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Milking plant in operation

c. 1920, Photograph, D 7939/P15(T)

A small boy with the milking machine equipment standing behind some cows in the milking shed on a Mount Gambier dairy farm.

Members of the Mount Gambier Plumpton Coursing Club with two greyhounds - Joker and Isinclass. From left: J.Keegan, J.Mulcahy, Fred Williams, H.Mills (judge on horsea0, W.M.McGregor, P.D.Arthur, J.Buchanan, E.Unger, R.Reid, A.Gooch. Mark Hayes as Slipper (in front).

E.F. Crouch

c. 1900, Photograph, D 7939/P23(T)

Portrait of E.F. Crouch, one-time president of the Old Residents' Association at Mount Gambier.

Mrs 'Rivoli' Smith

c. 1870, Photograph, D 7939/P28(T)

Portrait of Mrs Christina Smith who arrived at Rivoli Bay South in 1846. Born at Glenlyon, Perthshire, Scotland, Mrs. Smith arrived in Melbourne aboard the ship 'David Clark' in 1839 with her husband, James Smith. Both were missionaries and resided at Greytown, Rivoli Bay before moving to Mount Gambier in 1854. She was the author of the book 'The Booandik Tribe of South Australian Aborigines' written in 1880.

Players on Port Elliot bowling green

Sladdin, John, c. 1914, Photograph, PRG 280/1/10/104

Men engrossed in playing a bowls match on Port Elliot bowling green. [Identified by Searcy as being by Sladden, this is believed to be the work of Victor Harbor photographer, John Sladdin.]

Construction of Hindmarsh Valley reservoir

Sladdin, John, c. 1915, Photograph, PRG 280/1/38/244

Distant view of construction workers and horse drawn carts being used at the site of Hindmarsh Valley reservoir, South Australia.

Reservoir under construction

Sladdin, John, c. 1915, Photograph, PRG 280/1/38/245

Distant view of construction workers working at the site of the Hindmarsh Valley reservoir, South Australia.

Reservoir construction at Hindmarsh Valley

Sladdin, John, c. 1915, Photograph, PRG 280/1/38/274

Distant view of workmen with horse drawn carts constructing the Hindmarsh Reservoir, near Victor Harbor, South Australia.

The Racing Club, featuring the grandstand and racegoers

c. 1913, Photograph, PRG 280/1/3/28

The Racing Club, featuring the grandstand and racegoers.

Selected photos taken by Henry Hammond Tilbrook

Tilbrook, Henry Hammond, 1889, Photograph, PRG 180/5

Selected copy photographs taken by H.H. Tilbrook during his travels in the far north and South East of South Australia, the Glenelg River, Cape Northumberland and Portland, Victoria. [The Art Gallery of South Australia holds over 500 photographs and negatives created by Tilbrook.]

South African War

Gazard, John, c. 1899, Photograph, B 8822

This group, which departed for South Africa on the Medic on November 2nd, 1899 is part of the South Australian Mounted Rifles which comprised the first two contingents sent off to the South African war. The men, all wearing their slouch hats are seated in tiers. [On back of photograph] 'South African War / 1899-1902 / First South Australian Contingent / see Chronicle illustrations November 4th 1899'. The following information was provided by a researcher: "This photograph was taken at the Old Exhibition Grounds on the eastern side of Frome Road, Adelaide, in front of the city's original Exhibition Building. All South Australian contingents for South Africa trained here. The officers and men of the 1st South Australian Mounted Rifles, commanded by Captain F.H. Howland of Mount Gambier, are shown only a few days before embarkation on 2 November 1899. Their uniforms, manufactured at Lobethal, were brand new. 1SAMR comprised five officers and 121 NCOs and men, most with service in the South Australian Military Forces. Later contingents took many more men without military experience. 1SAMR was an infantry unit and only converted to a mounted infantry role in January 1900, a belated recognition by the British general staff that mounted infantry had to be the priority in a country as large as South Africa". [Information from Dr. Tony Stimson, President, South Australian Boer War Association]

[Map of south eastern South Australia from Coorong to Cape Northumberland] [cartographic material]

c. 1845, Archival map/chart, BRG 42/119/8

Map of Governor Grey's expedition to the south-east of South Australia in April and May 1844, and was drawn by Thomas Burr (Deputy Surveyor General). It shows places that Governor Grey names on this trip: Lake George and Lake Eliza (May 1), Lake Frome and Lake Bonney (May 4), and Mount Burr (May 7). It also marks the location of the expedition's depot (set up on May 3). Thomas Burr's journal of the trip was published in the 'Southern Australian', 18 June 1844, p. 3. Governor Grey's despatch to Colonial Secretary Lord Stanley, dated 22 June 1844, includes an expedition map and identifies fellow expeditioner Thomas Burr as it author (South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register, 10 October 1846, p. 3.). Burr likely made several map copies in 1844, of which this is one. This copy is stamped 'South Australian Company' with the date 4.6.45. Map place names: [Bonney's Water-holes], The Coorong, Granite Rock, Lacepede Bay, Ross's Creek, Mount Benson, Guichen Bay, Lake Hawdon, Lake Eliza, Lake George, Cape Martin, Rivoli Bay, Cape Lannes, Lake Frome, Lake Bonnery, Cape West Banks, Cape Northumberland, River Glenelg, Mount Schanck, Mount Gambier, Mount Burr, and the 'Overland Track to Port Phillip' (shown in red ink). Some parts of Coorong coastline missing from map. Ink and watercolour wash on paper, ink notation (paper cleaned but showing residual discolouration; backing sheet buckled where top left hand fragment of map is fixed). Scale 8 miles to 1 inch.

