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An unknown woman

Batchelder's Portrait Rooms, c. 1865, Photograph, B 63063

COSTUME: Studio view of a young woman residing in Victoria, she is wearing afternoon dress, name not known.

An unknown woman

Batchelder's Portrait Rooms, c. 1867, Photograph, B 63069

COSTUME: Studio view of a mature woman residing in Victoria, she is wearing a full skirted afternoon dress decorated with a cameo brooch, name not known.

An unknown man

c. 1860, Photograph, B 63100

Ambrotype portrait of an unknown man, seated at a table. The buttons on his waistcoat and his ring are tinted gold.

Thomas Leslie, gardener at Anlaby

c. 1940, Photograph, PRG 1663/3/1

Thomas Leslie, gardener at Anlaby homestead near Kapunda.

Edward Gibbon Wakefield

c. 1840, Photograph, B 63785

Edward Gibbon Wakefield; a photographic reproduction of an engraving showing Edward Wakefield sitting in a chair with two dogs resting beside him.

James and Isabella Taylor, photographers

1884, Photograph, B 63885

Photographers, James and Isabella Taylor (nee Morrow), standing outside their photography studio in Gawler.

The Mitchell family

c. 1914, Photograph, B 61819

Members of the Mitchell family in their garden at Goodwood. L-R: Agnes; Mary; Norman; Clare; Robert, founder of the Smith of Dunesk Mission at Beltana; Annie, sitting in the foreground.

Four girls from the Packer family

Dimond Studio, c. 1910, Photograph, B 62029

A studio view of the Packer children. Back row Lucy, b.1902 and Vera, b. 1899. Front row Meta, b. 1906 and Mina, b. c.1908. Daughters of George and Anna Packer (nee Duschka). George was a market gardener at Highbury, S.A. (Information supplied by a researcher).

Start of a fishing trip

1912, Photograph, B 62374

GENERAL: Five men photographed in an open tourer car as they begin their journey to the Coorong to enjoy a fishing and camping holiday. The car is a Dodson Valveless vehicle (Registered No.2575) driven by Napier Birks outside his mansion "Braestead" on Greenhill Road.

David Beveridge Adamson

c. 1875, Photograph, B 54102

David Beveridge Adamson, 1823-1891 with a Gregorian telescope. A machinist, implement maker and astronomer.

Dorothy Elizabeth Mortlock

Advertiser Newspapers Ltd, c. 1955, Photograph, B 54556

Dorothy Elizabeth Mortlock (nee Beech), wife of John Andrew Tennant Mortlock.

Unknown man, possibly a fisherman

c. 1890, Photograph, B 55072

Opalotype portrait of an unknown man, possibly a fisherman, wearing a checked shirt and a hat. This photograph has been overpainted.

Studio view of a baby and a dog

c. 1912, Photograph, B 55442

GENERAL: Studio portrait of a baby and a Pug dog.

Sir Edric Bastyan and Walter Bridgland

News Limited, 1966, Photograph, B 55806

South Australian Governor, Sir Edric Bastyan and the Lord Mayor of Adelaide, Walter Bridgland, at Government House on 18 July 1966.

Elizabeth Bridgland

c. 1966, Photograph, B 55810

Elizabeth Bridgland, nee Saunders. South Australian poet and author.

The Cross family

1895, Photograph, B 56064

The Cross family: L-R Susan (nee Williams), Walter William Charles (b.5 July 1874), Verena Ella (b.12 February 1880) and Charles. Charles and Susan married at Bowden on 5 March 1868, their first child William Charles was born 5 December 1868 and died on 8 December 1872. Charles died at Brompton on 11 December 1895 aged 80 years. Walter married Clara Matters on 17 December 1902.

Emily Proud

c. 1930, Photograph, B 56120

Emily Proud, born at Islington, South Australia, on 9 July 1851, the eldest child of Thomas Good and Mary Ann Goode. A member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and an agitator for women's suffrage, she married Cornelius Proud on 8 March 1882, he delivering the petition for women's suffrage to the S.A. Parliament in 1894, as only a man was permitted to do so. Emily and Cornelius had six children between 1883 and 1891, but three died before their second birthday. Emily died at Blackwood on 28 September 1933.

Mrs Hamley

c. 1860, Photograph, B 56173

Matilda Whyte Hamley, nee Wilson.

Sir Charles Goode and his family

c. 1890, Photograph, B 56232

Thomas Good

Edwards, B. J., c. 1875, Photograph, B 56235

Thomas Good, owner of a draper's store in Mount Barker, with a second store in Adelaide known a 'Good, Toms & Co'.

Cornelius Proud

c. 1880, Photograph, B 56241

Cornelius Proud, born Bickerton, Yorkshire, on 22 September 1853, the son of William and Ann Proud. He arrived South Australia with his wife, Mary Ann nee Lines, and brother, John Henry Proud, in 1875. Following the death of Mary Ann, he married Emily Good in 1882. Initially employed on the literary staff of the Register newspaper he was a founding member and Honorary Secretary of the Adelaide Stock Exchange in 1883, he then spent the years 1885 to 1890 in Broken Hill during the silver boom. In 1894 he delivered the Women's Suffrage petition to the South Australian Parliament.

Women of the Proud family

Gall, Ernest, c. 1910, Photograph, B 56242

Women of the Proud family; Left to Right: Annie Proud, the only surviving child of Cornelius Proud and his first wife Mary Ann Lines; Emily Dorothea Proud, who was awarded the Catherine Helen Spence overseas scholarship for women, later becoming a lawyer she married Gordon Pavy; Millicent Proud, graduated M.A. from Adelaide University in 1915; Emily Proud nee Good, the second wife of Cornelius Proud and mother of the three younger women; and Katherine Lily Proud, in 1910 became first woman Diploma in Commerce graduate from Adelaide University, she married orchardist, Alec Magarey, lived in Blackwood, and was made a life member of the Country Fire Service.