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A passenger wagon crossing a creek
A horse-drawn wagon carrying several passengers reaching dry land after crossing a creek in South Australia.
Flinders Ranges
Flinders Ranges - dry creek bed.
Port Adelaide
Commercial Road, Port Adelaide, looking south from the river. The building on the right is the Customs House which was constructed in 1878-79 to the design of the Colonial Architect George Thomas Light. The South Australian Government collected taxes on goods imported from other Australian states and from overseas. The building has cut stone dressings and cornices and is constructed from Dry Creek stone with dressings of Sydney white freestone. It boosts a prominent tower with a mansard roof, lookout and a flagpole. The tower faces the Port River. On the other side of Commercial Street stands the Commercial Hotel which was built in 1841 and rebuilt after a fire in 1857. JC Addison was the proprietor at the time of this photograph.
Customs House, Port Adelaide
Customs House, Port Adelaide was constructed in 1878 following demolition of the timber customs house which stood on the same spot since 1840. The two storey building was designed in the Victorian Italianate style and constructed from Dry Creek bluestone with Sydney white freestone dressings. It featured a 70 foot high observation tower
Thomas R. Bowman
[General description] Head and shoulders portrait of Thomas R. Bowman in three quarter view. He was one of four brothers who came to South Australia in 1838 after a few years in Tasmania. With his brothers he was a pioneering pastoralist aquiring properties in the Dry Creek area, later in the mid north at Werocata, Crystal Brook and Martindale. They were reputedly very hard workers, doing much of the station work themselves. Thomas was at the Crystal Brook run for twenty years. He was a generous philanthropist giving large donations to charities in the year before his death.
"The Red Devil"
The "Red Devil". a Bristol monoplane owned and flown by Captain Harry Butler. This photograph was probably taken at Dry Creek in 1919 at the time the monoplane was assembled. Captain Harry Butler returned to Australian after receiving the Air Force Cross in World War I. With his monoplane "Red Devil" he made a water crossing from Adelaide to Minlaton in 27 minutes
Adelaide Club
Adelaide Club, North Terrace, Adelaide. Georgian in style, the front portion of the building is Dry Creek stone with brick quoins and window-surrounds. In 1891 there were large additions to the rear. Since then the front balcony has been reduced in length and the brickwork painted.
Adelaide Club
Adelaide Club, North Terrace was built in 1863 by builder William Lines. Architect was EA Hamilton and the building was made from Dry Creek stone and was decorated with quoins and window surrounds.
Adelaide Club House
Adelaide Club House, North Terrace building finished in 1864. It was built of Dry Creek stone with brick quoins and window surrounds. In this photograph the balcony extends across the width of the building.
Sheep Sale Yards
Sheep sale yards, situated near the corner of North and West Terraces immediately north of Acre 1, July 1913. This photograph was taken immediately after the yards had been superseded by the new abattoirs at Dry Creek.
Warren's Gorge near Quorn
View of Warren's Gorge, near Quorn, showing the dry creek bed.
Railway transport: 520 class
Dry Creek - Gawler Race Special at unidentified location.
Railway transport: 700 class
North Adelaide - Dry Creek transfer.
Railway transport: 720 class
Sheep train at Mile End, en route to Dry Creek, 14 December 1952.
Railway transport: P class
Goods train at unidentified location. A researcher believes that this photo, judging by the buildings in the background, is taken from the city end of Dry Creek Yard probably from the Cormack Rd Railway crossing.
Vehicle crossing the Finke River
A buckboard vehicle crossing a dry creek bed of the Finke River. (See B 64383/84 for details of vehicle.).
Vehicle crossing the Finke River
A buckboard vehicle crossing a dry creek bed of gleaming white sand on the Finke River. (No rain had been received here since 1921.).
Bridge at Morialta Falls Park
View of a wooden bridge over a dry creek at Morialta Falls Park.
Tom Wright of Dry Creek has been of service to the Scout Movement for over 25 years. 14th February 1990.
Young people building a wooden bridge across a small dry creek. 5th June 1991.
Powder magazines
Powder magazines: one of two views, duplicates of numbers 128 and 129, vol. 2.
Murray Park
A rural scene at Murray Park near Magill. A dried creek bed is near the road with the Adelaide Hills in the background.
'At Gumeracha' - Rural scene
A cow grazing near a dry creek at Gumeracha north east of Adelaide.
Panoramic view of countryside in outback South Australia
Panoramic view of countryside in outback South Australia with a dry creek bed in the foreground; exact location not known.
A rocky gorge
A group of picnickers resting in a dry creek bed going through Ferguson's Gorge, on Moolooloo Station, north east of Parachilna. (Information provided by Lesley Slade].
South Australian Harbor's Board staff
Staff members of the South Australian Harbor's Board; Arthur Searcy is seated second row, fourth from right. The gentleman with a beard seated in the front row with knees raised and holding his legs is George Halsey, keeper of the powder magazine at Dry Creek for many years, other names not known.
Francis Birtles on a journey in South Australia
Francis Birtles standing by his motor vehicle in a dry creek bed during a record breaking cross country journey in northern South Australia; exact location not known.
Powder magazines
Powder magazines: one of two views, duplicates of numbers 128 and 129, vol. 2.
Mr and Mrs Claude Saunders, an informal view taken in a garden
Mr and Mrs Claude Saunders, an informal view taken in a garden. Mrs Saunders once lived near Dry Creek.
Premises of abattoirs showing a large beamed area used for sheep hanging
Premises of abattoirs showing a large beamed area used for sheep hanging.