Photographs relating to Messenger Press : trains

Messenger Press, c. 1960, Photograph, B 72789/1-45

Photographs relating to transport - trains, created by Messenger Press, including South Australian Railways (S.A.R) locomotives.

Geological formations in South Australia

Greenlees, J., c. 1920, Photograph, B 69399

Photographs of various geological formations throughout South Australia including Hallett Cove, 'Reynella Beach', Sturt River, Onkaparinga River, Baroota, Blackwood, Myponga, Mount Breckan, Inman Valley, Cape Jervis, Mount Burr and Mount Gambier. Many of the photographs also appear in two albums entitled 'One Hundred Photographs Illustrating the Cambrian and Permo-Carboniferous Glacial Rocks of South Australia Collated and Mounted by Mr. J. Greenlees and Presented by him to the Royal Society of South Australia, September 1923'.(SRG 10/37)The minutes of the Society for September read 'A letter from the donor accompanied the album and also one from Professor Howchin through whom the presentation was made'.(SRG 10/1).

Photographs of Presbyterian buildings, activities and people.

Presbyterian Church of Australia. South Australian Assembly, c. 1865, Photograph, SRG 123/348/1-50

Collection of photographs of Presbyterian Church buildings activities and people.

Collection of scenes of South Australia, interstate and the United Kingdom

c. 1880, Photograph, B 71614/1-90

Collection comprising black and white (including two colour) glass plate lantern slides mainly of miscellaneous South Australian scenes and landscapes, ca. 1890-1930. The latter includes some interstate scenes of Victoria and Tasmania and also the United Kingdom. See CONTENTS for more information and details.

Family photograph album relating to the Kay family

Hubbe, Samuel Grau, c. 1870, Photograph, PRG 1415/35/3

Photograph album belonging to the Kay family featuring carte de visite portraits of relatives of the Kay family. In the back cover of the album is a miniature album, insterted inside the cover, which folds open to reveal more carte de visite photographs (see numbers 43- 48). Also includes loose photographs (49-51), and In memoriam cards for Annie Kay, wife of Robert Kay (died 1886), a cross stitch bookmark with 'Sunday' stitched across the centre, and a newspaper cutting about the unveiling of a portrait of Catherine Helen Spence at the State Library of South Australia.

Hotel, Caveton

c. 1889, Photograph, B 13441

Kitty Temple's old "hotel" at Caveton (near Mt. Gambier) - Hotel was sold and dismantled in 1907. This was never a licensed establishment, but was a well known sly grog shop on the road between Nelson and Mount Gambier during the 1860s and 70s

Hastings Cuningham

Johnstone, O'Shannessy & Co., 1883, Photograph, B 3075

Portrait of Hastings Cuningham, founder of Mount Gambier. Gambiertown as it was known in early years was founded by Hastings Cuningham who in 1854 subdivided a section of seventy seven acres for the establishment of a town. [On back of photograph] Hastings Cuningham April 1883. Founder of Mt. Gambier. See Talbots - South East.

Mrs John Livingston

Barroni & Co., c. 1890, Photograph, B 3380

[General description] Mrs Livingston is seated for her portrait, facing the camera. She is probably in mourning for her husband (who died in 1886) as she is wearing a widow's cap. Her name is Catherine (nee Steele) and she bore fourteen children one of whom, John (junior), became a politician and Member of Parliament. She and her husband owned a grazing property, Currutum near Mount Gambier. [On back of photograph] 'Mrs John Livingston. Arrived at Mt. Gambier about 1848'.

John Livingston

c. 1865, Photograph, B 3381

[General description] This portrait shows the face and part of the shoulders of the subject. John Livingston and his wife Catherine (see B 3380) had a family of fourteen children and owned a grazing property, Currutum near Mount Gambier. [On back of photograph] 'Mr John Livingston. Arrived at Mt. Gambier about 1848. Father of John Livingston, M.P. and Auctioneer'.

Album of photographs taken in South Australia and Victoria

c. 1924, Photograph, B 49383/1-67

A small collection of 67 photographs of unknown provenance. Photographs include the following: Exhibition building and Adelaide Town Hall taken at night, with outlines or the buildings lit by lights, warship thought to be HMS 'Repulse' which visited Adelaide as part of the Special Services Squadron World Cruise 1923-1924, navy parade in Adelaide, girls in bathing costumes pictured at the beach, visits to the Blue Lake at Mt Gambier, 'Dingley Dell', home of Adam Lindsay Gordon at Port MacDonnell, obelisk in memory of Adam Lindsay Gordon near the Blue Lake, Mount Gambier, waterfalls thought to be Mackenzie Falls in the Grampians, Victoria, view of the mansion, Rippon Lea in Melbourne, with several photographs of the glass houses and pigeon enclosure. Some of the photographs are faded and this album has not been digitised.

