portrait collection • Find • State Library of South Australia

M. T. Plaisted

Fruhling Studio, c. 1890, Photograph, B 49547

Mayor M.T. Plaisted.

Thomas Plane

Melbourne Photographic Company, c. 1880, Photograph, B 46039

Mr Thomas Plane, member of Captain Tolmer's Gold Escort.

Elliot Frank Playford was born at Norton Summit on 12 October 1876. He was the son of Thomas Playford and Mary Jane Kinsman, one of 6 boys and 5 girls. During his military career he graduated to Major Elliot Frank Playford OBE. He enlisted in 1916 and served in France and England. He was Camp Commandant of the Westham Camp for the 43rd Battalion. As a civil servant he was a draughtsman with the Registrar General Department in Adelaide and accepted a position as draughtsman in the Lands Department in Northern Territory in Palmerston. He married Ethel Playford and had three children and they lived on Osmond Terrace at Norwood.

Reverend Thomas Playford

Duryea, Townsend, c. 1865, Photograph, B 2779

Reverend Thomas Playford, Independent Baptist pastor and ancestor of two South Australian premiers of the same name. See B 1293 for the building which was associated with him and his ministry.

Thomas Playford

c. 1900, Photograph, B 11139

Thomas Playford II served as Premier of South Australia from 1887 - 1889 and again in 1890 - 1892. He worked as a farmer prior to entering politics. Playford's grandson, Sir Thomas Playford also served as Premier of South Australia

Thomas Playford

c. 1910, Photograph, B 756

Thomas Playford.

Sir Thomas Playford

Hammer & Co., c. 1938, Photograph, B 7756

Sir Thomas Playford, 33rd Premier of South Australia grew up at Norton Summit. He was Premier from 1938 to 1965 and became the longest serving Premier in all Australian states. He encouraged industry to relocate to SA during World War II. Playford's policies allowed cheap electricity to factories, minimal taxes and he kept wages low to make South Australia more attractive to industrial investment. He attracted migrant workers and tripled South Australia's population in thirty years. He promoted the state and his gravestone states "A man who did good things".

Sir Thomas Playford

1962, Photograph, B 15074

Sir Thomas Playford, Premier of South Australia looking at a map. Information received from a researcher advises that 'it is a map showing the positions of oil exploration sites in Australia and it was located in his office. Once a month, I handlettered labels in white ink on dark blue board, cut them up with a sharp knife (before scalpels became available) and updated the maps in the offices of the Premier, The Minister and the Director. When gas and oil were discovered many years later, I was sworn to secrecy for six months while I worked on publications and displays that had to be ready for the public release of the discoveries. Unlike most of the other states, in SA everything was discovered by the State Government exploration team and then leased to private enterprise'.

Sir Thomas Playford

1962, Photograph, B 15075

Sir Thomas Playford, Premier of South Australia and Mr CW Branson (Chamber of Manufacturers) at the opening of the 1962 Homes Exhibition. May 3, 1962

Sir Thomas Playford

1962, Photograph, B 15076

Sir Thomas Playford, Premier of South Australia opening a new Cox-Foys store. Left to right: Mr NE Forster (General Manager for SA), Sir Frank Richardson (Chairman and Managing Director of Cox Brothers Australia Limited), Sir Thomas Playford (Premier of South Australia) November 5, 1962. The department store Foys & Gibson moved to new premises and became Cox Foys

Sir Thomas Playford

1962, Photograph, B 15077

Sir Thomas Playford, Premier of South Australia opening the new extensions to the National Gallery. On the right is the Director of the Gallery, Mr R Campbell. March 10, 1962. Mr Campbell was Director of the National Gallery of South Australia from 1951 - 1967 where he promoted art in Australia and Australian art in the world

Sir Thomas Playford

Maegraith, Kerwin, 1951, Artwork, B 21774

Sketch of Sir Thomas Playford, Premier of South Australia.

George J. Plenty

Talma Studio, c. 1912, Photograph, B 35047

George J. Plenty, Superintendent of the Hindmarsh Volunteer Fire Brigade.

John Ambrose Plunkett

c. 1900, Photograph, B 3824

Mr John Ambrose Plumkett Deputy Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages.

William Plummer

c. 1905, Photograph, B 33754

William Plummer: Council Ranger at Penola; in Oddfellows regalia.

William Plummer Jr

c. 1905, Photograph, B 33756

William Plummer Jr.

Rev. James Pollitt

Adelaide Photographic Co., c. 1864, Photograph, B 17909

Rev. James Pollitt of St. Luke's Church, Adelaide.

Rev. James Pollitt

Duryea, Townsend, c. 1865, Photograph, B 48714

Rev. James Pollitt, Incumbent of St. Luke's Church, Whitmore Squalre, 1854-81.

Henry Martyn Pollitt, son of Rev. James Pollitt

Jones, Henry, c. 1869, Photograph, B 6148

Canon Henry Martyn Pollitt (1840-1908) was born in Jamaica and was named after the great missionary to India. He married Caroline Carleton whose mother was the writer of the original Song of Australia. He was incumbent of All Saint's at Hindmarsh for 33 years and was honorary Canon of St Peter's Cathedral. He was educated at St Peter's College and ordained a deacon in 1864. He was known as a courteous and kindly gentleman, interested in church history and was also a prominent chess player at state level.