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Plan of the intended New Port [cartographic material] / by Thomas Monins Hastings

1913, Archival map/chart, C 152

Tracing made in 1913 of the plan of the new port at Port Adelaide as designed by His Excellency Col. G. Gawler, K.H., and drawn by T.M. Hastings, divided into sections of 80 and 134 acres. Area of plan extends from Torrens Island to part of site of later Albert Town. Outside map area are names of proprietors of land sections in new development (S.A. Company, T.B. Strangways, J.A. Smith & R.G. Symonds). Scale 10 cm to 1 mile. Signature of E.M. Smith, Surveyor General, dated 25 September 1913 at bottom centre, and 18/21 written in red ink at bottom left.

Bird's-eye view of Adelaide and its environs [cartographic material]

1884, Archival map/chart, C 1044/1

Panorama of Adelaide and suburban townships covering the area from Torrens Island to Somerton and from Mt. Lofty to Semaphore. Details include roads, rail and tram lines, rivers and creeks, jetties and baths. Sailing ships and steamers can be seen in the Port River and at sea. Shows development at Port Adelaide and Glenelg, then vegetation between Southwark and Thebarton and the coastline.

Sketch of Port River [cartographic material] : showing Old Port & 10 sec. A to K, from which the New Port developed / [compiled in Chief Draftsman's Office, Lands Dept.]

1937, Archival map/chart, C 232

Scan of hand drawn map of Port River, South Australia, showing the Old Port and 10 sections (A-K) from which the New Port developed. Includes Torrens and Garden Islands and railway line. Legend contains names of wharves.

Chart of Port Adelaide, South Australia [cartographic material] / drawn by F.H. Burslem

1840, Archival map/chart, BRG 42/120/3

This chart was compiled from Colonel Light's survey with soundings by S. Hamilton, drawn by F.H. Burslem of the Survey Department and engraved by W. Moffitt, Sydney. Shows coast, river with soundings, and Torrens Island. Includes natural features. Although dated 1839, map and detailed navigation notes on right hand edge date this version at 1840. Title of map at bottom right does not have its supporting kangaroos and emu figures as in map 120/2. Scale 2 inches to 1 mile. (On reverse side is printed the 1839 map without the text on left hand edge, another copy of map 120/2 in this series.) [Double sided map; previously C155 & C156].

Plan and section of the South Australian Company's road to the New Port and Section 'A' [cartographic material] / by G.S. Kingston, Civil Engineer

1840, Archival map/chart, BRG 42/120/8

Plan of the New Port and Section 'A' at Port Adelaide, showing the Company's proposed wharf, canal and new road to Adelaide. Also shows the 'Old Landing Place' with sections 423 and 443 indicated. Plan by G.S. Kingston dated 10 July 1840. Photograph made of Governor George Gawler's copy ca.1868; original watercolour. Scale 1 inch to 5 chains. Original signed by Kingston outside border of map.

Military map [cartographic material] / compiled in the surveyor General's Office

South Australia. Surveyor-General's Office, Archival map/chart, C 343

Topographic map of Adelaide and surrounding areas, South Australia, showing the coastline from Pelican Point to Marino, and inland to Cavan to Mitcham. Includes the City of Adelaide. Details include major roads, waterways, windmills, military installations, land use, vegetation, reedbeds, building names, cemeteries and tramways. Also includes Port Adelaide, quarantine stations, vegetation on Lefevre Peninsula and on farms, areas which are highly devloped now. Also shows fences, hedges, buildings, windmills and areas impassable for artillery. Relief shown by hachures and pictorially.

Plan and mean section of the road to the New Port and proposed wharf at Section 'A'[Port Adelaide] [cartographic material] / G.S. Kingston, Civil Engineer

1839, Archival map/chart, BRG 42/120/20

Part coloured plan of the road between Adelaide and the Old Port with creek, canal and government reserve nearby, also road to the new Port showing proposed wharf, Government Reserve and section numbers. A creek crosses this road and a profile of the road is included indicating in blue the high water mark. Scale 1 inch to 5 chains. Ink and watercolour. (See map 120/19 for finished version of this plan).

