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Vickers Vimy and crew in Darwin, Northern Territory

Smith, Keith Macpherson, Sir, c. 1919, Photograph, PRG 18/9/3/1A-22B

Small album featuring photographs of the Vickers Vimy and crew arriving at Fannie Bay airstrip in Port Darwin in December 1919, along with spectators gathered to view the event, and photographs of locations and businesses in Darwin, Northern Territory.

Photograph album of Asia trip

Smith, Keith Macpherson, Sir, 1922, Photograph, PRG 18/15/20/1A-46B

Album featuring photographs taken during a trip around Asia and finishing in Washington DC, comprising predominantly landscape and city views. See below for details.

Child's sketchbook and artworks

c. 1880, Artwork, D 8915(Misc)

Collection of an unknown child's artworks dated approximately to the late 19th century, comprising: a sketchbook detailing leisure activities; extremely detailed illustrations of houses, gardens, and a sailing ship, spread over multiple sheets, showing exterior views on one side, and interior views on the reverse; and a collection of hand-made paper dolls. The works are presumed to have been created by the same child, with the sketchbook likely created first, and the illustrations of houses created at a later date, as they show improvement in skill and technique. See below for details.

Ferries and Murray River views

Jackman, Frank Downer, c. 1953, Photograph, B 77271/1-13

Views of punts and Murray River

Iron Monarch and Iron Knob

c. 1947, Photograph, B 77273/1-26

Views of the BHP township, and mines and quarries, at Iron Knob and Iron Monarch, near Whyalla.

Photographs collected and taken by Dorothy Pyatt OAM

Pyatt, Dorothy, c. 1870, Photograph, B 77447/1-101

Photographs collected and taken by Dorothy Pyatt OAM in South Australia and Northern Territory

Photograph album of A. Simpson & Son factories

A. Simpson & Son, c. 1951, Photograph, BRG 9/39/1

Photograph album of A. Simpson & Son Limited showing offices, factories, machinery, processes and staff. See below for details.

Photographs relating to Holden exports

GM Holden Ltd, 1961, Manuscript, BRG 213/86/9

Photographs of EK export, HR export, LC export, HJ Kingswood shipment to China, HJ Belmont export, HX utility export, HX export leaving Woodville and the docks, HZ export to Trinidad, WB ute export, WB Statesman export, CKD crates, map of export countries and assembly operations of CKD Holdens at Surabaya.

Photographs of construction work at General Motors Holden plants : Woodville

GM Holden Ltd, 1955, Photograph, BRG 213/77/65/22-67

Photographs of buildings under construction at General Motors Holden factory at Woodville, including progress on steel frames, roofing, foundations, windows and internal fittings.

COVID19 restrictions March-April 2020

Battams, Samantha, 2020, Photograph, B 78535/34/17

Photos taken at West Lakes, Semaphore, Largs Bay, Hendon. 17. Exercise equipment, Largs Bay, 5th April 2020.

House at Hogs Road, Upper Mitcham

John S. Chappel Pty Ltd, 1961, Photograph, BRG 346/28/ROLEYJOHNS/1/6

Interior view of the rear of new house at Hogs Road, Upper Mitcham, designed by Roley Johns. Showing a large planter with indoor plants, the 'crazy paved' entrance hall and the view from the large sitting room windows.

Construction workers laying concrete pipe

c. 1920, Photograph, B 78559/7

Two men at work on a large reinforced concrete pipe in an open trench. One man has is sitting on the pipe with his hand in a bucket as another man stands behind him holding a trowel with a cigarette in his mouth. Two formally dressed men in three piece suits watch on from ground level, as two construction workers dressed more casually with rolled up sleeves leean on their spades behind them. Large leafy trees are in the background.

Photographic slides of the Festival of Arts

Everett, James, 1962, Photograph, B 78638/1-11

Colour slides of various floats that participated in the opening parades of the 1962 and 1964 Adelaide Festivals of Arts, and related images.

Album relating to early South Australia and Northern Territory

Daly, Dominick Daniel, c. 1867, Manuscript, PRG 1822/1

Photographs, sketches and news clippings pasted onto loose album pages, relating to the early history of South Australia and the Northern Territory. Includes captioned photographs of the kangaroo hunting expedition near Lake Albert in November 1867 at which Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, was a guest. Other items in the albums include photographs and copies of sketches of Aboriginal people, and images of surveyors and land selectors in the Northern Territory. A number of unrelated clippings and images have been added to the album, possibly by Daly's children.

Series 031b: Hamilton's Ewell Winery

Smith, D. Darian, c. 1930, Photograph, BRG 397/2/31B

Photographs of the Hamilton's Ewell Winery Ltd buildings and vineyards on Morphett Road at Glengowrie. Includes exterior and interior views, and montages of images used for advertising.

