Victor Harbor • Find • State Library of South Australia

Keith Jarvis

c. 1914, Photograph, BRG 216/22/23

A black and white studio portrait photograph of Keith Jarvis in WWI military uniform. Keith did not return from service, dying in Egypt from fever in 1916.

Children in front of Bell's Stores

Kaines, Jack A. P., 1917, Photograph, PRG 1638/1/13

Children (Bessie, Bob, Gerald and Ken Stock) standing in front of Bell's Stores building in Victor Harbor. According to a researcher, the children's mother operated the Summerlea Guest House which would have been behind the photographer.

Man on motorbike

Kaines, Jack A. P., 1919, Photograph, PRG 1638/2/121

Man on a motorbike.

Plaque commemorating the centenary of the meeting of Flinders and Baudin

Kaines, Jack A. P., 1924, Photograph, PRG 1638/5/28

Norman Kaines (left) and another man leaning against a boulder with a plaque commemorating the centenary of the meeting of Matthew Flinders and Nicholas Baudin at Encounter bay in 1802. A Crown Lands Office sign behind the rock states that a penalty of 50 pounds exists for "wilfully defacing this tablet".

People at Umbrella Rock, Granite Island

Bradley, Len, c. 1920, Photograph, B 73952

Photograph of a group of people sitting in a rocky hollow beside Umbrella Rock on Granite Island, with the sea and the Bluff in view behind.

Dot and Allan Finlayson

Kaines, Jack A. P., 1926, Photograph, PRG 1638/6/67

Dot and Allan Finlayson with Phyliss Forword, near Victor Harbor.

Richard Aldersey at Umbrella Rock

Kaines, Jack A. P., 1917, Photograph, PRG 1638/1/26

Richard Aldersey at Umbrella Rock, Granite Island.

Women by the side of a car

Kaines, Jack A. P., 1926, Photograph, PRG 1638/6/63

Women by the side of the car at Strawberry Gardens, near Victor Harbor.

Four women and a man

Kaines, Jack A. P., 1926, Photograph, PRG 1638/6/65

Four women and a man, including Mrs. Lucas and Cyril Piper, near Victor Harbor.

Jack Bruce and friend

c. 1912, Photograph, BRG 216/26/1

Kodak photographic studio postcard of Jack Bruce (John McCulloch Bruce) seated with an unknown friend alongside.

Maudie White at Victor Harbor

c. 1945, Photograph, PRG 1664/18/3

Maudie White, partner of Don South, swinging on a swing, possibly at Granite Island.

Young boy and dog in the garden

Hutchinson, Orlando Bingham, c. 1907, Photograph, B 76282/1

Produced from a glass plate negative (8 x 5.8 cm) taken by Orlando Hutchinson, this image features a small boy playing in the garden with his dog. The railing of the verandah surrounding a brick house is behind them. It seems likely it is Hutchinson's son, Orlando Bingham Hutchinson Junior, born 1905, in the photo. [The same child is also featured in photos 6-8.]

Aerial photographs of the city of Victor Harbor : Waitpinga

Jones, Daryl, 2007, Photograph, B 75916/1-7

Aerial views of Waitpinga near the city of Victor Harbor, South Australia, including views of King Head and West Island, a quarry, and Encounter Bay and Victor Harbor in the distance, with surround fields and hills in the foreground.

Port Victor with Hindmarsh River and canal in foreground

c. 1920, Photograph, PRG 1258/2/483

Port Victor with Hindmarsh River and canal in foreground.

Port Victor, South Australia with a passenger liner lying offshore

c. 1930, Photograph, PRG 1258/2/508

Port Victor, South Australia, with a passenger liner lying offshore, while several men use a cargo crane to shift wheat bales, and two draught horses stand beside a loaded rail truck and motor truck.

Volunteer Defence Corps, Victor Harbour Unit

1945, Photograph, B 73760

Group portrait of the Volunteer Defence Corps, Victor Harbour Unit of 1945. Taken outdoors with a truck in the background. Back row: L/C F. Keen, Pte. A. Jackson, Pte. H. Lewis, Pte. L. Tapley, Pte. J. Wicker, Cpl. H. W. Barnett, Cpl. K. Rumbelow, L/C E. Coote. 2nd row: Pte. H. Lovell, Pte. H Welch, Pte. J. Stone, Pte. C. Plush, Pte. M. Chibnall, Pte. F. Bailey, Pte. C. Bailey, Pte. R. Tugwell. 3rd row: Pte. S. Lukeman, Cpl. R. Thorpe, Pte. R. Thiselton, Cpl. F. Cornish, Pte. J. Tiller, L/C H. Basham, Sgt. J. Adison, Pte. R. Coote. Front row: Q.M.S. A. Deacon, S/Sgt. M. Meyer, Capt. W. White, Lieut. R. Lewis, C.S.M. H. Halliday, Sgt. E. Lintern, Lieut. G. Harrold. Absent: A. E. Tregonning.

Hindmarsh River, Victor Harbour

1918, Photograph, PRG 1643/2/6

Three men in a rowing boat on the Hindmarsh River near Victor Harbour, South Australia, showing the landscape around the river.

George Frederick Jeffery

c. 1911, Photograph, B 62398

PORTRAIT: George Frederick Jeffery dressed in his Harbour-master's uniform at Victor Harbor.

Granite Island

Sweet, Samuel White, c. 1880, Photograph, B 9152

[General description] Seascape of Victor Harbor, with wharf, causeway and moored boats, looking from Granite Island. Steam cranes can be seen on the wharf and there is another one on the railway tracks on the left. The causeway and township can be seen in the distance.