Plan of the intended New Port, Adelaide, South Australia [cartographic material]

1839, Archival map/chart, C 1075

Similar to C 1074 but earlier, fewer roads, text on right hand side of map rather than left, information slightly different. Covers the area from Torrens Island to Albert Town, shows sections with owner's names and government and public reserves. Soundings given for the river and tidal information is included. Published by Light, Finniss & Co.

Photographs of public events and sites around Glenelg, Brighton and nearby suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia

Messenger Press, c. 1994, Photograph, B 75502/1-132

A collection of photographs relating to the south-west suburbs of Brighton, Glenelg, Seacliff, Noarlunga and nearby suburbs in South Australia. The group includes a series of photos showing the damage to the Brighton jetty after major storms in 1994 and 1995, and its subsequent re-building. According to brief paperwork attached to the photos (now removed), many of the photographs were published in the Guardian Messenger. Where more than one date has been supplied, one of the dates may refer to the date of publication. See 'contents' for details of individual images.

South Australia shewing the division into counties of the settled portions of the province with situation of mines of copper & lead [cartographic material] : from the survey of Captn. Frome, Rl. Engrs., Survr. Genl. of the Colony, 1844 / John Arrowsmith, 10 Soho Square

Arrowsmith, John, Archival map/chart, C 993

Map of South Australia showing eight counties, towns and homesteads, roads and proposed railway tracks, mineral localities in red with notes on vegetation and land cover. The map also includes time-dated exploration routes. The inset of Port Adelaide shows streets and land blocks for proposed buildings. Surveys made in 1844. Relief is shown by hachures with some spot heights.

Plan of the District of Adelaide South Australia showing the property of the South Australian Company [cartographic material]

1838, Archival map/chart, BRG 42/120/17

Cadastral map of the 'District of Adelaide' with Adelaide, North Adelaide and surrounding parklands, Port Adelaide, Holdfast Bay and Glenelg down to the area just south of Marino, the rivers of the Adelaide plains and Port River, and the foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges shown. The land sections are all numbered and those held by the South Australian Company coloured in green. Areas within the town grids for Adelaide and North Adelaide have been coloured in red. The map gives a clear indication of the extent of vegetation in 1838 across the Adelaide district. Scale 2 inches to 1 mile. Hand drawn map based on the survey by Light, Finniss & Co., with their company's name and the date October 1838 written in ink, at bottom centre of map. (This map came from the London office of the South Australian Company. It appears to predate the maps of the same area published in London by John Arrowsmith from February 1839 onwards).

South Australia [cartographic material] : the port and town of Adelaide, on the eastern coast of St. Vincent's Gulf / from a drawing by Colonel W. Light, Surveyor General

Light, William, 1880, Archival map/chart, C 195A

Map showing the town and port of Adelaide showing Light's proposed park grounds around the town, the location of the present settlement, the sand hill at the harbour and the freshwater inland lakes. The map features Light's model for the emerging city, emphasising the availability of water, noting the surrounding vegetation, and his plan to connect the river flowing through the city to the harbour. The accompanying text are extracts from Light's writings, some dated Feby. 7th [1837], elaborating on his plans for Adelaide. Relief shown by hachures and soundings.

Sketch map - Adelaide, South Australia [cartographic material] / prepared by Commonwealth Section, Imperial General Staff

Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Commonwealth Section, Archival map/chart, C 1111

Topographic map of the Adelaide region with some cadastral detail. Details include roads, railways, suburban villages, rivers and creeks, farms and some owners' names. Relief shown by contours. June 1915 reprint of the 1913 survey published in 1914.

South Australia. Chart of the approach to Port Augusta [cartographic material] : showing established lights

Archival map/chart, C 853

Nautical chart of the approach to Port Augusta, South Australia showing Flinders Channel, Yatala Harbour and beacons. Includes details 'Notice to mariners', notes on natural features on land and depth in soundings.

