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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.

Mount Barker Boys at the Front

c. 1916, Photograph, B 72452

Photographs of faces of Mount Barker men who enlisted for service in World War One, with a photo of a Lieutenant Laurie at the top, printed on a postcard. Their names are: B. Westley, A. Evans, S. Westley, T. Murphy, T. Stokes, H.D. Neate, L.E. Cook, J. Johnson, A.L. Cook, L. White, N. Cameron and L. Scott. (see 'History' note for further details.).

Concrete road bridge

c. 1918, Photograph, PRG 280/1/9/295

A reinforced concrete road bridge in South Australia. According to a researcher this is the Millbrook bridge or the now demolished bridge near Chain of Ponds built ca.1916 to carry the deviation of the road to Gumeracha around the Millbrook Reservoir, finished in 1918. Another researcher believes 'it was built by the S.A. Reinforced Concrete Company, an enterprise which had been estbalished by [Sir] John Monash in 1906. (See Chronicle, Saturday 13 July 1918, pp.24-25)'.

Photographs of the Adelaide Hills, and locations in Queensland and Western Australia

Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. South Australian Branch, c. 1910, Photograph, SRG 67/23/1-31

Several pages from an Album of photographs, containing views of the Adelaide Hills, Barossa Reservoir, and locations in Perth, Brisbane, Cairns, Newcastle and Thursday Island. Selected images have been digitised; request album to view complete collection.

Tracing of portion of the Torrens Special Survey [cartographic material]

1854, Archival map/chart, BRG 42/119/40

Tracing of map of sections in the Torrens Special Survey [Hundred of Talunga], annotated to show purchases of Sections 6264, 6266-6268 by the South Australian Company on 22 June 1854, shown in green. These sections are located south east of Gumeracha, between Kenton Valley and Mount Torrens. Ink and watercolour on paper, ink notation. Scale 2 inches to 1 mile. Stamped 5.12.[18]54. (Original mounted on same sheet as maps 37-39).

[Tracing showing sections in Hundreds of Yatala, Para Wirra and Talunga(part)] [cartographic material]

n.d., Archival map/chart, BRG 42/119/63

Tracing of map showing scattered sections across the northern areas of the County of Adelaide including (1) the Hundred of Yatala, north and west of Tea Tree Gully; (2) various localities in the Hundred of Para Wirra, including sections south of Paracombe and Millbrook, and around the Kersbrook area; and (3) the Hundred of Talunga, including sections in the Kenton Valley area south of Gumeracha. Ink and watercolour on paper, ink notation. No scale given. Numbered 12) in top left hand corner. Stamped 5.12.[18]54. (Original on same sheet as maps 61-62).

Adelaide views album

Sweet, Samuel White, c. 1870, Photograph, B 72445/1-80

Album of photographs of Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney, many of them taken by Samuel Sweet (images 1-80). Images 81-82 of Ceylon, nos. 83-95 of Malta, 96-101 of Windsor Castle and St George's Chapel, Windsor, 102-103 of Oxford, and 104-107 of English coastal town/s. Items 108-111 (loose in back of album) are prints from clasical scenes. Attribution for the photographs are as follows: images 1-50, 73 are by Sweet; images 77-79, and possibly 80 are by Charles Bayliss. Overseas scenes (images 81-111) have not been copied.

Sweet Collection folders, volume 6

Sweet, Samuel White, c. 1885, Photograph, B 72483/6/1-50

Volume 6 in a collection of photographs by Captain Samuel Sweet, arranged in six folders. Each photograph in Folders 1-5 and some in Folder 6 have separate records in the catalogue and have been previously digitised. By searching on Collection: Sweet Collection, these records can be drawn together. Additional photographs in Folder 6 can be viewed by taking the browse album link attached to the record B 72483/6.

Reports received from W.B. Randell

South Australian Company. South Australian Office, 1838, Mixed material, BRG 42/47

Reports received from W.B. Randell (in general in charge of the Company's agricultural and dairy operations) at Park Farm and Gumeracha.

Research paper on Edward Angus Hamilton along with photographs

Sherrin, A., c. 1985, Mixed material, D 7683/1-199(T)

Research paper on Edward Hamilton together with a brief biography, photographs of buildings with which he was associated, a copy of the article on Edward Hamilton which was reproduced from the September 1985 edition of heritage periodical and a photocopied newspaper article about a mansion to be demolished at Unley. Details for the photos (D 7683/2) are as per brief captions on back of photographs.

Bridge

Sweet, Samuel White, c. 1880, Photograph, PRG 742/5/23

Bridge in Adelaide Hills, similar to Gumeracha bridge.

General store at Echunga

c. 1928, Photograph, B 74632

View of a Shell Company petrol tanker parked in front of Colebatch's general store at Echunga. On the back is ' "on view" Dad, Mum, Edith, "Shell driver" '. It is believed that 'Dad' is A.N. Colebatch since his second daughter was Edith (and both Edith and her sister Violet were married in Echunga in 1831 and 1935 respectively). 'Mum' was obviously his wife. According to a newspaper article in 'The Mount Barker Courier and Onkaparinga and Gumeracha Advertiser, Thursday 8 July 1937, page 4, A.N. Colebatch owned the store for 11 years (from approximately 1923 to 1934).