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[Plan of Adelaide and surrounds] [cartographic material] / traced by H. Higginson
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.
Commercial Wharf
Buildings of Adelaide Steamship Company, Robinsons bridge on left.
Halifax Street, Adelaide
[General description] This hotel has existed since 1840 under the name Rob Roy and it is still extant in 2017. The licensee at this time is Mrs. T. Varley. This view shows recent renovations done to the earlier part of the hotel (on the left) with a rendered facade and parapet in the style of the '1920s. The wing on the right was built in 1881, architects being English and Soward. Penfolds Ports are advertised on the gate. [On back of photograph] 'Acre 523 / Rob Roy Hotel / Halifax Street, north side / The hotel stands on the east corner of Colby Place / The single storey cottage on the right stands on the west corner of Queen Street'.
South Terrace
South Terrace east, west corner of Louisa Street, showing "Metuenda", a private residence. Frontage: 19 1/2 yards. The large two storey double winged house has a recessed front door and overhead balcony. Across the roofs of all three parts of the house stands a balustraded parapet. The house stands on a prominent site on the corner of Louisa Street and South Terrace. The owner was Friedrich Christian Wilhelm Bruggemann who arrived in Port Adelaide from Bremen, Germany in 1856. He was aged twenty and his occupation was a saddler. The house was for some time used as a hospital or 'Patients' Home'.
Adelaide View
View from Shell Tower looking towards Port Adelaide.
Waterside Workers' Strike
[General description] Men, some holding guns, stand about in front of the Torrens Drill Hall with several parked cars. Buildings on Kintore Avenue can be seen in the background. The Drill Hall was demolished in 1935 and replaced with the building to be seen at B 6297. [On back of photograph] 'Reproduced in the 'Register', September 29th, 1928 / Waterside workers' strike / Volunteers assembling on the Parade Ground, Adelaide / September 28th, 1928'.
Adelaide Rowing Club : Championship 4
Championship 4 Port Adelaide 22/3/1902. Bow H.H. Mildred; 2. D. Blyth; 3. J.H. Gosse; Stroke A.J. Grayson; Cox T.E. Burden.
Dockyard apprentices, Adelaide
Four dockyard apprentices who have received School of Mines certification photographed with Mr. Christie, Superintendent of the Port Adelaide dockyard in a garden, other names not known.
Partly finished caissons for the Adelaide Refinery
Partly finished caissons for the Adelaide Refinery, weighing 700 tonnes with a 50 foot diameter, and are 55 feet high. They would form sections of pier head to berth tankers up to 20,000 tons D.W.T.
Mt. Lofty and Adelaide
Mt. Lofty and Adelaide viewed from the roof of the Department of Marine and Harbors building.
Photographs of company premises, staff and merchandise
Approximately 170 photographs and postcard images of Colton, Palmer & Preston Ltd. premises in Currie Street, Adelaide, on Port Road, Allenby Gardens and Gepps Cross; including scenes at Currie Street of the February 1907 fire, new building, leather goods factory, celebrations for Armistice Day 1918, Port Adelaide steel yard and bulk store, Adelaide warehouse interior scenes, Harrold Colton & Co. staff in 1909 and later, social functions, sporting functions, cricketing and football teams.
Photograph album of James Ramsay McColl
Studio portraits relating to the McColl Family, including examples of the work of a number of Adelaide and Melbourne photographic studios. The photographer is noted in brackets where this is known. The photographs show elegant dress styles and hair styles for men, women and children in the late nineteenth century in Adelaide and Melbourne, as well as Scotland.
Historic photograph album by D. Darian Smith
Comprising a collection of 34 aerial photographs of Adelaide city and surrounds by prominent South Australian aerial photographer D. Darian Smith. Collection includes early views of Adelaide, Port Noarlunga, Port Adelaide, Barossa Valley, Murray River areas and Victor Harbor. See also http://memorybank.atkins.com.au/galleries/ddariansmith viewed 1/2/2018. See also James Dodd diaries SLSA D 7968(L).
