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Overnight camp on Boolcunda Creek

Edmonds, John, 1953, Photograph, PRG 1386/3/438

Overnight camp on Boolcunda Creek between hawker and Carrieton, Easter Sunday, 1953. It shows a tent pitched beside a van in the dry creek bed.

Landing jetty at Broad Creek, South Australia

1914, Photograph, PRG 280/1/14/78

Water craft at the landing jetty, Broad Creek, north of Dry Creek, South Australia.

Sliding Rock Creek

Mitchell, Robert, c. 1897, Photograph, PRG 1610/11/130

Photograph of a gum tree standing in a dry creek bed with a rocky bank behind, identified as 'Sliding Rock Creek'.

Dry river bed, Northern Territory

Mengersen, Walter Henry, c. 1935, Photograph, B 70311/30

Buckboard vehicle being driven down into dry creek bed in the Northern Territory. Wooden crates are tied onto its running board, one advertising the Vacuum Oil Company.

Vehicle crossing a creek bed

Bray, Theodor, 1927, Photograph, B 64383/74

A vehicle crossing a dry creek bed, doubly exposed with an image of the bore at Charlotte Waters (B 64383/68).

Creek bed, Central Australia

Laver, Jack, 1924, Photograph, PRG 1365/1/236

View of dry creek bed in Central Australia.

Photographs relating to Messenger Press : trains

Messenger Press, c. 1960, Photograph, B 72789/1-45

Photographs relating to transport - trains, created by Messenger Press, including South Australian Railways (S.A.R) locomotives.

Views of the northern Flinders Ranges

c. 1890, Photograph, B 72084/1-46

Views of the northern Flinders Ranges: a collection of loose mounted photographs showing localities in the northern Flinders Ranges. All photographs have pencilled captions on the verso, and scenes include hills, ranges, landscape, waterholes, creeks, trees and vegetation on and around Moolooloo, Wirrealpa, Artimore and Wertaloona Runs in the Leigh Creek and Copley regions. Creeks, gorges and hills pictured include Windy Creek, Little Bob Mooney Creek, Aroona Water, Nepowie Creek, McKinlay Creek, Erengunda Creek, Owienagin Creek, Mora Water, Owienagin Gorge, Nepowie Gorge, Wertaloona Gorge, Cone Hill, Erengunda Hill, Mount Craig, Artimore Range, Wirrealpa Hill. For details of individual photographs see 'more information' tabs. Four images have been digitised from copies held elsewhere in the Archival Collections. The creator and the donor of these photographs is unknown, but many of the images bear resemblance to photographs compiled and collected by the Government Photographer, as seen in albums B 72087, B 72088, B 72089.

Drawings from the Frome expedition

Henderson, James, 1843, Artwork, B 2434/1-43

Album of sketches done by James Henderson. Most were done when Henderson was a member of Captain Frome's expedition to the north in 1843, and these sketches complement the diary of James Henderson 'Exploration of N. interior of S. Australia'; the remaining drawings are of scenes around Adelaide, Inman Valley and Rapid Bay. The drawings are generally of a larger landscape but most have a point of interest in the form of kangaroos, emus, people, etc. The expedition drawings are for the most part done in the album; a few smaller ones have been done on paper and inserted into the album later. All the watercolours were done on paper and then added to the album.

Photograph album 3

Krichauff, Frederick Charles, 1885, Photograph, B 71096/1-52

Collection of mostly silver albumen photographs, in an album. Believed to have been taken by F.C. Krichauff, who worked as a photographer in South Australia. The photographs include bush scenes, houses, waterfalls, group travelling through northern South Australia on camels, Aboriginal people, Victorian bush scenes and early Australian stamps [the photographs of stamps have not been digitised]. See 'contents' for details of individual photographs.

Views in South Australia : collection of black and white photograph negatives

Gordon, Raymond Hier, c. 1935, Photograph, PRG 1605/3/1-84

Negatives containing views of South Australian countryside and landscapes, including the Eyre Peninsula and Ungarra. Includes waterholes and dams, gum trees, houses, bridges, and people engaged with various activities such as tennis and fishing.

Renmark group

Reiners Studio, c. 1920, Photograph, B 75364

A group from the congregation of the Union Church in Tarcoola Street at Renmark West, built 1919-1920 on donated land on the south side of the Renmark West [primary] School. It is believed that it was taken in rlation to the laying of the foundation stones (see reports in the 'Murray River and Australian River Record', 14 November 1919, page 6 and 5 November 1920, page 5).

Miscellaneous selection of newspaper photos

News Limited, 1969, Photograph, B 76505

A collection of photos taken for the 'News' and 'Mail' newspapers during 1969. A selection have been digitised and may be viewed online; the remainder may be viewed inhouse. See contents for details of individual images.

South Australian scenes and activities 19

Heinemann, Elva, 1963, Photograph, B 71192/1074-1149

Part of a collection of slides taken by amateur photographer Elva Heinemann of South Australian scenes and activities, featuring the Adelaide Hills and Barossa Valley. Images 1092-1143 taken in 1969, images 1144-1149 taken in 1963. See 'contents' for details of individual images.

Cooper Creek crossing on the Birdsville Track

Bull, Jean, 1968, Photograph, B 69251/36

Dry watercourse identified as the Cooper creek crossing on the Birdsville Track.

Building of dam wall across Dingo Creek

Reeve, Paul, 1941, Photograph, B 74499

View of a dam wall above a dry, rocky creek bed, with a man in the middle distance. Identified on the back of the photo as 'building of dam wall across Dingo Creek on tablelands in Koolimulka paddock. Early 1941. Dinny Nash the camp cook'.

Pygmalion Dam on Dingo Creek

Reeve, Paul, 1941, Photograph, B 74500

Distant view of a dam in a dry, rocky creek landscape. Identified on the back of the photo as 'Pygmalion Dam on Dingo Creek. April-May 1941'.

Photos taken by Messenger Press of government, business and residential sites in the north-eastern suburbs of Adelaide

Messenger Press, c. 1940, Photograph, B 75307/1-48

A collection of photographs by the Messenger Press taken at locations around the north-eastern suburbs of Adelaide. According to brief paperwork attached to the photos, many were taken for the Standard Messenger newspaper. Where more than one date has been added to a photo, one of the dates may refer to when it was published in the newspaper. See 'contents' for details of items.