Series 065: Planes at Parafield Airport

Smith, D. Darian, c. 1927, Photograph, BRG 397/2/65

Photographs of planes and people at Parafield Airport, likely relating to an Aero Club event.

Series 050: City aerial views

Smith, D. Darian, c. 1933, Photograph, BRG 397/2/50

Aerial photographs of the city of Adelaide and surrounds, including distant views of suburbs surrounding the CBD.

Series 067: Murray River during 1931 floods

Smith, D. Darian, 1931, Photograph, BRG 397/2/67

Aerial photographs of the River Murray in flood. Views include Mannum and the Murray Bridge wharf precinct, and unidentified parts of the river which show the floodwaters encroaching on properties.

Series 068: Berri Growers Co-operative Distillery

Smith, D. Darian, c. 1930, Photograph, BRG 397/2/68

Aerial photographs of Berri Growers Co-operative Distillery Company, later Berri Co-operative Winery and Berri Estates, on the Old Sturt Highway. The property comprises a number of buildings, largely made of corrugated iron, and large tanks next to each building. A water tower is in the middle of the premises, and two small rectangular ponds sit behind the buildings.

Aldgate. Main street

c. 1909, Photograph, B 4404

[General description] The village of Aldgate, showing shops in the main street. A small boy stands in front of A. Woodgate's Dining Rooms which has large advertisements for Burford's Prize Number One Soap and Fry's Cocoa painted on its roof. Other houses can be seen in the distance amongst trees. [On back of photograph] 'Aldgate / 1909-16'.

Aldgate Institute Library

Fischer, G. L., c. 1937, Photograph, B 12752

Aldgate Institute Library. The small red brick building with rendered quoins and surrounds housed the library from 1937. The Depression caused the change of plan from a large Institute building to this small structure. The Aldgate Institute had formed in 1920 and operated a library during the years of 1921 - 1937 from the post office. The Wesleyan Church next to the Library is a simple austere nineteenth century stone building with dressed stone quoins and pointed arch windows. The building was used from 1884

Hills Cash Store, Aldgate

c. 1910, Photograph, B 41716

Hills Cash Store at Aldgate with large advertisements painted on its side wall.

Aldgate. Peterson Family

1907, Photograph, B 46639

The Peterson family consisting of parents Christian and Ellen with their ten children: Gertrude, Norman, Harold, Nellie, Ralph, Ivy, Cleve, Winnie, Leonard, Sylvia. See note in 'More info' relating to the family.

Stirling District Hospital

c. 1927, Photograph, B 4571

[General description] A nurse and two gentlemen, probably doctors, with a patient in a wheelchair in front of the Stirling District Hospital. The building has a large trellising arrangement in front of it. [On back of photograph] 'Reproduced in the "Register" July 30, 1927. Stirling District Hospital / 1927'.

Alice Springs

c. 1900, Photograph, B 9852

[General description] This faded sepia photograph shows Alice Springs township in its infancy. It has a few stone dwellings with outbuildings, stockyards and what appears to be a small tannery operation with a large number of hides hanging on fencing. The township is set amongst eucalypts and peppertrees.

Alice Springs

c. 1930, Photograph, B 14434

[General description] View of the main street at Alice Springs. There is a collection of iron buildings with wide verandahs on either side of the dirt road with a building on stilts seen in the distance. A large gum tree dominates.

Alice Springs

c. 1960, Photograph, B 16300/1

Panoramic view of Alice Springs : pt 1. The large building at right front is the high school, which opened in 1960.

Lindsay House & Park Angaston

Davis, H., c. 1875, Photograph, B 7317

Lindsay House and Park, near Angaston residence of George Fife Angas about 1875. George Fife Angas came to South Australia in 1851 and laid out the town of Angaston registering it in 1857. He was Chairman of the South Australia Company and later established the South Australia Banking Company (Bank of SA) He recruited emigrants in order to develop the colony. The photograph shows a large two storey house built on a small hill surrounded by lawns and tree studded parklands. In the foreground cattle are grazing and a rider is approaching on horseback.

Angaston

News and Mail, 1938, Photograph, B 10406

Portion of town of Angaston, December 1938. John Howard Angas looked after his father's interests in South Australia until the father's arrival in 1851. They became a prominent family settling in the Barossa Valley along with other large pastoral land holders.

Anlaby Homestead

c. 1936, Photograph, B 9519

[General description] Anlaby station was settled by Captain John Finnis in 1839 and acquired by the Dutton family in 1841. It is the oldest Merino stud in Australia and was renowned for its gardens with plants sourced from all over the world. This view shows the house and large shrubs with a rose garden in the foreground. [On back of photograph] 'Residence of H.H. Dutton at Anlaby / 1936 / Reproduced in News, November 17, 1936'.

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