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Papers relating to the Thomas family
Papers of the Thomas family, pioneers, comprising a diary, reminiscences and letters by Mary Thomas describing the voyage of the 'Africaine' in 1836 and life in the colony. Includes several letters by Robert Thomas, including a letter to the Colonial Office protesting offical deference to Aboriginal occupation, extracts from the diary of Mary Thomas, daughter, Margaret Robert and correspondence and a scrapbook of Sir Robert Kyffin Thomas, grandson. Also contains Thomas and Harris family wills, marriage certificates and associated papers, memorances, papers and a wax seal related to the Thomas family history, and versions of the Diary of Mary Thomas. Includes minutes and other papers associated with The Register newspaper. See Special Lists for details.
Alfred Clyde Allen : SUMMARY RECORD
Records of A.C. Allen comprising photographs from his childhood and working life. [Photos 14, 26 and 27 not digitised].
Photographs used in 'The Skies Remember'
Duplicate photographs and maps with notations on reverse, used in A. Grenfell Price's 'The Skies Remember' (Angus and Robertson Ltd. Sydney 1969). Includes comments regarding modifications to be made for entry into the book.
Photograph album of Morphettville army training camp and Mutooroo Station
Photograph album of Morphettville army training camp and Mutooroo Station scenes. See below for details.
Items commemorating the first England-Australia flight
Assorted items commemorating the first England-Australia flight, including menus and programmes of events in honour of Sir Ross Smith, Sir Keith Smith, and crew.
Messages of sympathy on death of Sir Ross Smith
Messages of sympathy regarding the death of Sir Ross Smith on 13 April 1922. Messages were received from H.R.H. The Duke of York, Hugh Trenchard, General Frederick Sykes, Baron Hayashi Gonsuke, Prime Minister William Hughes, General Harry Chauvel, General Birdwood, Air Vice Marshall Geoffrey Salmond, Prince Edward, and Marie Corelli.
Laser images
The series consists of photographic material, notes and newspaper cuttings relating to laser images created at the ANU, CSIRO, the Waite Institute, Flinders University, Quentron Optics Laser Art Laboratory South Australia, the Weapons Research Laboratory South Australia and the Veteran Administration Hospital biofeedback experimental laboratory Sepulveda California; specific images such as 'Space Trapeze' and 'Figures in space'; and many unidentified images created from the 1960s to the 1990s.
White Family home at Fulham
Members of the White family including Charles White (centre, holding the child's hand), and Eliza (nee White) and her husband John F. Mellor. The house built by John White at Reed Beeds using materials brought from England.
Tubercular Soldiers' Aid Society : SUMMARY RECORD
Records of the Tubercular Soldiers' Aid Society of S.A. Inc., comprising minutes of committee meetings, personal files, newspaper cuttings and photographs. Donation processed 1991 comprises photographs of Morphett Street premises; personal file on Miss Ella Cleggett (includes correspondence with artist John Dowie about her portrait 1965-1966); TB.S.A.S. street tags and badges, compiled by Dr Crowl; and papers relating to exhibition of furniture at David Jones in August 1986. Donation processed 2009 comprises subject files 1927-1998, alphabetically arranged and some by number of file, papers relating to estates and bequests. Includes letters from Donald Campbell after land speed attempt on Lake Eyre 1963, and Sir Hans Heysen, with his remarks on beauty of Flinders Ranges (box 32). Annual meetings reports and files, general meetings and Relief meetings; Women's Association; financial statements and records; correspondence and members' letters; papers relating to Angorichina Hostel, including plan (box 42); 'Australia Remembers' event 1995; membership records, office work book, list of widows and mothers; drawing of proposed work shop annexe in Brown Street, Adelaide (box 42), files of correspondence about badge days, report on history of Tuberculosis in SA (box 43), papers relating to Charity Direct Inc., sheet music to poems by A.C. Strempel; and Chamber of Commerce & Industry papers. Photographs from Box 39 (22 images) of tree planting at RGH Daw Park, 24 May 1995 have been digitised; do an Archival number search on SRG 422/Box39 for further details.
