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South Australian pioneers 1840 [mosaic]

Duryea, Townsend, 1872, Photograph, B 7865

A collection of studio portraits under the title 'South Australian Pioneers 1838', with 'T. Duryea, Adelaide, 1872' at the bottom. This mosaic includes portraits of Governor Sir John Hindmarsh and Governor George Gawler above 127 portraits, and the handwritten names of the colonists are listed under the ships they arrived below the portraits.

Hawkes Family photograph album

c. 1870, Photograph, B 72257/1-83

Album of the Hawkes Family, possibly containing photographs of Hawkes, Stebbing and Whittington families, and English relatives and siblings of Henry Hawkes and Francis William Hawkes, who married Mary Jane Whittington. The donor, Clifford Henry Hawkes, born 1898, indicated that the album belonged to his grandfather, Henry Hawkes. The album includes a one page family tree of Clifford Hawkes, compiled by the State Library, photographs of the original album (which has not been retained), several in memoriam cards (photos 56-59), and two Children's League certificates, belonging to Clifford Hawkes and Harold Hawkes. Most photographs are un-captioned, and a small selection have been digitised. The album is an interesting source of examples of carte-de visite and cabinet print portrait photography, along with one tintype photograph, by studios in Adelaide in the nineteenth century. These studios include H. (Henry) Jones, King William Street, Adelaide, L'Amico Fritz, 62 Rundle Street, Adelaide, S. (Saul) Solomon, 51 Rundle Street, Adelaide, P.J. Marchant, Waymouth Street, Adelaide, Edward Farndell, 83 Hindley Street Adelaide, W. J. Lott, Paris Photographic Co., 164 Rundle Street, Spicer Adey, 83 Hindley Street Adelaide, San Francisco Photo Co., Glen Osmond Road, Parkside, Hammer & Co. Art Studio, 6 Rundle Street, Adelaide, W. H. Hammer, Artist Photographer, 172 Rundle Street, Adelaide, Captain Sweet Studio, Flinders Street, Adelaide, T. (Townsend) Duryea, 66 & 68 King William Street, Adelaide, Thomas Adcock, Adelaide, James R. Dobson & Co. Photo Artists, Temple of Light, 44 Rundle Street, Adelaide, G. H. Knight, portrait and landscape photographers, and Melbourne Photographic Co., 16, 18 & 20 Rundle Street, Adelaide. The album shows the styles of clothing worn by babies, children and adults in the nineteenth century.

Floral Album

Ford (Family), 1869, Photograph, PRG 1543/1/1-69

Photograph album of carte-de-visites and cabinet prints including tintypes of the Ford Family of Burra, with 'Floral Album' embossed in gold on the front cover, together with two loose additional photographs in an envelope. The name of the photographer or photographic company is noted in brackets, where known.

Hoffmann photographs, box 10

Hoffmann, Charles, c. 1930, Photograph, B 73335/1-18

Part of a collection of glass plate negatives which have been transferred from the National Trust of South Australia, Victor Harbor Branch. The images comprise cattle, a waterway and the Memorial Gardens at Victor Harbor. Includes portraits of two young girls and three ladies, assumed to be all from the same family. An inscription on the box reads 'Madge's wedding dress'. The negatives were originally from Charles Hoffmann [assumed to be Hoffmann Photographics, Victor Harbor]. Eclipse plates.

Photographs of Cropley and Player family members

Cropley (Family), c. 1865, Photograph, PRG 1441/8

Three ambrotypes of members of the Player family, together with later images, and a photographer's card.

Photographs of A. Simpson & Son staff and products

A. Simpson & Son, c. 1880, Photograph, BRG 9/36/135-148

Early photographs of A. Simpson & Son staff and products, including staff group portraits, displays, and manufacturing equipment. See below for details.

Survivors of the 'Gothenburg' shipwreck

Sullivan, Tom, c. 1904, Artwork, B 46876

Pencil on paper sketch of the wreck of the 'Gothenburg', comprising 9 portraits, probably copied from photographs, superimposed onto a background illustration of the sinking ship. There is a small inscription 'The Gothenburg' in fine white lettering on the vessel. The portraits represent 9 survivors including (numbered 1-9) Harris, Fitzgerald, Cleland, Thomas, Cockram, Kruger, Campbell, Hogan and Brazil. The portrait of Campbell is central to the work and considerably larger than the other portraits. It is assumed the work was commissioned by the Campbell family. The paper on which artwork is made is watermarked '1904'.

South Australian pioneers [mosaic]

Duryea, Townsend, 1872, Photograph, B 47770

This mosaic holds 581 portraits, and represents a combined group of those portraits Duryea depicted in separate mosaics featuring male colonists who arrived in South Australia as adults in 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839 and 1840. All but three of the portraits on B 47770 are also included in Duryea's largest mosaic at B 8235.

Photograph album of the Parker and Davidson Families

Parker (Family), 1915, Photograph, B 71787/1-200

The album shows aspects of station life at various sheep properties in the far north east of South Australia and the Broken Hill region, among them Buckalow, Bimbowrie, Oulnina Park, Telechie, Burta, Topar, Tantallon and Yalcowinna as well as visits to other stations in New South Wales and Victoria namely Morundah, Widgeongully and Tolarno. Three young women thought to be Grace Langloh Parker (1895-1987) and her sisters Wilga Maud (1898-?) and Una Geraldine Davidson, nee Parker (1901-1986) are central to many of the photographs and it may be that the album was compiled by Grace Parker. Holiday visits were made to Victor Harbor, Port Elliot, Inman Valley, Second Valley, Mount Gambier, Portland Victoria, Sydney and Tasmania. A number of photographs relate to the BHP towns, Iron Knob and Broken Hill. Two of the Parker daughters, thought to be Wilga and Grace, accompanied their Mother on a voyage from Sydney to the Celebes and Java in 1926, including sightseeing at Macassar in the Celebes, the Mount Bromo Volcano, Sand Sea, Borobodur, and other places in Java with the homeward voyage via Singapore, Port Darwin, Thursday Island and Cairns.

