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South Australian views: album

Sweet, Samuel White, c. 1880, Photograph, B 72111/1-189

Album titled 'South Australian views', with some photographs attributable to the photographer Captain Samuel White Sweet. Views include street scenes in Adelaide, the Botanic Gardens, Victoria Square, Mitcham, Glen Osmond, Morialta, Waterfall Gully, Clarendon, Eden Hills, Glenelg, Port Elliot, Naracoorte Caves, Mount Gambier and Lakes, Melrose, Broken Hill mines and River Murray. See 'more information tab' for further details of individual photographs. A small collection of loose photographs was found in the back of this album. To see details of these, go to B 72112/1-35.

Adelaide and the Adelaide Hills: album of views

Sweet, Samuel White, c. 1875, Photograph, B 72115/1-31

Album of views taken in Adelaide and the Adelaide Hills, with some photographs attributable to the photographer Captain Samuel White Sweet. Views include street scenes in and around Adelaide showing prominent buildings and the Botanic Gardens, Glenelg and Port Adelaide, as well as Norton's Summit, Waterfall Gully, Morialta, and Bridgewater in the Adelaide hills.

North Terrace

Sweeney, Robert, 2011, Photograph, B 72148

High rise buildings along the south side of North Terrace, Adelaide.

Sturt Street Studio

Sauer-Thompson, Gary, 2011, Photograph, B 72158

Sturt Street Studio on the south west corner of Sturt Street and little Sturt Street.

Views in South Australia : album

c. 1870, Photograph, B 72166/1-48

Album of views in and around Adelaide, including North Adelaide, Morialta, Waterfall Gully, Norton Summit. Photographs of several historic houses, Montefiore, Fairfield, Springbrook and Collingrove, cattle and prize winning sheep are included. Some photographs are attributable to photographers, Samuel White Sweet, Townsend Duryea and H. Davis. Some of the photographs are duplicated elsewhere in the Pictorial Collection.

Adelaide

Sauer-Thompson, Gary, 2011, Photograph, B 72174

View to the north from above Currie Street to buildings on North Terrace and the Hyatt Regency hotel.

Maughan Uniting Church

Sauer-Thompson, Gary, 2011, Photograph, B 72175

A view of Maughan Uniting Church from an elevated position on the northern side of Franklin Street.

Adelaide views

Sweet, Samuel White, c. 1868, Photograph, B 45002/1-77

An album of photographs by S.W. Sweet, featuring scenes in and around Adelaide.

King William Street looking north

Sweet, Samuel White, c. 1885, Photograph, B 43015

Looking north along King William Street from Victoria Square, with the Post Office (on left), Treasury Buildings and Adelaide Town Hall in view.

King William Street looking south

Sweet, Samuel White, c. 1885, Photograph, B 43016

Looking south along King William Street from the corner of Currie Street, with view of the eastern side of King William street, partial view of Bank of Adelaide building on right, post box, gas street lighting and telegraph poles.

Adelaide Town Hall dinner

Sweet, Samuel White, 1883, Photograph, B 43017

The interior of the Adelaide Town Hall with people seated for a banquet. The image shows detail of the table settings and decorations and view of the pipe organ. The South Australian Advertiser, 2 November 1883: page 4 notes that Captain Sweet took a photograph of the interior of the Town Hall during a luncheon for the laying of the foundation stone for the Adelaide Young Men's Christian Association, with Hon. Alexander Hay, President of the Association in the chair. His wife, Agnes Grant Hay nee Gosse, is seated two seats to Alexander's right and Charles Goode is seated four seats to his left.

Balcony of Town Hall

Sweet, Samuel White, c. 1885, Photograph, B 43018

From balcony of Town Hall looking north along King William Street, with view of Town Hall balcony pillars and balustrading.

From balcony of Town Hall looking south

Sweet, Samuel White, c. 1885, Photograph, B 43019

From balcony of Town Hall looking south along King William Street, with view of Town Hall balcony pillars and balustrading. An identical photograph is at B 72111/27.

Bethlehem Lutheran Church

Sweet, Samuel White, c. 1885, Photograph, B 43020

Bethlehem Lutheran Church. Flinders Street north side.

King William Street looking north

Sweet, Samuel White, c. 1885, Photograph, B 43021

Looking north along King William Street from the roadway through Victoria Square, with the Post Office (on left), Treasury Buildings and Adelaide Town Hall in view.

King William Street looking north

Sweet, Samuel White, c. 1885, Photograph, B 43022

Looking north along King William Street from Victoria Square, with the Post Office (on left), Treasury Buildings and Adelaide Town Hall in view. Horse drawn cabs are waiting in the street.

General Post Office, Adelaide

Sweet, Samuel White, c. 1885, Photograph, B 43023

General Post Office Adelaide, with view of garden and ironwork perimeter fence in Victoria Square.

General Post Office, Adelaide

Sweet, Samuel White, c. 1885, Photograph, B 43024

General Post Office Adelaide, view of facade from corner of Victoria Square.

Rundle Street, north side

Freeman, George, c. 1882, Photograph, B 72269

Rundle Street , north side showing no. 14, R.N. Gault & Co., drapers and importers, no. 16, J. McKirdy, Seedsman with Melbourne Photographic Company (George Freeman, manager) on first floor (see studio glass windows), and four storey warehouse of Donaldson, Andrews and Sharland next door. On other side of this building is site for James Marshall & Co.'s new building following fire which severely damaged the earlier two-storey premises in 1882. (See B 2504 for a nearly identical image of this view, with James Marshall's earlier building showing blackened facade after fire. Telegraph poles had been erected on Rundle Street by time of later image.).

Supreme Court building, Adelaide

Sweet, Samuel White, c. 1885, Photograph, B 43026

Supreme Court building, King William Street, Adelaide (Sweet Adelaide 84).

Supreme Court building, Adelaide

Sweet, Samuel White, c. 1885, Photograph, B 43027

Supreme Court building with a horse tram standing in front, taken from eastern side of Victoria Square.

Victoria Square looking south

Sweet, Samuel White, c. 1885, Photograph, B 43028

Eastern side of Victoria Square, looking south (Sweet Adelaide 325), from the top of the Treasury Building. King William Street divides the two sides of the square. Wakefield Street divides the garden into halves which are fenced with iron pailings and contain benches and shrubs. The Law Courts and Supreme Court Buildings can be seen at the southern end of the square and the Torrens Building is on the eastern side. Another copy is in Sweet Collection folder 3.