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Unidentified Woman
Opalotype portrait of an unidentified woman.
Actors
Daguerreotype of a group of actors associated with the Adelaide stage. According to Jane Messenger in 'A century in focus: South Australian photography, 1840s-1940s', this daguerreotype differs from others of the period due to its informal nature and the way it flaunts contemporary social and pictorial conventions. Portraits of multiple figures were unusual at the time and usually reserved for family groups. This was due to technical complications related to focal distance, plate sizes and exposure times. Messenger suggests that this image is largely experimental in its composition, and is designed to reveal the photographer's sophisticated image creation skills. (p.30)
Portrait
Unidentified child.
Portrait
Unidentified child.
Carl Faehrmann
Studio view of Carl Faehrmann with golf clubs and a trophy. The inscription on the back reads: 'Carl Faehrmann age 36 years. Oct 6/10/27'. Photo by Thelma Duryea, Adelaide.
Nurse
Studio portrait of a nurse.
Mahomet Allum advertisement
An advertisement and portrait describing the healing powers of Mohamet Allum, camel-driver, herbalist, and philanthropist.
Rundle Street, Adelaide
Rundle Street, Adelaide, east corner of Stephens Place, featuring Charles Birks' store. In 1864 Charles Birks started a drapery store in Hindley Street in partnership with David Robin. Later, they moved to this Rundle Street premises and traded as Robin & Birks. (see B 2493) This partnership was dissolved in 1876 and Charles continued alone. Staff are posing for the photographer in front of the store, which has extended into the premises next door. Perhaps the man in the top hat is the proprietor? See his portrait at B 7108. See B 1588 for changes made to Charles Birks and surrounding stores.
Hindley Street, Adelaide
[General description] City shops seen from the middle of the intersection of King William, Hindley and Rundle Streets. Businesses are: On the corner is H. Muirhead watchmaker and goldsmith with a Portrait Rooms upstairs, at Number 29 is A. Arch & Company, hat makers, and at Number 31-33 is S. Allen, tent and tarpaulin maker. [On back of photograph] 'Acre 78 / Corner (S.W.) of Hindley Street and King William Street / 1873-76'. [See also B 1272, B 4684, and B 143]
West Terrace
A Chrysler Valiant drives past Para Motors on the corner of Waymouth Street and West Terrace, 8 October 1971. Includes a sign with a portrait of radio personality Bob Francis giving his endorsement of the business.
Staff of Mann's Motors
Staff portrait Mann's Motors Limited. 71-9 Franklin Street, south side.
Maughan Church Choir
From text on verso of original photograph: "Central Methodist mission (Maughan Church, Franklin Street) Maughan Church Oratoria Choir, performing Mendelssohn's 'Elijah', conducted by Montague Finlay. First choir in Adelaide to perform Oratorio. 1933". However The Advertiser reported that Mendelssohn's "Elijah" was performed by the choir on 18 July 1934 as a benefit performance for their organist, F. Finlay, who was leaving for London to study music, and that Haydn's "The Creation" was performed on 4 October 1933 in aid of Central Methodist Mission funds. The piano accompanist, Melva Bartle, is standing centre front with a posy of flowers.
Flinders Street, Adelaide
Flinders Street, Adelaide, south side, on the east corner of Molton Street. On the ground floor of the building is A. Molton, picture frame maker, and on the first floor is Captain Sweet's photographic studio, the Imperial Portrait Rooms. The men posing in front of the building would be employees of the firms.
Gouger Street
Gouger Street, north side, the right side of the hotel is 28 yards east of Moonta Street. Left side abuts Talbot Lane. Frontage of the two storey part of the hotel on Gouger Street is 13 yards. Talbot Lane is 9 yards. This photograph shows the Talbot Inn around 1895-1899 when the proprietor was Frank C Moore. People are standing on a small wrought iron balcony adjoining the first storey. Several people, horses and a wagon can be seen in the street outside the Talbot Hotel.
