researcher this is the East Torrens B grade cricket team which played Sturt in the Final for season 1923-24. Back row [left to right] RH Dodd, AH Hearnden, HEP Whitfield, WM Mitchell, HCD Barker; Front row [l to r] MS Lonmire, R Wilson, CS Catt, W Scott, SH Richardson, AV Pitkin.

Crowd outside Wakefield Street fire station

1924, Photograph, PRG 280/1/45/8

A large crowd in Wakefield Street in front of the fire station, for the funeral of Fireman Greenham, killed on SS 'City of Singapore', April 1924.

Prize winning wool

1924, Photograph, PRG 280/1/45/9

J.H. Lindsay & Sons champion prize for best three fleeces, ewes' wool oveer 1 1/2 years from the salt bush country.

Tea Tree Gully

1924, Photograph, PRG 280/1/45/10

View of a church, hall and adjoining houses at Tea Tree Gully, originally described a 'near Houghton in ranges close to Adelaide'.

Walford House hockey championship win

Smith, W. S., 1923, Photograph, PRG 280/1/45/11

Lady Bridges with the captain of Walford House hockey team, Margaret Hodge, to whom she presented the Secondary Schools' Hockey Association shield and cup following the Walford House two - nil win over Methodist Ladies' College team on Adelaide Oval on 27 July 1923.

Marking lambs at Coulta

1923, Photograph, PRG 280/1/45/12

Three men in rough wooden yards, engaged in lambe marking at Coluta on Eyres Peninsula.

Ladies race on the Swan River

1923, Photograph, PRG 280/1/45/13

Three women's rowing fours at the finish of a race on the Swan River, Perth, watched by spectators on a number of ferry boats.

Coursing greyhounds in South Australia

1923, Photograph, PRG 280/1/45/14

Two winners of a South Australian greyhound coursing championship: 'Mr F. Huckel's Lady Juno and Mr H Hagel's White Malley'.

Sturt Cricket Team

1924, Photograph, PRG 280/1/45/15

Members of the Sturt cricket team of April 1924, pictured in front of an ivy-covered structure. Names are as follows; [back row l to r] SW Smith (umpire), VP Selth, FH Golding, AE Hodder, JK Bruce, AJ Bartlett, GA Whiting, CL Cornish (umpire) [front row l to r] HJ McKay, FK Gould, HB Willsmore, VY Richardson (captain), RJB Townsend, JJ Barrett. [sitting front] SA Nancarrow (scorer). [Note: obviously taken on the same day and place as the cricket team pictured in PRG 280/1/45/7.]

View of Port Lincoln from Quality Hill

1923, Photograph, PRG 280/1/45/16

View across the town of Port Lincoln and harbour, with the inscription on the back 'Port Lincoln SA - 1923 - 3rd finest harbour in the world'.

Opening of SA Parliament

1924, Photograph, PRG 280/1/45/17

Parade of army personnel on North Terrace outside Parliament House to coincide with the July 1924 opening of Parliament. See also PRG 280/1/45/53.

Adelaide Hospital house staff.

Smith, W. S., 1921, Photograph, PRG 280/1/45/18

Adelaide Hospital house staff, standing L-R: Doctors Robert McM. Glynn, H.G. Wallace, J.E. Mahon, and B.F. Francis. Sitting L-R: Doctors R.S. Hecker, F.H. Beare, C.T. Turner, D.M. Steele (Medical Superintendent), Clarence O.F. Rieger and R.L.E. Walmsley.

SA State Schools team

1924, Photograph, PRG 280/1/45/19

Members of the SA State Schools football team, which visited Melbourne and Sydney, July 1924. The Hon. L.L. Hill and W. McCoy in the front row.

'This is the cup'

1924, Photograph, PRG 280/1/45/20

Photograph of a metal mug inscribed 'Pinched by Senator R.V. Wilcox(?) - at the Press Debate - Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese - 7.5.24'.

PAC football team

1924, Photograph, PRG 280/1/45/21

Team photograph of the Prince Alfred College football team. None of the individual players are identified.

Justice Napier

1924, Photograph, PRG 280/1/45/22

Justice Napier, in full legal regalia, at the opening of Parliament in Adelaide.

Mr Crawford on 'Jackerbee'

1924, Photograph, PRG 280/1/45/23

Mr Crawford on 'Jackerbee' going over a jump at Jubilee Oval as part of an Adelaide Hunt Club event.

John Bull Hotel

1924, Photograph, PRG 280/1/45/24

A travel party of men pose with their vehicles outside Walter H. Rankine's John Bull Hotel at 67 Currie Street, Adelaide. [The building was demolished 28 February 1958.] The vehicles are all Ford T tourers, with the exception of the second from left, which is possibly a Dodge tourer.

Members of the Onkaparinga Racing Club

1924, Photograph, PRG 280/1/45/25

A group of men outside a corrugated tin building. Identified on the back as the 'Onkaparinga Club', the following names are also noted: Sir L. Shiley(?), L.V. Dawson(?), A.Wm. Dawson (?), Connor(?). W.P. Dunk is front row second from right. He was once listed as the tallest man in SA.