Album presented to the Revd A.G. Rawstorne

Sweet, Samuel White, 1886, Photograph, SRG 94/2/14

Volume 2 of two large photographic albums presented 'to the Reverend A. G. Rawstorne, M.A. / in memory of his three years of busy work / and bright useful life / in / South Australia / with much affection and gratitude / from / the Bishop and Mrs Kennion. / Bishop's Court / N. Adelaide / Jan. 11th 1886. / My pulses therefore beat again / for other friends that once I met / nor can it suit me to forget / the mighty hopes that makes us men. / Tennyson. In mem. cant.85'. The album contains 111 Sweet photographs, each with a brief caption. [Individual photos from the album can also be viewed by doing an ARCHIVAL NUMBER search on SRG 94/2/13. The second volume can be found at SRG 94/2/14.]

Army Officers, Happy Valley Camp

Smith, W. S., 1911, Photograph, B 23148

Group of Army Officers at a Happy Valley Camp, Easter, 1911, 10th Australian Infantry Regiment Militia, Adelaide Rifles. The Commanding Officer was Lt. Col. Le Mesurier. The man 6th from left in the back row is Hillary William Neale; third from the left in the middle row is Lieutenant Ernest Albert Warren. In the front row is W. R. McKeevor (on left), Francis Malcolm Blair, [a researcher suggests that this is actually Miles Fitzroy Beevor], Murray Robertson Coghill, Stanley Price Weir (later 10th Battalion AIF), John James Hughes (later 32nd Battalion, AIF), Leonard Watkins Bickle and Oldham. Major Edward Castle Oldham (who died at Lone Pine on 25 April 1915) is third from the right in the front row. Believed to' 'represent the 2 SA infantry milita battalions of the period 1902-1912 ie the 10th Australin Infantry Regiment (10th AIR) and the South Australian Infantry Regiment (SAIR)'.

Mary Ann Cooper

c. 1916, Photograph, B 41836

Portrait of a Mary Ann Cooper, shown wearing a lace trimmed wrapped dress.

Adam Lindsay Gordon

c. 1865, Photograph, B 10227

Adam Lindsay Gordon was born at Fayal in the Azores where his parents lived after retiring from service in India. The fine weather suited his mother's health. Gordon was sent to England for his schooling. He arrived in Adelaide when he was twenty and worked as a mounted policeman stationed at Mount Gambier and Penola. The Rev. Julian Tenison Woods influenced his love for writing poetry and he was known for his horsemanship. After he married he bought Dingley Dell, a cottage near Port MacDonnell, where he lived for the next four years. His reputation as a bush ballad poet continued to grow after his death.

Andrew Francis Hunter

Talma, c. 1847, Photograph, B 10360

Andrew Francis Hunter served with the Cape mounted police in South Africa and then went to the Victorian police joining Alexander and James at Calagandoo Station. Later he took up Moorak Station. He was killed by a bull at Mount Gambier in 1854.

Richard Anstice Perkins

Richards & Co., c. 1886, Photograph, B 11321

Richard Anstice Perkins aged 2, arrived in South Australia with his parents in 1840 on board "Java". He later helped his parents with their farm at Blackiston, near Mount Barker. He frequently saw bullock teams stuck in Hindley Street and often fed his own bullocks under the gum trees growing where the Arcade is now. He married Elizabeth Amelia Orr, they had nine children and lived at Mount Gambier. In 1877 he was made Overseer of the Government Experimental Farm at Mt Muirhead. He was an expert agriculturalist and well respected in the district. After his work at the Experimental Farm he took up land at Albacutya near Rainbow in the Mallee

Richard James Turner

c. 1890, Photograph, B 22987

Richard James Turner, Stipendiary Magistrate.

Photographs of South Australia

1871, Photograph, B 19714

This album was purchased by the State Library from an English bookseller in 1969/70, for 30 pounds sterling. It contains 75 sepia photographic prints, the vast majority of them taken in the mid-north region of South Australia, one third of them at or near Kapunda and Anlaby. Other places pictured are Blinman, Melrose and Mount Remarkable, Collingrove, Watervale, Yankalilla (one), Mount Gambier (two). There are a small number of unidentified landscapes and farms, and fourteen portraits of Aboriginal people, either singly or in groups, as well as two New Zealand [Maori] chiefs. There are about six photographic copies of drawings or paintings by Adam Gustavus Ball and possibly other artists. Several of the photos are known to be the work of one photographer, John Blood. On first pages of album: 'The requirements of art are three, an eye to see nature, a heart to feel nature, and a determination to follow after nature. Photographs collected by Francis Robert Davies, Chevalier of Malta, MRIN, MRDS. They come like shadows. 1871'.

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