Photograph album of the Ive and Bagot families

1890, Photograph, B 28519/100-211

Photograph album thought to have been compiled by Eileen Dubois Ive (later Mrs John Frederick Bagot) daughter of Charles William Ive and Agnes Dubois. The album contains photographs of many family members and friends, at 'Acton', Woodville and other places, showing fund raising and commemoration days during and after the first World War, such as Cheer Up Society work and marches, events such as Repatriation Day, French Red Cross Day and the opening of the Soldiers' War Memorial on North Terrace. Eileen married John Frederick Bagot in 1915 before his departure to France with the 13th Light Horse brigade and this album includes a number of photographs presumably taken by John Bagot, of fellow officers, places in Egypt, France and Palestine, and of the Camel Corps. The album contains five additional loose photographs, six postcards and one newspaper cutting regarding the sale of Stradbroke, the Magill home of Mr C. L. J. Dubois (maternal grandfather of Eileen Ive) and these have been placed at the end of the album. The postcards and newspaper clipping have not been digitised.

Egypt during World War I

Trengove, Arthur M., 1914, Photograph, PRG 1480/2/1-112

Records of the Reverend Arthur M. Trengove comprising quarter plate size lantern slides of soldiers, horses and scenery in Port Said, Rafah, Kantara and Cairo in Egypt during his time in World War 1. 98 items. See CONTENTS for more information and details.

Photographs of company premises, staff and merchandise

Colton, Palmer and Preston, c. 1907, Photograph, BRG 67/14

Approximately 170 photographs and postcard images of Colton, Palmer & Preston Ltd. premises in Currie Street, Adelaide, on Port Road, Allenby Gardens and Gepps Cross; including scenes at Currie Street of the February 1907 fire, new building, leather goods factory, celebrations for Armistice Day 1918, Port Adelaide steel yard and bulk store, Adelaide warehouse interior scenes, Harrold Colton & Co. staff in 1909 and later, social functions, sporting functions, cricketing and football teams.

Records relating to the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land in 1948 and the Commonwealth Government Expedition to western Arnhem Land (Oenpelli) 1949

Mountford, Charles P., 1926, Manuscript, PRG 1218/17

Material collected during the historic American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land (AASEAL), Northern Territory. Papers include multiple field notes, diaries, correspondence, accounts, original artworks, maps and documentary photographs including additional text with descriptions, meanings and diagrams, newspaper articles, typescript records of Aboriginal songs, sound recordings and other sundries. Also contains a journal relating to the complementary expedition to western Arnhem Land the following year. See below for further details.

Photographs relating to Hocking family

Hocking, Rosemary, c. 1880, Photograph, PRG 1644/1/1-22

Photographs of cars, places and people relating to the Hocking family.

World War One Light Horse photographs

c. 1915, Photograph, SRG 435/1/191-234

Negatives (including photographic prints of the first 17 of the negatives) and prints of an unknown serviceman showing First World War Australian Light Horse camps in the Middle East, the photographer's horse and other horses, troops eating and swimming, grain dumps, landscapes of the Jordan River and valley, and mosques in Jerusalem. Selected images have been digitised. See below for details.

Photographs of Sir Ross and Keith Smith's flight from England to Australia

Furlong, John S. B., c. 1919, Photograph, PRG 1701/1/1-34

Photographs collected by John Furlong relating to the England to Australia Air Race of 1919 and the victorious crew comprising brothers Captain Ross Smith and Lieutenant Keith Smith, and mechanics Sergeants Jim Bennett and Wally Shiers, with their aircraft, the Vickers Vimy G-EAOU bomber. See below for details.

Photographs of the 1994 Adelaide Festival

Fisher, E. M., 1994, Photograph, PRG 1366/67

Photographs of events attended by Betty Fisher and other guests and attendees at the 1994 Adelaide Festival, including Writers' Week, and the Women's Suffrage Centenary at the Jacqui Hick Retrospective. See below for details.

Old colonists 1836-1840 [mosaic]

Duryea, Townsend, 1872, Photograph, B 8235/2

Photographic copy of B 8235/1, mounted on card , containing 734 portraits and handwritten alphanumeric coordinates. This print represents the original mosaic (B 8235/1) before it was damaged by fire and lost 27 portraits. It would have been one of the smaller versions of the original mosaic that Duryea made available for sale. It was purchased by the South Australian Archives from the Old Curiosity Shop, Rundle Street, Adelaide in 1939.

Photograph album of the England-Australia flight

Smith, Keith Macpherson, Sir, c. 1919, Photograph, PRG 18/9/1/1A-48C

Photograph album documenting the England-Australia flight of the Vickers Vimy G-EAOU and crew, from Hounslow, England, to Adelaide, Australia. See below for details.

Family photograph album

c. 1922, Photograph, B 77305/1-106

Photograph album of an unknown family featuring holiday photos in Victor Harbor and Port Noarlunga during the summer of 1922-1923, along with family photos including houses and pets. Also includes photographs of the Murray River, and the Red Cliffs Power Station located near Mildura in Victoria. Printed on front of album: "Morentine Album".