The 'Tom Fisher' in an unidentified harbour
The wooden ketch 'Tom Fisher'. 74 tons, in an unidentified harbour [wooden 2 mast Fore and Aft schooner (caption says ketch) 87 tons, ON89268. 83.4 x 20.0 x 7.2. Built 1884 William Beattie, Balmain, NSW for Sydney owners. Sold 1888 to Duncan Henry, registered Brisbane: 1901 GM Gummo (timber merchant, Thursday Island): 1910 to New Zealand owners who in 1912 sold her to French nationals at Tahiti].
The 'Alma Doepel' in an unidentified port
The wooden schooner 'Alma Doepel', 131 tons, in an unidentified port. [wood 3 mast schooner - no later than 1917, became auxiliary engined 150g. 117n tons. ON117640 105.0 x 26.6 x 7.6. Aux engine 40hp. fitted c. 1917. Then re-engined c.1937 and converted to twin screw during WW2 and these twin engines replaced about 1955. Converted into a barge in 1960 for limestone. Sold in 1976 to Melbourne owners for restoration as a sail training ship and efforts made to refit to her original condition. Was reduced from three masts to two masts fore and aft rig in 1937. Built 1903 F. Doepel, Bellinger River NSW. Owneers: F. Doepel reg. Sydney 1917. Rahra and Co. Ltd. (subsidiary of Henry Jones) reg. Hobart 1940 Alma Doepel P/L (Jones subsidiary) Taken by USA forced during WW2; returns to Henry Jones after the War, until sold for private use in 1976. Usually claimed to be the last square rigged sailing ship built in Australia.]
The 'Iris' dismasted at Port Adelaide
The wooden schooner 'Iris', 206 tons, dismasted at Port Adelaide [wooden 3 mast schooner, 206 tons. ON75304. 116.7 x 22.7 x 10.3. Built 1879 Robert Howson, Fremantle. Owners: John Batesman, registered Fremantle; Nov.1904 W Douglas; Dec 1906 to Melbourne owners' 1908 HA Edwards registered Hobart' 1913 W Robinson and LG Atwell, registered Melbourne. Wrecked Duck River, Tasmania June 1914. Inward bound from Port Adelaide. For at least the last ten years of her life was frequently in the South Australia-Tasmania trades].
Album for a friend
Album made up by Stan Ostoja-Kotkowski for his friend Beryl in 1958. All the pages are painted in watercolour by the artist as a background for his poems, written in black ink, with 18 photographs of the couple. The endpapers have red foil paper segments around painted areas. On the front page is an inscription to his friend by the artist: 'To Beryl with love, Stan, Stirling, August 1958'. Covered in padded leather with her initials 'B.S. 1958' in gold.
Shipping, Maryborough
View of ships in Maryborough Harbour in the 1880's [possibly showing 'Maria Ysasi = iron 3 mast barque, 396 tons, ON69299.133.1 x 27.0 x 15.0. Built 1871 William Watson, Sunderland. In 1873 acquired by SJ Lindsay of Melbourne and chartered to load for Maryborough, Queensland and is here photographed at the town wharves in Maryborough after her arrival which was in April 1874. Registered at Melbourne in 1874. Wrecked in the Philippines July 1876. Reference from 'The Port of Maryborough' by Parsons, May 1976]
Mellor family photographs
Letter to Eliza Mellor and photographs (with negatives) of the Mellor family.
