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Caleb Fidler
[General description] Photographic portrait of Caleb Fidler of Mt Gambier. He is shown as a thin faced man with thinning hair which is still wavy at the sides. He has a long wiry beard. [On back of photograph] No information.
Boyle Travers Finniss
[General description] This is an upper body portrait of Boyle Travers Finniss, in three quarter view. He wears a jacket, double breasted waitcoat and mutton chop whiskers. Mr. Finniss, a surveyor, arrived in South Australia on the Cygnet in 1836 and as Surveyor General William Light's assistant had a role in the setting out of Adelaide and surrounds, later founding the site for Darwin. He was South Australia's first Premier for a brief period.
Boyle Travers Finniss
[General descripiton] Head and shoulders portrait (in seven eights view) of Boyle Travers Finniss who came out to South Australia in the Cygnet as Colonel Light's assistant. He later became South Australia's first Premier.
Boyle Travers Finniss
[General description] Full length portrait of Boyle Travers Finniss with greying moustache and trimmed beard, wearing a dark frock coat and loose light coloured trousers. He stands and faces the camera with one elbow resting on a pedestal in front of a classical rural backdrop. He was a soldier, surveyor and public servant.
Charles Brown Fisher
[On back of photograph] 'Charles Brown Fisher' [General description] Portrait of C.B. Fisher, showing head and shoulders in three quarter view, facing right. Born on the 25 September 1818 in London, he was the second son of James Hurtle Fisher. He arrived in the colony with his parents on the Buffalo In December, 1836. A noted racehorse owner and breeder he became one of the biggest pastoralists in Australia, eventually going bankrupt in 1895. He retired to Melbourne, then Adelaide where he died at Glenelg on 6 May 1908.
Joseph Fisher
[General description] Head and shoulders portrait of Joseph Fisher in three quarter view. He is grey haired with a neatly trimmed beard and wears a rose in his lapel. One of Adelaide's prominent citizens, he was a newspaper owner (The 'Register' and 'Observer'), parliamentarian and benefactor . An astute accountant and businessman, he was director for several firms including the Bank of Adelaide, the Port Adelaide Dock Co. and the South Australian Gas Co. He was an enthusiastic gardener, tending his large garden at Woodfield, Fullarton.
Joseph Fisher
[General description] Head and upper body portrait of Joseph Fisher in seven eighths view. He was proprietor and commercial manager of the South Australian Register from 1853 until 1865, then became a member of parliament (both houses) ship owner and general benefactor.
William and Rebecca Fisk and their children
Four individual ambrotypes of the Fisk family, each housed in its own mount within a guttapercha case. The individual portraits can be viewed by searching on B 29370/1 to B 29370/4.
William Fisk
Ambrotype portrait of William Fisk, plumber and grazier, arrived in South Australia from Suffolk aboard the 'Historia' on 31 July 1854. Husband of Rebecca and father of Hannah and John, William died at Parkside on 14 February 1898, aged 75.
Daniel Victor Fleming
[General description] Head and partial shoulders portrait of the subject, in seven eighths view. He is clean shaven and wears a wing collar shirt with a bow tie. [On back of photograph] 'Daniel Victor Fleming / Commissioner of Highways / Biographical particulars as supplied by Mr. Fleming (XFL/27) / Born at Ballarat, Sep. 23, 1884 / Educated at Grenville College, Ballarat, and at the Ballarat School of Mines, where he obtained the Associateship in Engineering / Worked under various shire engineers in Victoria / Entered Roads and Bridges Dept. In S.A. as a draftsman in 1909 / Assistant engineer of Roads, 1913. / Engineer of Roads and Bridges, 1918. / Engineer of Director of Local Govt. Dept., 1923. / Commissioner of Highways and Director of Local Govt., 1927'.
Captain Matthew Flinders
A portrait of Captain Matthew Flinders R.N., published by Joyce Gold, Naval Chronical Office, [London] 30th September 1814.
John Formby
[General description] Upper body portrait of grey haired and bearded John Formby who was prominent in Port Adelaide affairs, being Justice of the Peace and Mayor from 1869-1873. [On back of photograph] 'John Formby of Port Adelaide / Stipendary Magistrate'.
Lord John Forrest
[General description] Head and shoulders portrait in three quarter view of SirJohn Forrest. His hair is short and he is wearing a trimmed beard and moustache. A surveyor and experienced bushman, he made several exploration trips into central Australia. He was appointed the first Premier of Western Australia on the 22nd December, 1890, providing ten years of stable government for the state . In 1918 he was informed that he was to be invested as a Baron but died before the patent was signed.
Anthony Forster
[General description] Portrait of Anthony Foster, seated with his hand resting on a small table. He wears a stiff, high collar and bow tie. He was at times a Methodist lay preacher, politician, financier and newspaper owner/editor. He published 'South Australia: its Progress and Prosperity' (London), in 1866. [On back of photograph] 'Anthony Forster, one of the proprietors of the South Australian Registor / To arrest further fading this print was re-immersed in hypo. and thoroughly washed in 1931'.
George Swan Fowler
[General description] Upper body portrait of George Swan Fowler in seven eighths view. He wears the spade beard fashionable at the time. With his younger brother David built Adelaide's successful wholesale grocery and shipping agency D.& J. Fowler.