Plan shewing the Adelaide and Port Darwin telegraph line [cartographic material] / drawn by J. Brooks, F.C. Ward and W. M. Hardy

South Australia. Surveyor-General's Office, 1872, Archival map/chart, C 1090

Map of the Northern Territory and northern South Australia showing the Overland Telegraph Line route, with sections marked A-E and contract sections. Shows the area from Port Augusta to Palmerston. Details include named natural features (mountain ranges, lakes, rivers, creeks, springs), railway lines and stations.

Plan of the town of Adelaide, South Australia [cartographic material] : reduced from the original plan of the Surveyor General Wm. Light Esqr. 1837

Light, William, Archival map/chart, C 247

Map of City of Adelaide, South Australia giving the Town Acre numbers and street names. Details include the River Torrens between north and south Adelaide and Government House, the Barracks and Guard House on North Terrace. The location of the intended Botanic Gardens is indicated on the western side of the City between two roads to Port Adelaide. A cemetery and market place are shown in the parklands adjacent to West Terrace and south west of the city are two roads to Holdfast Bay. The hospital is in the parklands adjacent to East Terrace and in North Adelaide a storehouse and school can be found.

Port Victor and environs [cartographic material]

Archival map/chart, C 304

Coloured map showing Port Victor, South Australia, and surrounding area, including The Bluff and Granite Island. Details include fishing grounds, roads and tracks, Inman and Hindmarsh rivers, some occupants names, and location of Aboriginal camp. Relief shown by form lines and pictorially.

Map shewing lines of railways in South Australia 1903 [cartographic material]

Archival map/chart, C 964

Map of South Australia, showing railway lines and different gauges, place names and geographical features. Also shows suggested route from Port Augusta to Kalgoorlie, the private railway from Iron Knob to Spencer Gulf and north of Oodnadatta, the proposed railway line to the Northern Territory and the route of the Overland Telegraph.

Plan of Overland Telegraph from Port Darwin to Port Augusta [cartographic material] / compiled and drawn in the Office of the Post Master General and Superintendent of Telegraphs by Alexander Ringwood ; Frazer S. Crawford, Photolithographer

Ringwood, Alexander, 1873, Archival map/chart, C 1093

Map of northern South Australia and Northern Territory showing the Overland Telegraph Line from Port Augusta, South Australia, to Palmerston in the north. Shows boundaries of counties and hundreds, telegraph line, natural features and notes and routes made by the Surveyor General, telegraph construction parties, etc. Relief shown by hachures. Details of the northern section from Palmerston to Katherine Station include coast, rivers and creeks, ranges, tablelands. Part 2 covers the area from the Roper River to Ashburton Range, Powell's Creek Station and Mt. Willieray just north of Tennant Creek and includes some notes on natural features.

South Australian railways [cartographic material] : map to accompany time and fare tables November 1915

1915, Archival map/chart, C 976

Map of South Australia showing railways, the different gauge lines, lines under construction (Port Augusta to Kalgoorlie), the private line from Iron Knob, the northern lline to Oodnadatta, the Overland Telegraph Line, place and station names and some geographic features.

Lighthouse map of the province of South Australia [cartographic material] / Marine Board of South Australia

Archival map/chart, C 930

Shows the South Australian coast from Waterloo Bay in the west to Cape Northumberland in the east. Lighthouses are shown with the reach of their lights indicated and bays and jetties are marked on the map. Information about the lights (locality, colour, distance visible, tower material) and a list of wharves is placed at the top of the map. Insets: Port Adelaide River and Port Pirie River showing light beacons. Lithographed by E. Spiller, Government Printer.