King William Street
King William Street, east side,northern corner of King William Street and Halifax Street, December 12th 1952, frontage of building is 5.5 yards. The right side of the corner building abuts Halifax Street. No earlier photograph available. Corner building was modernised during 1952. The photograph shows Rainsford Portrait Studio and a dry cleaning business next to the corner building
Nurney House
[General description] This is the text of the 'Mail' article (cited below) which accompanied this image: ' Full of that old world charm that comes only with age, Nurney House, Kingston terrace, North Adelaide, can claim to be one of the oldest and most enchanting houses in South Australia. Its quaint design and rambling roominess breathes the beauty of yesteryear, and in its garden bloom trees and shrubs that are little less than a century old. Capt. Charles Hervey Bagot, who built the house in 1846, came to South Australia six years earlier. Nurney House was renowned for its hospitality, and since it was built only the Bagot family has owned it. Most of the house and a 12 foot high limestone fence was built from the stone garnered from the acre and a half of land. The house comprises 20 rooms with numerous outbuildings. The main part of the building is two story, but a long, single story wing juts out from the left side. It has a flat roof, and in the long ago after-dinner coffee was served there. When Capt. Bagot died Mrs. Christopher M. Bagot became its chatelaine, and the present owner, Miss M. Bagot has lived at Nurney House for the greater part of her life. The wainscotting and doors are of beautiful Singapore and cedar, and all the wonderful old furniture which is also of cedar has been in the house since 1846. There is a suite of underground rooms, and in a side hall the trapdoor to a great underground tank is seen. Water is still drawn for the house by a bucket attached to a long rope. Miss Bagot can remember when the park at the back of Kingston terrace was a lake where wild fowl had their habitation. The house now commands a glorious view of Adelaide and the foothills, but the land which is now all built over was once just bush, and on the way to Adelaide wildflowers lined the tracks. Nurney House was called after Nurney Castle, County Clare, Ireland, the home of the Bagot family. In the dining room the portraits of eight generations of men and women of this family provide a link with the past, and a quaint pencilled sketch of Nurney House when it was first built shows how the garden has grown in the 83 years. A vine which was planted in 1846 now trails its great branches over the verandah, and almond trees and olives which were brought out from Ireland in pots are now monarchs of the garden. Norfolk Island pines and all manner of beautiful shrubs lend their shade to the garden.' In 1930 the house was significantly enlarged and remodelled in an eclectic Italianate style by Captain Bagot's great grandson, influential South Australian architect Walter Hervey Bagot, for his own residence. (See B 5926) [On back of photograph] 'Acre 1028 / Nurney House / Stanley Street, north side / January 1929 / Site: The house stands back about 30 yards from the street / Left side is 70 yards east of Lefevre Terrace / Frontage of two storey portion: 14.5 yards (A one storey wing runs off to the east) / Built in 1846 by Captain Charles Harvey Bagot / named after Nurney Castle, the family home in Ireland / See 'Mail', January 1929, p. 12 / demolished in 1930 (see B 5926) / Reproduced in 'Mail', January 5, 1929'.
Sir Donald Bradman
Sir Donald Bradman as a young cricketer.
Sir Donald Bradman
Sir Donald Bradman international cricketer recognised as the greatest Test batsman of all time with a batting average of 99.94. His playing career spanned twenty years.
Nineteenth Century Man
[General description] Studio portrait of a nineteenth century man holding a book and seated at a desk. He is possibly wearing a clerical collar. A name on the back of the photograph says W.J. Woodcock. [On back of photograph] Unidentified man showing costume. W.J. Woodcock.
Nineteenth Century Child
Studio portrait of a nineteenth century child.
Nineteenth Century Woman
Studio portrait of nineteenth century woman.
Nineteenth Century Woman
Studio portrait of a nineteenth century woman.
Nineteenth Century Woman
Studio portrait of a nineteenth century woman.
Nineteenth Century Woman
Studio portrait of a nineteenth century woman.
Nineteenth Century Woman
Studio portrait of a nineteenth century woman.
Nineteenth Century Woman
Studio portrait of a nineteenth century woman.
Nineteenth Century Woman
Studio portrait of a nineteenth century woman.
Nineteenth Century Woman
Studio portrait of a nineteenth century woman.
Nineteenth Century Woman
Studio portrait of a nineteenth century woman.
"Dear Charlie"
A studio portrait of a young boy known as Dear Charlie.