Album of people, places and events on Eyre Peninsula and the west coast of South Australia during the years 1929-1934
A collection of 329 photographs of people, events and places on the Eyre Peninsula and west coast of South Australia. Places include Port Lincoln, Boston Bay, Kirton Point, Proper Bay, Warner, Myalpa Beach, Tod River, Lake Hamilton, Sleaford Bay, Woolshed Cave, Talia, Streaky Bay, Back Beach, Ceduna, Koonibba, Point Sinclair, Port Le Hunte, Penong, Kooringibbie Well. The album contains photographs documenting the Back to Port Lincoln Carnival celebrations, 7-14 February 1930; photographs taken at Ceduna of the Western Australian Centenary Air Race 1929 (also known as the East- West Air Race); the refuelling stop at Ceduna of the inaugural flight of Air Mail services between Adelaide and Perth 1929 and the 130th Anniversary of the Landing of Matthew Flinders at Boston Bay, 26 February 1932. A number of sailing ships and motor vessels visiting Boston Bay between 1929 and 1933 were photographed, among them SS Melbourne, Olive Bank, Hougomont, Viking, MV Phasianella, Minnipa, King Stephen, Moonta, Rhymney, L'Avenir, Grootekerk and the new aircraft carrier HMAS Albatross which was first commissioned in 1929. The photographs include some interesting images of farming and transportation on the far west coast of South Australia, and show glimpses of the lives of Aboriginal people at that time at Poonindie Mission, Koonibba Mission, Fowler's Bay and Ceduna region. The photographs in this collection were taken by E. F. Derbyshire during the years 1929-1933, when he as a commercial traveller for Clarkson Limited of Adelaide, suppliers of builders' tools and hardware. See 'Contents' for more information and details of individual photographs.
Album of people, places and events on Eyre Peninsula and the west coast of South Australia during the years 1929-1934
A collection of 329 photographs of people, events and places on the Eyre Peninsula and west coast of South Australia. Places include Cleve, Ceduna, Cowell, Franklin Harbor, Port Lincoln, Boston Bay. The album contains photographs which document the Back to Port Lincoln Carnival celebrations, 7-14 February 1930; photographs taken at Ceduna of the Western Australian Centenary Air Race 1929 (also known as the East- West Air Race); the refuelling stop at Ceduna of the inaugural flight of Air Mail services between Adelaide and Perth 1929 and the 130th Anniversary of the Landing of Matthew Flinders at Boston Bay, 26 February 1932. A number of sailing ships and motor vessels visiting Boston Bay between 1929 and 1934 were photographed, among them Melbourne, Olive Bank, Hougomont, Viking, Phasianella, Minnipa, King Stephen, Moonta, Rhymney, L'Avenir, Grootekerk and the new aircraft carrier HMAS Albatross which was first commissioned in 1929. The photographs include some interesting images of farming and transportation on the far west coast of South Australia, and show glimpses of the lives of Aboriginal people at that time at Poonindie Mission, Koonibba Mission, Fowler's Bay and Ceduna region. The photographs in this collection were taken by E. F. Derbyshire during the years 1929-1933, when he was a commercial traveller for Clarkson Limited of Adelaide, suppliers of builders' tools and hardware. See 'Contents' for more information and details of individual photographs.
Postcard collection of Emily Sophia Groom
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].
Photographs of places in South Australia
Colour slides depicting scenes around Adelaide and South Australia. Views include shipping at Port Adelaide, planes at Adelaide Airport, locations in the Adelaide Hills, the Fleurieu Peninsula, Yorke Peninsula, and in the Adelaide CBD.
World War 1 and 2 era fundraising button badges
World War One era badges (also known as buttons or 'tinnies') collected by the R.S.L. Most badges were designed and created to be puchased as a fundraising interest, in order to raise money for various factions of the Red Cross. Included are badges created for occasions such as Australia Day, Violet Day, Army Nurses Day, and French Day, and for charity groups including the Red Cross, the Cheer-Up Society, the R.S.A. Building Fund (Returned Soldiers' Association, which later became the R.S.L.), the Wattle Day League, Soldiers' Home, Children's Patriotic League, Nursing Society, and the Y.M.C.A., as well as official peace badges marking the end of the war and various miscellaneous badges including a Christian Endeavour convention, fundraising carnivals and memorial gardens. Also includes some button badges from the inter-war years, 1919-1938, and from the Second World War, and other metal badges from WW1 and WW2. See below for details.
Scenes in Adelaide, Goolwa and Ungarra, Eyre Peninsula: photograph album
Album includes views of Adelaide and beaches at Brighton and Glenelg; draught horses at the Royal Show 1937; Goolwa barrage under construction, Sturt paddle steamer; the sailing ship Passat; together with family, farming, fishing and other leisure and sporting activities in the region of Ungarra, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. Details of the photographs are listed under items.
South Australian scenes and activities 20
Part of a collection of slides taken by amateur photographer Elva Heinemann of South Australian scenes and activities, featuring Coastal Towns (1960) and South Adelaide (1968). Images 1165-1179 taken in 1966, images 1180-1185 taken in 1969, images 1186-1230 taken in 1968. See 'contents' for details of individual images.
Collection of scenes of South Australia, interstate and the United Kingdom
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.
Arrival of Vickers Vimy and crew at Darwin and Adelaide
Small album featuring photographs of the arrival of the Vickers Vimy and crew at Fannie Bay airstrip in Port Darwin, and at Northfield Aerodrome, Adelaide, with officials and spectators gathered to view the event. See below for details.
