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Frank Potts

Duryea, Townsend, c. 1863, Photograph, B 45437

Frank Potts of Langhorne Creek - Lady Ayer's brother.

Miss Potts

Prosser, J. H., c. 1882, Photograph, B 45453

Miss Potts, later Mrs Willy Berry Smith.

Miss Bertha Wenzel

Stump & Co., c. 1888, Photograph, B 45438

Miss Bertha Wenzel, holding her 'Book of English Poetry' published in 1865, the year she was born. Bertha married Fred Potts of Langhorne's Creek on 30th April 1889. The book of poetry was given to her by Fred's older sister Anne Potts (her sister-in-law and first cousin).

Lieutenant J.W. Powell

c. 1899, Photograph, B 19200/3

Lieutenant J.W. Powell of Mount Gambier, killed in South Africa, February 1900.

Frederick William Preece

c. 1900, Photograph, B 31281

Frederick William Preece, bookseller.

Alice Eunice von W. Preiss

Fruhling Studio, c. 1910, Photograph, B 36349

Alice Eunice von Waldeck Preiss, born 1890.

Carl & Florentine Preiss

Solomon, S., 1887, Photograph, B 36353

Carl August Preiss and his wife Florentine Christine Theodore (nee Bleeser).

Sir Archibald Grenfell Price

c. 1970, Photograph, B 35383

Sir Archibald Grenfell Price.

Henry Price

c. 1846, Photograph, B 14935

Henry Price and Isabella Price (nee Young) were pioneers in the Port Lincoln area between 1849-1853. Isabella was 17 years old when she arrived in Adelaide in 1839. Her father had died so she arrived with her mother Catherine and several brothers and sisters. In 1845 she met Henry Price and they married in 1846. Henry had been a sheep drover and a Justice of the Peace in Clare. They moved to land at Todd River, Koppio on the Eyre Peninsula. Henry wrote a diary telling of their difficult life.They had four children but lost their son George in infancy. By 1855 they were forced to give up their land. Henry loved to Bathurst to a legal position and Isabella joined her mother in Adelaide and developed her musical abilities. Henry was heartbroken when Isabella died at 51 and rued their separation by fate

Henry Strong Price

Melbourne Photographic Company, c. 1910, Photograph, B 9687

Henry Strong Price (1825-1889) was a pioneer sheep pastoralist best known as founder and proprietor of Wilpena Pound. "Harry" Price arrived in South Australia on board "Fortitude" in 1842. During his life he worked in the Mid North, Eyre Peninsula and Flinders Ranges. Price was able to buy Wilpena Station in 1861 and ran seventeen thousand sheep, later copper was mined at Blinman. In his later years he lived at Delamere at Mitcham.

Isabella Price

c. 1850, Photograph, B 14934

Isabella Price (nee Young) and Henry Price were pioneers in the Port Lincoln area between 1849-1853. Isabella was 17 years old when she arrived in Adelaide in 1839. Her father had died so she arrived with her mother Catherine and several brothers and sisters. In 1845 she met Henry Price and they married in 1846. Henry had been a sheep drover and a Justice of the Peace in Clare. They moved to land at Todd River, Koppio on the Eyre Peninsula. Henry wrote a diary telling of their difficult life.They had four children but lost their son George in infancy. By 1855 they were forced to give up their land. Henry loved to Bathurst and Isabella joined her mother in Adelaide and developed her musical abilities. She died at 51

John Lloyd Price

1925, Photograph, B 2644

John Lloyd Price He was Agent General for South Australia, and a Federal Member of Parliament, holding the seat of Boothby from 1928 until his death in 1941. Reproduced in the 'Chronicle', April 25th, 1925.

John Lloyd Price

c. 1925, Photograph, B 4080

John Lloyd Price.

Thomas Price

Duryea, Townsend, c. 1900, Photograph, B 20148

Thomas Price, Premier of South Australia 1905-1909.

Thomas Price

c. 1905, Photograph, B 21178

Thomas Price, Premier of South Australia 1905-1909, in the Premier's Office at Parliament House.

Thomas Price

c. 1905, Photograph, B 28648

Thomas Price, Premier of South Australia 1905-1909.

Thomas Price

c. 1905, Photograph, B 30852

Thomas Price, Premier of South Australia 1905-1909.

Przygoda, M.E. (nee Baker)

Tuttle & Co., c. 1890, Photograph, B 38213

Przygoda, M. E. (nee Baker).

Wilhelm August Przygoda

Duryea, Townsend, c. 1890, Photograph, B 38223

Wilhelm August Przygoda (miller by trade) Lived in Acre 231, Flinders Street, Adelaide.

Mrs. Pullen

1880, Photograph, B 25100

Mrs. Pullen.

Hubert Rutherford Purnell

c. 1940, Photograph, B 15055

Hubert Rutherford Purnell, Librarian, Public Library of South Australia 1913-1944. He was appointed Principal Librarian of the Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery of South Australia and emigrated from England in 1913 to take up this position. He enlisted in 1916 as a Bombardier and embarked from Melbourne on the HMAT A15 "Port Sydney" in 1917. He was actively involved in the establishment of Friends of the Public Library Society in Adelaide. He created the country lending service