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Old colonists 1836-1840 : John Broadbent

Duryea, Townsend, 1872, Photograph, B 8235/1/12D

John Broadbent arrived in South Australia in December 1836 on board the ship the "Buffalo". Postmaster, Cherry Gardens; cornfactor, Kadina; Methodist preacher.

Old colonists 1836-1840 : Robert Willoughby Bawden

Duryea, Townsend, 1872, Photograph, B 8235/1/1U

Robert Willoughby Bawden was born in Adelaide, South Australia to Elizabeth Bawden, nee Willoughby, and Hugh Bawden. Blacksmith and wheelwright, Kadina.

Old colonists 1836-1840 : Joshua Laffin

Duryea, Townsend, 1872, Photograph, B 8235/1/22ZC

Joshua Laffin arrived in South Australia in July 1840 on board the ship the "Fairlie". Farmer, Goolwa; hotel keeper, Wombat Hotel, Kadina.

Old colonists 1836-1840 : William Putland

Duryea, Townsend, 1872, Photograph, B 8235/1/25U

William Putland arrived in South Australia in December 1840 on board the ship the "Royal Admiral". Farmer, Yankalilla, Reynella, O'Halloran Hill, Kadina.

Old colonists 1836-1840 : Joseph Harwood Pankhurst

Duryea, Townsend, 1872, Photograph, B 8235/1/3F

Joseph Harwood Pankhurst arrived in South Australia in 1838. Labourer, Kooringa, Kadina, Gawler, Gladstone.

Old colonists 1836-1840 : Thomas Rusher Hart

Duryea, Townsend, 1872, Photograph, B 8235/1/6T

Thomas Rusher Hart arrived in South Australia in June 1839 on board the ship the "Sir Charles Forbes". Farmer, Clarendon; drapery storekeeper, Kadina.

South Australian pioneers 1840 : William Putland

Duryea, Townsend, 1872, Photograph, B 7865/9I

William Putland arrived in South Australia in December 1840 on board the ship the "Royal Admiral". Farmer, Yankalilla, Reynella, O'Halloran Hill, Kadina.

Woman with five children

Kadina Eclipse Company, S.A., c. 1885, Photograph, B 76977

Very faded image of a woman holding a baby and standing outside a stone dwelling. Alongside her are another four children.

Mineral claims at Wallaroo [cartographic material]/ by T.W. and C. Lyons

1861, Archival map/chart, C 312

Shows claims from Wallaroo to Kadina and surrounding areas. Various claims coloured but no explanatory key given. Compiled from official plans in the office of the Surveyor General and lithographed by T.W. and C. Lyons.

South Australia. Map of Yorkes Peninsula [cartographic material] / compiled from Government plans, and the most reliable private information that could be obtained

c. 1860, Archival map/chart, C 1021

Map of Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, compiled from government plans and the most reliable private information that could be obtained. Shows mineral sections of Black Point, Tipara, Wallaroo and Kulpara. Gives number, size and some dates for pastoral leases, as well as names of the lease holders. Includes some notes on natural features, text on sections formed into companies and sections not formed into companies. Coast and rivers hand coloured blue. Relief shown by hachures and pictorially.

Postcard collection of Emily Sophia Groom

c. 1900, Photograph, B 77156

A collection of postcards and greeting cards collected by Emily Sophia Groom (nee Grovermann) during the early 1900s, with many cards depicting early SA. The inscription inside the album states "E S Grovermann, Blyth, 29-5-1906". Emily Groom was born in 1877 at Clare and married Harry Rowe (his mother's surname) Groom in 1931. Emily was aged 45 when she married and did not have children of her own. Locations in the postcards include Blyth and Clare, Tanunda, Gumeracha, Victor Harbor and Port Elliot, Adelaide, North Adelaide, and assorted interstate and international locations [See individual records for selected digitised postcards, which may be viewed online].