The 'Orange Grove' at an unidentified port
The iron barque 'Orange Grove', 398 tons, at an unidentified port [iron 3 mast barque, 403 gross, 385 net tons, ON43706, 146.6 x 25.6 x 15.9. Built 1861 (11) Barclay, Curle and Co., Glasgow. Owners: AB Hood, registered Glasgow: 1873 GR Dibbs, registered Sydney: July 1881 A Russell, registered Port Adelaide: June 1883 WL Dickson and others (of Port Adelaide), registered Melbourne: Jan. 1888 JJ Russell and others (of Port Adelaide) Jan. 1898 Adelaide SS Co. Ltd. Made into a hulk no later than 1898 and register closed 1913]
The 'Orange Grove' at an unidentified port
The iron barque 'Orange Grove', 398 tons, at an unidentified port [iron 3 mast barque, 403 gross, 385 net tons, ON43706, 146.6 x 25.6 x 15.9. Built 1861 (11) Barclay, Curle and Co., Glasgow. Owners: AB Hood, registered Glasgow: 1873 GR Dibbs, registered Sydney: July 1881 A Russell, registered Port Adelaide: June 1883 WL Dickson and others (of Port Adelaide), registered Melbourne: Jan. 1888 JJ Russell and others (of Port Adelaide) Jan. 1898 Adelaide SS Co. Ltd. Made into a hulk no later than 1898 and register closed 1913]
Views of Adelaide, Victor Harbor region and Ungarra, Eyre Peninsula : photograph album
Photograph album containing views of sporting events and farming at Ungarra, Eyre Peninsula, Glenelg and beach, scenes on the South Coast including Granite Island, Middleton, Chiton Beach, Port Elliot. The following photographs have not been digitised: PRG 1605/4/3 (another copy at PRG 1605/4/61); PRG 1605/4/51 (another copy at PRG 1605/4/23); PRG 1605/4/53 (another copy at PRG 1605/4/16); PRG 1605/4/58 (another copy in PRG 1605/1/26); PRG 1605/4/52 (uncropped version is at PRG 1605/4/65); PRG 1605/4/69 (another copy at PRG 1605/4/17)
Album of photographs taken in Adelaide in 1973
Album of photographs taken in January and February 1973 during a return visit to Adelaide by Barbara Hanrahan. They were used by the author as a visual memoir of her childhood for her first novel 'The scent of eucalyptus', published in London later that year by Chatto & Windus. See 'Contents' for details. Do a NUMBER search on PRG 961/30/4/1-133 to see digitised images of most of these online (3-4 not digitised). Photographic copies are also available for reference.
South Australia and Northern Territory views
A half morocco over pebbled cloth album, inscribed on front pastedown 'Zur Erinnerung an Adelaide Sud-Australien / von Herrn & Frau Unbehaun / December 1899' [In memory of Adelaide, South Australia, from Mr & Mrs Unbehaun], and containing 24 window mounted silver gelatin prints, each 100 x 150 mm and with a manuscript caption on the album page beneath.
The 'Fleur de Maurice' in an unidentified port
The wooden barque 'Fleur de Maurice', 317 tons, in an unidentified port [wooden 3 mast barque, 333 gross, 317 tons. ON49938. 131.0 x 26.8 x 15.6. Built 1864 Clarke, Jersey. Owners: formerly owned in Jersey. July 1876 J Walker and Son, registered Port Adelaide. Wrecked when crossing the bar at Port Natal, South Africa, April 5, 1894]
The 'County of Ayr' in an unidentified port
The iron barque 'County of Ayr', 499 tons, in an unidentified port. [County of Ayr iron ship, 499 tons, ON45977, 170.0 x 17.3 x 17.3. Built 1863 (6) C. Connell and Co. Glasgow. Owners R&J Craig, registered Glasgow c.1894 sold to Port Adelaide and eventually to JA Walker. By this time rigged down to a barque. Sold in July 1901 to Messrs. Folder, Barker and Ward and Captain William Tulloch and registered at Hobart. Wrecked 23 October 1905 on Danger Reef, Otago NZ. General work before sale to Australia, usually in the coal trade when owned in Port Adelaide, and used for the transport of Tasmanian timbers until wrecked, after sale to Hobart]
The 'Bankfields' at Port Pirie
The iron barque 'Bankfields', 785 tons, at Port Pirie. [iron barque, 859 tons. ON74533, 195.4 x 32.1 x 19.7. Built 1876 (6) Osbourne, Graham and Co. Sunderland. Owners: S. Wakenham and Sons, registered Liverpool. (Built as 'James Beazley' for William Kelly registered Liverpool, sold and renamed in 1878) January 1900 The Adelaide Milling Co. Ltd registered Port Adelaide: April 1908 Colonial Sailing Ship Co. Ltd registered Lyttelton, 1911 The Adelaide Steamship Co. Ltd and converted to a hulk at Port Adelaide. Towed to Fremantle in 1918 for further use as a hulk. Sunk by gunfire RAAF off Rottnest Island 7 June 1950 when not required for further duty as a hulk.]