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Sir Charles Kingsford Smith with three aviators

c. 1928, Photograph, B 63273

PORTRAIT: Sir Charles Kingsford Smith stands on the wing of a Bristol aircraft with, left to right: Bob Hitchcock, Keith Anderson and Charlie Ulm standing in front.

Miss Isabel Cooke

c. 1890, Photograph, B 63298

PORTRAIT: Miss Isa [Isabel] Cooke, an early resident of St Peters, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.

Miss Isa Cooke and Kate Robertson

c. 1914, Photograph, B 63299

PORTRAIT: Miss Isa Cooke and her daughter Kate Robertson admire a tree in a garden, possibly at St Peters, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.

Flora and Dorothy Windle

c. 1918, Photograph, B 63302

PORTRAIT: Flora and Dorothy Windle resting amongst some rocks, location not known.

Theo. M. Pflaum

c. 1916, Photograph, B 63304

PORTRAIT: Theo. M. Pflaum, aged 22 years, a lieutenant in the 8th Machine Gun Company of the Australian Imperial Force. He was killed in battle during World War I on 24th September 1917.

Dorothy Windle

Stump & Co., c. 1916, Photograph, B 63306

PORTRAIT: Dorothy Windle, later Broadbent.

Gladys ('Girlie') Randell

Duryea, Townsend, c. 1900, Photograph, B 63307

PORTRAIT: Gladys ('Girlie') Randell, daughter of Captain R. M. Randell, a river boat captain.

Gladys ('Girlie') Randell

c. 1916, Photograph, B 63308

PORTRAIT: Gladys ('Girlie') Randell wearing her nurses uniform; Gladys was the daughter of Captain R. M. Randell, a river boat captain, and the grand daughter of Captain W. R. Randell.

Mary and Elizabeth Randell

c. 1910, Photograph, B 63309

PORTRAIT: Mary and Elizabeth Randell, daughters of Dr. Alfred Randell.

Phyllis Dawson

c. 1905, Photograph, B 63318

PORTRAIT: A young girl identified as being Phyllis Dawson photographed looking at her photograph album, her pet possum is sitting on her left shoulder.

Dr. John Tregenza

c. 1980, Photograph, B 63412

PORTRAIT: Dr. John Tregenza, historian and author of Adelaide, South Australia.

PORTRAIT: Studio view of 'Sticks' Godfrey of Orroroo wearing his uniform as an enlisted soldier during World War 1. According to a researcher, there is only one enlistment from Orrorroo by the name of Godfrey and that is Herbert Alfred GODFREY.

Emeritus Professor Colin Horne

c. 1991, Photograph, B 63420

PORTRAIT: Emeritus Professor Colin Horne, who held the post of Jury Professor of English Language and Literature at Adelaide University from 1958 until his retirement in 1967; this photograph was taken during a function arranged by the Friends of the State Library of South Australia. According to his son, Richard, Colin Horne retired in 1976, not 1967. Colin Horne was born in 1912 and retired aged 65.

William Symon

1879, Photograph, B 63465

PORTRAIT: William Symon, younger brother of Sir Josiah; he was called to the Bar at Grays Inn, London in 1878 and later practised in South Australia with Sir Josiah.

Charles Symon

c. 1914, Photograph, B 63466

PORTRAIT: Charles Symon, the eldest son of Sir Josiah Symon.

Bill Mayman

Dimond Studio, c. 1920, Photograph, B 63535

PORTRAIT: Bill Mayman, a football player recruited from Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, who captained Sturt during 1913-15 and 1919 and led the club to its first and second flags.

Jack Tredrea

Dimond Studio, c. 1920, Photograph, B 63536

PORTRAIT: Jack Tredrea, a great South Australian football player who played for South Adelaide and captained the team from 1911-1915, and was vice-captain in 1909-10 and 1920-1; in 1923 he became a non-playing coach.