The 'Seaflower' at Port Adelaide
The wooden ketch 'Seaflower', 53 tons, at Port Adelaide [wooden 2 mast schooner, 66 tons, ON93500, 75.2 x 21.4 x 6.5. Built 1886 Alfred Settree junior, Balmain NSW. Owners: Alfred Settree, registered Sydney; later Alfred Langley, registered Sydney. 1899 sold to Alfred le Messurier, registered Port Adelaide: September 1913 sold to Fremantle. Totally lost at Cape Leschinault, WA 19 Sept. 1923, with the loss of four of her crew of five. At the time she was the property of CR Cornish, WA Hancock and EB Stenning. NB: the name is usually written in two words although sometimes shown as one word. See 'Ketches of SA' by Parsons, p.88]
Shipping, Maryborough
Ships in Maryborough Harbour in the 1880's [possibly showing 'Maria Ysasi = iron 3 mast barque, 396 tons, ON69299.133.1 x 27.0 x 15.0. Built 1871 William Watson, Sunderland. In 1873 acquired by SJ Lindsay of Melbourne and chartered to load for Maryborough, Queensland and is here photographed at the town wharves in Maryborough after her arrival which was in April 1874. Registered at Melbourne in 1874. Wrecked in the Philippines July 1876. Reference from 'The Port of Maryborough' by Parsons, May 1976]
The 'Empreza' at Port Adelaide on the slip
The composite barque 'Empreza', 250 tons, on slip at Port Adelaide, 1870 [composite 3 mast barque,250 gross, 235 net tons. ON29939, 123.3 x 25.1 x 11.3. Built 1865 (8) Hedderwick and Co. Goven. Owners: R Singlehurst, registered Liverpool 1874 - D Bower and Jno Jones, registered Port Adelaide; Dec. 1877 D Bower and J Bickers; June 1891 EF Sandeman; June 1894 Aplin Brown and Co (Townsville); Dec. 1896 H Douglas registered Auckland; 1899 JJ Craig and partners; 1910 Union SS Co. of NZ Ltd., converted to a hulk and register closed. Hulk scuttled at the end of her useful life at Port Chalmers, off Taiaroa Heads NZ June 24, 1948]
The 'Empreza' at Port Adelaide
The composite barque 'Empreza', 250 tons, at Port Adelaide in 1870 [composite 3 mast barque,250 gross, 235 net tons. ON29939, 123.3 x 25.1 x 11.3. Built 1865 (8) Hedderwick and Co. Goven. Owners: R Singlehurst, registered Liverpool 1874 - D Bower and Jno Jones, registered Port Adelaide; Dec. 1877 D Bower and J Bickers; June 1891 EF Sandeman; June 1894 Aplin Brown and Co (Townsville); Dec. 1896 H Douglas registered Auckland; 1899 JJ Craig and partners; 1910 Union SS Co. of NZ Ltd., converted to a hulk and register closed. Hulk scuttled at the end of her useful life at Port Chalmers, off Taiaroa Heads NZ June 24, 1948]
Photographs of Irene Bonnin's time overseas
Photographs of Irene Bonnin's time spent overseas during World War I as an army nurse. Comprises two small albums and loose photographs, and feature Irene in nurse's uniform, army hospitals and related facilities and general tourist shots of Egypt and its people. See 'contents' for details of items.
The 'Otago' at Port Adelaide
The iron barque 'Otago', 346 tons, at Port Adelaide [iron 3 mast barque, 367 gross, 345 net tons. ON60463. 147.0 x 26.0 x 14.0 Built 1869 (10) A Stephen and Sons, Glasgow. Owners: Angus Cameron, registered Glasgow: Jan. 1872 Thomas Grierson and others, registered Port Adelaide. Nov. 1886 JL Simpson and partners: August 1900 CJF Gerber, registered Sydney 1902/1903 Huddart, Parker Ltd, who converted the vessel into a coal hulk and took it to Hobart. Sold in 1931 and abandoned on the bank in a bay of the Derwent. This is not the vessel made famous by reason of Joseph Conrad taking over as master and bringing it to Port Adelaide when her master (and part owner) died in Bay of Bengal]
'Kermandie' wooden schooner
'Kermandie' wooden schooner 343 tons [wooden aux. twin screw 4 mast schooner. 343 gross, 222 net tons. ON133495. 141.9 x 35.0 x 11.0. Built 1920 by CM McKay of Hobart (frequently reported to have been constructed on the Huon by McKay) eng. 70hp, later re-engined. Owners: Lune Timber and Trading Co. Ltd. Registered Hobart. Later Kermandie Shipping Co. Ltd. Kauri Timber Co. Ltd, registered Melbourne. Went aground on North Point Reef, 6 miles from Stanley ,Tasmania. On Sept. 6, 1952 and could not be refloated and she was sold to a scrap merchant who stripped her of everything valuable and demolished the wreck with explosives. Said to have been the last 4 masted sailing vessel in Australia when wrecked]
'Annie Taylor' and 'Handa Isle' at Edithburgh
'Annie Taylor' and 'Handa Isle' at Edithburgh. [Wooden 2 masted ketch, 73 tons, ON64374, 86.0 x 18.5 x 7.2 built 1871 Cape Hawke, NSW for owners in New South Wales. In December 1873 sold to Port Adelaide shipowners and then in 1888 transferred to port of Fremantle. Sold to foreigners about 1909 and broken up at Koepang, Timor in 1912.] A researcher disputes the caption - 'The only time that the 'Handa Isle' was at Edithburgh, indeed S.A. waters, between 1890 and 1910 was in January 1895. She left Port Adelaide for Edithburg on Jan 19 and sailed from there on the 23rd. On Jan 21 the ketch 'Lizzie Taylor' arrived at Edithburg to also load salt. Both vessels are named in a S A Register story on Jan 28. At this time the 'Annie Taylor' was in WA under WA ownership and was, according to her register, a topsail schooner. The photo is most definitely of a ketch.'