George Swan Fowler
[General description] Head and shoulders portrait of George Swan Fowler. He has grey hair, beard and moustache. His watch chain can be seen at his waistcoat. In 1854, with his brother David, he founded the famous firm D. and J. Fowler. It started as a small retail business in King William Street but eventually expanded to become one of Australia's largest wholesale groceries.
Sir Arthur Henry Freeling
Sir Arthur Henry Freeling, Surveyor-General of South Australia and head of the Crown Lands Department. This portrait was taken in full dress uniform, as a major and honorary lieutenant-colonel in the Royal Engineers.
Henry Robert Fuller
[General description] Oval shaped portrait of the head and partial shoulders of the subject. He has greying hair and beard. [On back of photograph] 'H. R. Fuller, Mayor of Adelaide / On Duke of Ediburgh's visit'.
Sir Henry Lionel Galway
[General description] Full length portrait of Sir Henry Lionel Galway, K.C.M.G., D.S.O.,Governor of South Australia 1914-1920. Standing erect, he confidently faces the camera wearing full dress uniform with much gold braid and a tall headdress decorated with feathers. On his chest he wears medals including the star and badge of a Knight Commander. He was a controversial governor for South Australia, socially conservative and favouring conscription and capital punishment. [On back of photograph] 'Sir Henry Galway'.
Sir Henry Lionel Galway
[General description] Head and shoulders portrait of Sir Henry Lionel Galway, Governor of South Australia from 18 April 1914 until 30 April 1920. He wears one of his medals on the lapel of his striped jacket. [On back of photograph] 'Lieutenant- Colonel Sir Henry Lionel Galway, K.C.M.G., D.S.O. / Presented by Mrs. H.L. Aldersey' His signature, dated 1919, is attached to the back of the photograph.
John Gardner
[General description] This image is split into three parts, the first being a decorative testemonial document from the Church subscribers, the second has a signed photograph of the Reverend and the third shows the presentation candelabrum, an elaborate structure shaped like a palm tree with a stag standing at its base and a bowl of fruit on its top. [On back of photograph] 'Memorial presented to the Reverend John Gardner on his departure from Chalmers Church, September 23rd, 1868 / With portrait and presentation candelabrum'.
Reverend John Gardner
[General description] Full front head and shoulders portrait of the Reverend John Gardner, Presbyterian minister. He is wearing preaching bands attached to his clerical collar.
Mrs Ruth Marjorie Gault
Full length studio portrait of Mrs Ruth Marjorie Gault in a long dress and wearing a hat. Mrs Gault was a South Australian poet and author. This photo appears to have been taken at the same time as B 6848. Mrs Kyle Gault was formerly Miss Ruth Hawker and the photograph taken in 1936 shows her wearing a period costume worn during the Kuitpo Pioneer Ship Competition. Mrs Gault represented the ship "Lysander" which arrived in South Australia in 1840.
Colonel George Gawler
[General description] Head and shoulders portrait of Colonel George Gawler in seven eighths view. His grey hair, sideburns and beard are neatly trimmed. Appointed Governor of South Australia in 1838 he arrived in the Colony on October 12th that year. He had great difficulties to contend with, and his administration, though it was at the time condemned by many, is now seen to be appropriate in hindsight. He spent a large amount of both his own fortune and government funds in necessary improvements to the colony. He was recalled in 1841. [On back of photograph] 'Colonel George Gawler / 2nd Governor of South Australia / From October 1838 to May 1841'.
Maria Gawler
[General description] Seated portrait of Mrs Maria Gawler, nee Cox, wife of Colonel George Gawler. She is wearing the full skirt of the period, with a lace shawl and cap. She was engaged in the philanthropic, educational and religious life of the colony during Governor Gawler's tenure.
Lionel Carley Egremont Gee
[General description] Full length studio portrait of Lionel Carley Egremont Gee. He is posed in a uniform featuring a frogged jacket and kepi cap and is carrying a sword. He was Chief Registrar of the South Australian Mines Department.
Thomas Gilbert
[General description] Upper body portrait of Thomas Gilbert, Colonial Storekeeper and first Postmaster. He came out to South Australia on the Cygnet in 1836.
Ernest Giles
[General description] Photograph of a lithograph signed 'J. Bruer'. It is a portrait of Ernest Giles, explorer, seen in three quarter view. Although he made no major discoveries, Giles' expeditions added substantially to the knowledge of central Australia, resulting in several highly regarded journals. He succeeded in his aim of crossing overland from South to Western Australia in 1875.
William Giles
William Giles, Company Manager and Member of Upper House, seat of Yatala. George Angas Fife invited him to take charge of the South Australian Company Station on Kangaroo Island. He took up the position of Colonial Manager and later moved to Adelaide where he set the agricultural future of the state. He improved the wool clip, flour exports, copper mining, harvesting. He was patriarch of 21 children and 78 grandchildren.
Francis James Gillen
[General description] Portrait of Francis James Gillen, seated. He is short haired and clean shaven. He was a Public Servant and amateur ethnologist, appointed in 1892 as Alice Springs post and telegraph station master where he was also Special Magistrate and Sub-protector of Aborigines. He had a particular interest in the Aboriginal people and vigorously defended their rights. He collaborated with anthropologist Sir Baldwin Spencer on field trips and in publications.