Dan Moriarty

Pulford Bros., c. 1920, Photograph, B 63537

PORTRAIT: Dan Moriarty, a great South Australian football player who played for South Adelaide. He was selected for the State team during his first season and played twenty-two consecutive state games until his retirement in 1925. He won the Magarey medal in his first three seasons of 1919, 1920, and 1921.

Tom Leahy

Dimond Studio, c. 1920, Photograph, B 63538

PORTRAIT: Tom Leahy, a South Australian football player who was regarded during the first quarter of the twentieth century as being the champion ruckman of Australia; he played for West Adelaide from 1903 to 1909, and for North Adelaide from 1910 to 1921, he also played in the State team from 1905 to 1921. He received the Magarey medal in 1913 and was also runner-up three times (1908-9 and 1911); after retirement he coached the Norwood team for three years.

Steve McKee, football player

Dimond Studio, c. 1920, Photograph, B 63539

PORTRAIT: Studio view of a South Australian football player identified as being Steve McKee.

Malcolm Fraser

Swenn Studios, c. 1970, Photograph, B 63549

PORTRAIT: Malcolm Fraser photographed during a visit to Adelaide, possibly for Australia Day celebrations.

William Gray driving a buggy cart

c. 1905, Photograph, B 63558

PORTRAIT: William Gray, the first Father Christmas at the Magic Cave in John Martins in 1905; he is photographed wearing his costume at the reins of a horse drawn buggy with members of his family as passengers.

Prima Donna Madame Elsa Stralia

c. 1922, Photograph, B 63475

PORTRAIT: Elsa Stralia, a famous Prima Donna who taught at the Conservatorium, University of Adelaide.

Elizabeth Ho at her farewell function

State Library of South Australia, 1999, Photograph, B 63567

PORTRAIT: Elizabeth Ho, Associate Director, Library and Information Services at the State Library of South Australia, photographed receiving gifts during her farewell function before her secondment to the Hawke Centre, University of South Australia.

Family group, Christmas 1900

1900, Photograph, B 63569

PORTRAIT: A family group taken at Christmas in the garden, possibly at George Street, Unley; Back, left to right: William Steele Adamson and Percy Sabine, seated, left to right: Priscilla Sabine (nee Barkla), Gertrude May Sabine, Thomas Frederick Sabine, Marcella Ragless, front: Ralph Thomas Sabine.

Ada, Eva, and Ethel Sowter

c. 1890, Photograph, B 63576

PORTRAIT: Studio view of Ada, Eva, and Ethel Sowter of Adelaide, South Australia. The three girls in the photograph would be the daughters of John and Mary Ann Sowter. Their children were Alfred Ernest b.1873, Caroline b.1876, George Henry, b.1878, Eva May b.1880 at Prospect, Ethel Maud b.1883 at Nailsworth and Ada b.1888 at Nailsworth. John's parents were Samuel Sowter and Caroline Foyle. Caroline arrived in South Australia in March 1848. [Information provided by R. Foyle.]

Portraits of pioneers

c. 1880, Photograph, B 63595

ALBUM: A small leatherbound family album incribed inside the front cover 'Fredk Snewin', suggesting that most of the photos are of Snewin family members. (The exception are the two commercial portraits at the back of Adam Lindsay Gordon and his wife). Most of the subjects are unidentified, although a separate listing provides details regarding ten of the names and some photographic information. There is no photograph number 29. To see individual photographs in this album do a NUMBER search on B 63595/1-35.

Private Newbold and Private Clarke

1902, Photograph, B 63724

PORTRAIT: Private H. H. Newbold and Private J. G. Clarke, photographed in England whilst members of the South Australia Detachment of the Australian Coronation Corps assembled for the coronation of King Edward VII in 1902; both men had served in the South African War with the 2nd South Australian Mounted Rifles.

James Martin of Gawler

c. 1900, Photograph, B 63891

PORTRAIT: James Martin, the owner of a foundry in Gawler where locomotives were manufactured.

Frances Awcock

c. 1996, Photograph, B 63916

PORTRAIT: Frances Awcock, Director of the State Library of South Australia from May 20 1991 to July 31 1997.

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