E.S. Wigg & Son's general map of the Barrier Ranges mineral fields, (silver, tin etc.) [cartographic material] / compiled by W.H. Tietkins & R. Garlick Holwell

Tietkens, William Henry, Archival map/chart, PRG 5/46

Topographical map of the Barrier Ranges mineral fields, New South Wales. Index to mines at Broken Hill, Euriowie, Thackaringa, Pinnacles, Rockwell Paddock, Waukaroo Relief shown by hachures. Map was among the papers of Professor J.B. Cleland.

Block plans, Port Adelaide [cartographic material] / surveyed and drawn by J.R. Ferguson

1905, Archival map/chart, C 211

Surveyed and drawn for the Fire Underwriters' Association of South Australia. Detailed plans giving street names, names of occupiers and building usage. Lithographs, some colour, with annotations in red ink.

Plan of the township of Two Wells South [cartographic material] : section 449, Hundred of Port Gawler / T.W. Lyons, Draftsman

1869, Archival map/chart, C 138

Plan of the township of Two Wells, South Australia. Details include street names and lot numbers, measurements and prices. No relief shown.

Tracing of land sold to Edward Bayley [cartographic material]

n.d., Archival map/chart, BRG 42/119/12A

Tracing of map of land sold to Edward Bayley between North Parade and Nile Street, Port Adelaide (allotment 7), coloured in red. Ink with watercolour wash on paper, ink notation. (Original on same sheet as plan 12).

County of Adelaide and surrounding districts [cartographic material] / by Robert Stephenson

1850, Archival map/chart, BRG 42/119/14

'Map of the county of Adelaide and surrounding districts. Prepared from the Government plans and carefully revised after the newest surveys, by Robt. Stephenson, surveyor, Exchange Colonnade'. Shows Hundreds of Adelaide, Port Adelaide, Munno Para, Barossa, Para Wirra, Talunga, Onkaparinga, Noarlunga, Willunga and Kuitpo within the county, and Moorooroo, Kanmantoo, Macclesfield and Kondoparinga adjacent. Lithographed and published by Penman and Galbraith, Adelaide, 15 November 1850. Lands held by South Australian Company shown in faint green. Blue, faint green and red watercolour highlights. Scale given.

Plan of the City of Adelaide, South Australia [cartographic material]

n.d., Archival map/chart, C 1025

Early map of north and south Adelaide giving Town Acre numbers and street names. Details include the location of Government House and barracks on North Terrace and of the Botanic Gardens on the western side of the city between the two roads to Port Adelaide. South west of the city are two roads to Holdfast Bay and in North Adelaide a storehouse and school can be found. The hospital is in the parklands adjacent to East Terrace. Elevation indicated by hachures. Printed in stone and published by J. Thompson and J.H. Hughes, Surveyors, Hobart Town.

Geological photos of Adelaide and Eyre Peninsula

Brooks, Colin, 1980, Photograph, B 74631/1-66

Views of Adelaide, the Adelaide Hills, the mouth of the Murray River (December 1978), Port Augusta, Cowell, and Eyre Peninsula, taken from a geologist's perspective. Also includes aerial views of the coast (#17-21), Adelaide streets and buildings (#23-31), aerial views of Adelaide (#32-35), aerial views of country South Australia, including Cowell and Franklin Harbour (#39-66). A selection has been digitised; access to the others may be organised by appointment.

[Plan of Adelaide and surrounds] [cartographic material] / traced by H. Higginson

c. 1850, Archival map/chart, C 262

Shows the Adelaide Plains from Port Adelaide to Brighton divided into numbered sections (marked with '+' if sold, others dated with green ink still for sale). Includes village names no longer in use or spelling changed - Twickenham, Miner's Village, Tenterden, Tam O'Shanter, MakGill), rivers and roads. Ink and watercolour on paper. Possible dates for H. Higginson 1812-1873.

Filmstrips produced by the Education Department of South Australia

Sinclair, Leslie, c. 1950, Photograph, PRG 1683/1/1-9

Educational filmstrips collected by Leslie and Phyllis Sinclair, produced by the Education Department of South Australia, on topics relating to South Australia. See below for details.

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