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Lady Mawson with her grandchildren

c. 1953, Photograph, B 61212

PORTRAIT: Lady Mawson with her grandchildren Gareth Thomas (son of her daughter Patricia Thomas) on her lap, and Andrew and Paquita McEwin (children of her daughter Jessica McEwin) standing beside her.

Lucy Coleman on her ninetieth birthday outside Wittunga farm house

Fulford Bros. (Firm), 1922, Photograph, B 70984/24

Lucy Coleman on her ninetieth birthday seated outside her son-in-law Edwin Ashby's office window. She lived the last twenty years of her life at Wittunga, the home of her fifth and youngest child Esther Ashby. She had arrived in the colony of South Australia in 1839 on the 'Anna Robertson' when she was seven years old, the youngest of eleven children, with her parents Hannah and Joseph May. Photograph by Fulford Bros, 118 King William Street, Adelaide.

Joanna Barr Smith at her writing desk

Hammer & Co., c. 1908, Photograph, B 64340

PORTRAIT: Joanna Barr Smith photographed sitting at her desk in her writing-room at 40 Angas Street, Adelaide. Her foot cushion, placed over the the Hammersmith carpet, is embroidered with her initials. The chairs are in Morris & Company's 'Lodden' design. According to C. Menz in his 'Morris & Company: Pre-Raphelites and the Arts & Craft Movement' (1994), the wallpaper is not a Morris design.

Mrs Gilbert with her son

c. 1881, Photograph, B 72997

A woman with a child on her lap. A contemporary inscription on the back reads 'Mrs Thomas Gilbert and their son Walter Havelock Gilbert to her father and Mother'. A later hand identifies her as 'Sarah Gilbert nee White born Yarlington, Somerset 1842' and goes on to to list her subsequent children and their dates of birth. See also B 72996 and B 72998.

Ellen Saunders and her caravan

Saunders, Arthur, c. 1970, Photograph, B 74130/14

Ellen Saunders pictured outside her caravan which is shown installed at a camping area, complete with its own gas bottle and canvas extension structure attached alongside the caravan. Dinkie the dog is at her feet.

Julia Gillard in her back yard in Altona, Melbourne

Sellick, Robin, 2006, Photograph, B 78534/1

Photographic portrait of former Prime Minister Julia Gillard in her back yard in Altona, Melbourne.

Natasha Stott Despoja with her Mother, Shirley Stott Despoja

Sellick, Robin, 1998, Photograph, B 78534/3

Photographic portrait of Natasha Stott Despoja with her Mother, Shirley Stott Despoja, in Shirley's living room, Adelaide.

Mrs Ene-Mai Reinpuu with her bicycle

c. 1950, Photograph, B 58470

GENERAL: Mrs Ene-Mai Reinpuu with her bicycle, her only means of transport after her arrival in Australia from Estonia.

Wendy on her trike

Rogers, Mick, 1958, Photograph, B 69654

Wendy Rogers in the front yard of her Twelth Avenue, Woodville North, home with her toys. Wendy is on her red tricycle, with Anne from across the road in the blue tin car; Jedda the doll is in the toy pusher with the doll's pram behind that. Taken in early spring, 1958, by Wendy's father.

Child with her dolls house

c. 1931, Photograph, B 56981/225

A small girl with her dolls house in the garden, and her mother beside her.

The 'Cutty Sark' under sail in her prime

c. 1880, Photograph, PRG 1373/19/23

The composite ship 'Cutty Sark', 962 tons, under sail in her prime [composite ship, 963 gross tons. ON63557. 212.5 x 36.0 x 21.6. Built 1869 (11) Scott and Linton, Dumbarton. Owners John Willis and Son, registered London. (The shipbuilders went bankrupt in the course of constructing the ship and it was completed by Denny Bros) Sold 1895 to Portuguese and renamed Ferreira. Bought in 1922 by Captain Dowman of Falmouth, named and restored and re-rigged to her original sail plan. Presented to the Thames Nautical Training College in 1938. Subsequently installed in a dry dock at Greenwich on permanent display. This vessel has probably had more written about her than any other sailing ship, including 'The Log of the Cutty Sark' by Lubbock, see for full details up to 1938. The name is taken from a poem by Burns - Tam O'Shanter and the best translation appears to be 'short chemise'. Built for the China trades and considered to be among the world's fastest sailing ships. she was transferred to the Australian trades in 1885-6, trading mainly to Sydney, until she made a few voyages to Brisbane in the 1890's prior to being withdrawn and sold foreign. See 'The Log of the cutty Sark', 'Colonial Clippers', 'China Clippers'].

Helen Waterhouse with her dogs

Brooker, William Charles, c. 1913, Photograph, PRG 1316/3/57

Helen Waterhouse, wearing a long coat with fur collar, stands beside her dogs at Mount Lofty House; a foxhound stands up to take something from her hand and a retriever stands at her feet.

A ballerina balancing on her toes

1920, Photograph, PRG 280/1/26/149

A ballerina dressed in her stage costume photographed balancing on her toes, she is described by Searcy as 'a famous dancer' but her name is not supplied.

Ellen Saunders in her Hampstead Gardens home

Saunders, Arthur, c. 1980, Photograph, B 74130/9

Ellen Saunders in her Hampstead Gardens (fibro cement) home, kitchen.

Violet Edith Frost (nee Murray) with parents on her wedding day

1954, Photograph, PRG 1696/8/13

Digital copy of a black and white photograph of Violet Edith Frost (nee Murray) [centre left] on her wedding day, posing with her bridesmaid Shirley Grubb (nee Robinson) [left] and her parents, Fred and Jean Murray (nee Bottroff), with Holden wedding cars in view. Photograph taken on Archie Cameron's farm, Oakbank.

Lesley Horsfall at her coming-out dance

Grimmett, Vic, 1961, Photograph, PRG 1662/10/466/1

"Charming Swedish crown topping her embroidered satin dress was worn by Lesley Horsfall (Second from right) at the coming-out dance her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Horsfall, of Belair, gave for her at the Mount Osmond Country Club. Guests with Lesley are, from left, Diana Kentish, Graham Cornell, and Peter Ryan." Australian Women's Weekly, 7 June 1961, page 17.

View of The Opera Theatre on Grote Street

c. 1977, Photograph, B 78177

View of the front of The Opera Theatre, formerly and later known as Her Majesty's Theatre, on the corner of Grote Street and Pitt Street.

Wendy Schaeffer at her Echunga property

Sellick, Robin, 1998, Photograph, B 78534/2

Photographic portrait of Olympic equestrian Wendy Schaeffer at her Echunga property. Wendy won a team gold medal in eventing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. She was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 2002.

Valerie Pastro with her toy koala

c. 1947, Photograph, B 78539

Valerie Pastro (nee Allan) holding Keiffee the Koala when she was a young girl. The toy was given to her by her father Keith Allan on his return from World War II to Hamilton, Victoria, for her third birthday. The Rabbit fur koala is held in the Children's Literature Research Collection and more information about it can be found at https://www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au/record=b3223072~S1.

Grote Street

State Library of South Australia, 1963, Photograph, B 15297

Grote Street, north side, 6 December 1963. Right side of Her Majesty's Theatre abuts Pitt Street; frontage is 29 yards. This theatre was built in 1913 and has a number of name changes in its history - Princess Theatre, Tivoli Theatre, Prince of Wales Theatre, Her Majesty's Theatre and the Opera Theatre. After a revamp it is expected to seat 1,500 by 2020. The original theatre was designed by architects Williams and Good and built on land previously used by market gardeners and stallholders at the City Market to park their carts and feed their horses