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Photographs of construction work at General Motors Holden plants : Melbourne

GM Holden Ltd, 1955, Photograph, BRG 213/77/65/1-21

Photographs of construction work at Holden plant in Melbourne, likely Fishermen's Bend. Includes exterior and interior views of buildings, basements and equipment being built.

Photographs of construction work at General Motors Holden plants : Woodville

GM Holden Ltd, 1955, Photograph, BRG 213/77/65/22-67

Photographs of buildings under construction at General Motors Holden factory at Woodville, including progress on steel frames, roofing, foundations, windows and internal fittings.

Photographs of construction work at General Motors Holden plants : Birkenhead and Mosman Park

GM Holden Ltd, 1955, Photograph, BRG 213/77/65/115-128

Photographs of construction work and factory buildings at General Motors-Holden plants in Birkenhead, S.A. and Mosman Park, W.A.

Outback South Australia, Inland Mission, Ambulances and, some interstate locations

Harper, Stanley Trengove, Rev., c. 1920, Photograph, PRG 1767/1

Lantern slides used by Rev. Stanley Trengove Harper

Photographs of General Motors Holden plants in Australia

GM Holden Ltd, 1953, Photograph, BRG 213/73/13/1

Note in album reads 'Prepared by Manf. Dept. for Project 650 Submission 1953/4'. Exterior and interior photographs of Holden plants and workers around Australia, including: Photographs of Fishermen's Bend plant including aerial images of factory showing location next to the Yarra River, men at work in draughting office, and laboratory, men operating machinery, men wearing protective eyewear while pouring molten metal, factory interiors, man operating a forklift, labelled engine and brake parts, vehicle with carriages for touring plant, Medical Department with sign in English, Italian and German, man receiving dental treatment from dentist and nurse. Photographs of Woodville plant including aerial image of factory, men working on car bodies, men assembling springs for seats, women working with sewing machines in trim fab, car bodies being loaded on truck, car bodies transported by train. Photographs of Pagewood plant including aerial image of factory, men assembling car bodies, plant machinery, manufacturing of Frigidaire refrigerators. Aerial photographs of Perth (Mosman Park) and Birkenhead plants. Photographs of main building at Brisbane (Fortitude Valley) plant, and Disco plant at Port Melbourne.

Load of mulga wood

Clarke, Mavis Thorpe, 1960, Photograph, PRG 1768/4/9

Mulga wood [acacia aneura] being loaded onto a flat bed truck.

South Australian commercial and public buildings: Office building

Arnold Studios, c. 1955, Photograph, BRG 346/34/6/19

One of a series of miscellaneous photographs of South Australian commercial and public buildings, most likely designed by South Australian architects. View of a large two story cream brick business building, with delivery trucks parked in the central under roof bay.

Photographs of Berenyi Winery

G. & R. Berenyi Winery, c. 1969, Photograph, BRG 393/7/1-9

Photographs of Gabor Berenyi and family members, and the winery at McLaren Vale. Original photographs not held.

Construction on former Verco House site

John Martin & Co, 1962, Photograph, BRG 121/1/176/2

Trucks parked alonside steel framework on new building on the Verco House site on North Terrace.

Elizabeth City Centre

Holland, Frank, c. 1964, Photograph, B 78592/3

View of Elizabeth City Centre shops, looking approximately southwest. The photograph was taken from the roof of the old Elizabeth Police Station while the photographer's father inspected a leak. The area of open concrete is the site now occupied by the southeastern corner of the shopping centre, including the clocktower approximately where the small truck is parked.

Fire fighters protesting at the Firies and Ambos protest, Parliament House

Gonçalves, Fernando M., 2021, Photograph, PRG 1766/33/11

Fire fighters protesting at the Firies and Ambos Need Your Help protest rally, Parliament House. A woman is holding a sign with the statement, 'Marshall doesn't give a truck'.

Anti sand mining protesters at the S.A. May Day 2021 march

Gonçalves, Fernando M., 2021, Photograph, PRG 1766/25/38

Anti sand mining protesters at the S.A. May Day 2021 march. They are holding signs and banners, 'Don't truck our beach', 'Save our shores', 'No sand carting', and 'don't sandmine Semaphore beach'.

Photographs of Adelaide Zoo

Haggard, Vincent D., 1959, Photograph, PRG 1786/1

Colour slides depicting animals and enclosures at Adelaide Zoo during the 1950s and 1960s. The photographer was Director of the Zoo. The photographs show some of the animals held by the zoo in this period, and the environments they lived in. One of the animals depicted is Samorn the Asian elephant who was a favourite at Adelaide Zoo and later Monarto Zoological Park from 1956 to her death in 1994.

Richmond Heavy Towing Ford F350

Foreman, Kingsley, c. 1985, Photograph, B 78649/10

Richmond Heavy Towing Ford F350 at the first Grand Prix in Adelaide.

Pagewood Plant: Surfacing storage yard, southern section

GM Holden Ltd, 1962, Photograph, BRG 213/76/4/91

Caption reads: 'Surfacing storage yard: External view of the southern section of the yard showing finished strips and excavations for two other strips'. Two cement trucks are pouring concrete. Car bodies are lined up on the right, and sand dunes and houses are seen in the distance.