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Near Swan Reach

c. 1950, Photograph, B 61020/173

No. 301. Near Swan Reach with Paddlesteamer Marion.

Album of photographs around South Australia

c. 1923, Photograph, B 45085

Album of 155 photographs of Quorn, River Murray, motorcycles, cars, camels, Myponga, Murray Bridge, Flinders Ranges, Cape Jervis, Normanville, Copley, Lyndhurst, motorcycle polo, Harley-Davidson Motor Cycle Club of South Australia Sellicks Beach and Coorong. "Albert H. Elston" -- verso cover.

Views of SA, WA, Vic & NSW : P.S. Marion

c. 1925, Photograph, B 58973/104

P.S. Marion leaving Mannum for Morgan.

Overland Corner

Laidlaw, Lyndley Hope, c. 1918, Photograph, B 69145

View of a home and other buidlings beside a flooding Murray River.

Overland Corner

Laidlaw, Lyndley Hope, c. 1918, Photograph, B 69146

Three members of the Laidlaw travel party with their Buick car beside the flooded Murray River.

Mannum-Adelaide pipeline under construction

c. 1955, Photograph, B 70291

The Mannum to Adelaide pipeline under construction, with two machines lifting lengths of concrete pipe into place.

Australian Olympic Crew

c. 1924, Photograph, B 70509

The 'Murray Bridge Eight', pictured on the water. This rowing team was known as the 'Cods' and represented Australia at the Olympics in Paris, 1924. From left: R.A.Cummings (cox), W.H. Pfeiffer (stroke), F.M. Cummings (7), W.M. Sladden (6), A.E. Tauber (5), A.V. Scott (4), W.H. Jarvis (3), E.D. Thomas (2), A.E. Graetz (bow). Emergency crew (not pictured) were F. Wendt and G. Tucker, with C.A.M. West (manager) and E.W. Higgs (coach).

Narcain, (left to right) Alex Murray, Toby Murray, Frank Grant and Dave Gerner.

Messenger Press, 1998, Photograph, B 70869/15051

Scenes of South Australia

c. 1880, Photograph, B 71545/1-113

Photographs in black & white and some sepia, of South Australian scenes and landscapes, ca.1890-1930. See CONTENTS for more information and details.

Three ships at Goolwa jetty.

c. 1890, Photograph, B 71617

The bows of 'P.S. Wentworth' and the barge 'MacIntyre' with 'P.S. Tolarno' at rear, Goolwa jetty and wharf.

Album of photographs of Nullarbor caves exploration

Watson, Howard Gwynn, 1934, Photograph, B 47686/1-172

Photographs taken by H.G. Watson of Ceduna of trips of exploration to the caves of the Nullarbor Plain in 1935. Also includes scenes of the Duke of Gloucester's train visit to Ooldea in 1934, his meeting with Daisy Bates and a corroboree performance arranged for him by local Aboriginal people. (NOTE: captions used for 143-149 are those from the album and do not reflect current appropriate use of language.) At the back of the album is a manuscript account of 'Trip to Eucla', a 'Chronicle' newspaper report of the 1935 cave exploration, and a newspaper cutting photograph from The Mail, Saturday 3 April 1937 (page 2) showing a cave with members of an exploration party headed by Mr H. Gwynn Watson. For more photographs and papers of Howard Watson and his family see PRG 1527.

N.T. Jaffrey at Fowlers Bay

c. 1914, Photograph, B 71990/1-2

N.T. Jaffrey at Fowlers Bay between 1911 and 1916. See 'Contents' for details.

Renmark views

c. 1930, Photograph, B 72271/1-10

Comprising 10 tourism 'snapshots' of Renmark and the surrounding area, including buildings and paddlesteamers.

New flour mill in South Australia

1920, Photograph, PRG 280/1/25/222

The premises of a the River Murray Milling Co. flour mill near the Murray River in South Australia.

Alexandrina in a picturesque setting

c. 1955, Photograph, PRG 1258/1/83

The 'Alexandrina' in a picturesque setting. Taken after 1954, possibly 1955, at Apex Park downstream from Mildura. [from information supplied].

Adventurous

c. 1910, Photograph, PRG 1258/1/37

The 'Adventurous' was later renamed 'Marloo'.

Bessie

c. 1940, Photograph, PRG 1258/1/254

The 'Bessie', small motor launch, being towed by truck and trailer.

P.S. Canberra

c. 1964, Photograph, PRG 1258/1/370

Captain Bill Collins at P.S. Canberra's wheel at Mildura.

P.S. Captain Sturt

c. 1917, Photograph, PRG 1258/1/406

'P.S. Captain Sturt' at Coffer Dam, Lock number 1, Blanchetown, during construction of Lock.

P.S. Colonel with P.S. William Davies at Mildura

c. 1905, Photograph, PRG 1258/1/4010

The 'P.S. Colonel' with 'P.S. William Davies' and several barges near stacks of cargo at Mildura, with carts and horses backed up for loading.

P.S. Wilcannia and Crowie barge

c. 1917, Photograph, PRG 1258/1/710

'P.S. Wilcannia' with 'Crowie' barge at Mannum.

Elma, motor vessel

c. 1950, Photograph, PRG 1258/1/925

'Elma', Clarrie Rowe's small motor launch, with several men sitting under a shade at the stern, wooden rowboat in foreground.

P.S. Emily Jane

c. 1895, Photograph, PRG 1258/1/928

'P.S. Emily Jane' tied to river bank on the Darling. Name plate includes 'W. Bowring & Co', storekeeper, Wentworth, who used it for trading. Passengers including women standing around the top deck, and crew standing near cargo under cover at bow.