'Kermandie' wooden schooner
'Kermandie' wooden schooner 343 tons [wooden aux. twin screw 4 mast schooner. 343 gross, 222 net tons. ON133495. 141.9 x 35.0 x 11.0. Built 1920 by CM McKay of Hobart (frequently reported to have been constructed on the Huon by McKay) eng. 70hp, later re-engined. Owners: Lune Timber and Trading Co. Ltd. Registered Hobart. Later Kermandie Shipping Co. Ltd. Kauri Timber Co. Ltd, registered Melbourne. Went aground on North Point Reef, 6 miles from Stanley ,Tasmania. On Sept. 6, 1952 and could not be refloated and she was sold to a scrap merchant who stripped her of everything valuable and demolished the wreck with explosives. Said to have been the last 4 masted sailing vessel in Australia when wrecked]
'Rachel Thompson' wooden ketch
'Rachel Thompson' wooden ketch 16 tons [wooden 2 mast ketch, 16 tons. ON57577, 47.3 x 12.6 x 5.9. Built 1877 Tasmania. Ultimately turned to fishing and when owned by TM Burgess was wrecked on Victoria Rocks, Bass Strait, in July 1922 although her register was not closed until September 1949]
Photographs relating to the Billiatt family
Photographs relating to John William Billiatt and his family. Objects were photographed by S.C. Wilson for her publication on J.W. Billiatt. See "Contents" for further details.
'Senorita' steel barquentine
'Senorita' steel barquentine 324 tons [steel 3 mast schooner (insurance registered say brigantine) 350 gross, 324 net tons, ON112718, 144.2 x 27.15 x 11.25. Built 1893 Cumming and Ellis, Inverkeithing, for Norwegians who called her the same name. First registered British in 1900, to Auckland 1900 and sometime owned by the Northern Union Steam Boat Co. Ltd. Transferred to Sydney 1916 and owned by Sailing Ship Senorita Ltd. Register closed 1922 when vessel converted into a hulk]
'Edward' wooden brigantine at Port Adelaide
'Edward' wooden brigantine 270 tons [wooden 2 mast brig. 270 tons, ON119235, 121.3 x 26.8 x 12.3. Built 1874 Thronhjerms SB Co. Drontheim, Norway. Owners (Formerly owned in Drontheim), 1904 Kennedy Bros., registered Hobart later Edward Raylor (trading as Edward Sailing Ship Co.) totally wrecked Sept. 29, 1912 at Point Nepean Victoria when she dragged her anchors and drifted ashore]
'Waterwitch' wooden barque
'Waterwitch' wooden barque 236 tons [wooden hull, 3 mast barque, ON32270, 253 tons, later 236 tons. 95.6 x 22.6 x 17.4. 1860 -remeasured = 99.5 x 22.6 x 17.4. Built 1820 at the Royal Naval Dockyard, Pembroke (Milford Haven) and launched as a 10 gun brig-sloop, named HMS 'Falcon', renamed in 1838 when sold out of the service, and 'raised upon', i.e. her sides raised. Owners: formerly in London = Dec. 1853 - William Burgess and Alex. Learmouth (32) and George Sidney, registered Sydney; July 1855 - Charles Smith and SK Salting; March 1860 John McArthur, registered Hobart Town; July 1875 Alex McGregor and James Bayley; Aug. 1884 Alex McGregor. Register closed in 1917 with 'Broken up as in 1899'. See also 'Wrecks in Tasmanian Waters' by H O'May] [NB: Photograph is mounted back to front]
'Northern Chief' wooden barque
'Northern Chief' wooden barque 263 tons [wooden 3 mast barque, 287 gross, 274 net tons. ON87545, 125.0 x 27.4 x 12.2. Built 1886 Richard Mackay, Auckland. Altered October 1895 = 287 gross, 263 net tons. Owned in Auckland all her life and lastly by J Burns and Co. Ltd. Registered closed with 'Broken up' in January 1929]