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Anthony Forster
[General description] Portrait of Anthony Foster, seated with his hand resting on a small table. He wears a stiff, high collar and bow tie. He was at times a Methodist lay preacher, politician, financier and newspaper owner/editor. He published 'South Australia: its Progress and Prosperity' (London), in 1866. [On back of photograph] 'Anthony Forster, one of the proprietors of the South Australian Registor / To arrest further fading this print was re-immersed in hypo. and thoroughly washed in 1931'.
George Swan Fowler
[General description] Upper body portrait of George Swan Fowler in seven eighths view. He wears the spade beard fashionable at the time. With his younger brother David built Adelaide's successful wholesale grocery and shipping agency D.& J. Fowler.
George Swan Fowler
[General description] Head and shoulders portrait of George Swan Fowler. He has grey hair, beard and moustache. His watch chain can be seen at his waistcoat. In 1854, with his brother David, he founded the famous firm D. and J. Fowler. It started as a small retail business in King William Street but eventually expanded to become one of Australia's largest wholesale groceries.
Sir Arthur Henry Freeling
Sir Arthur Henry Freeling, Surveyor-General of South Australia and head of the Crown Lands Department. This portrait was taken in full dress uniform, as a major and honorary lieutenant-colonel in the Royal Engineers.
Henry Robert Fuller
[General description] Oval shaped portrait of the head and partial shoulders of the subject. He has greying hair and beard. [On back of photograph] 'H. R. Fuller, Mayor of Adelaide / On Duke of Ediburgh's visit'.
Sir Henry Lionel Galway
[General description] Full length portrait of Sir Henry Lionel Galway, K.C.M.G., D.S.O.,Governor of South Australia 1914-1920. Standing erect, he confidently faces the camera wearing full dress uniform with much gold braid and a tall headdress decorated with feathers. On his chest he wears medals including the star and badge of a Knight Commander. He was a controversial governor for South Australia, socially conservative and favouring conscription and capital punishment. [On back of photograph] 'Sir Henry Galway'.
Sir Henry Lionel Galway
[General description] Head and shoulders portrait of Sir Henry Lionel Galway, Governor of South Australia from 18 April 1914 until 30 April 1920. He wears one of his medals on the lapel of his striped jacket. [On back of photograph] 'Lieutenant- Colonel Sir Henry Lionel Galway, K.C.M.G., D.S.O. / Presented by Mrs. H.L. Aldersey' His signature, dated 1919, is attached to the back of the photograph.
John Gardner
[General description] This image is split into three parts, the first being a decorative testemonial document from the Church subscribers, the second has a signed photograph of the Reverend and the third shows the presentation candelabrum, an elaborate structure shaped like a palm tree with a stag standing at its base and a bowl of fruit on its top. [On back of photograph] 'Memorial presented to the Reverend John Gardner on his departure from Chalmers Church, September 23rd, 1868 / With portrait and presentation candelabrum'.
Reverend John Gardner
[General description] Full front head and shoulders portrait of the Reverend John Gardner, Presbyterian minister. He is wearing preaching bands attached to his clerical collar.
Mrs Ruth Marjorie Gault
Full length studio portrait of Mrs Ruth Marjorie Gault in a long dress and wearing a hat. Mrs Gault was a South Australian poet and author. This photo appears to have been taken at the same time as B 6848. Mrs Kyle Gault was formerly Miss Ruth Hawker and the photograph taken in 1936 shows her wearing a period costume worn during the Kuitpo Pioneer Ship Competition. Mrs Gault represented the ship "Lysander" which arrived in South Australia in 1840.
Colonel George Gawler
[General description] Head and shoulders portrait of Colonel George Gawler in seven eighths view. His grey hair, sideburns and beard are neatly trimmed. Appointed Governor of South Australia in 1838 he arrived in the Colony on October 12th that year. He had great difficulties to contend with, and his administration, though it was at the time condemned by many, is now seen to be appropriate in hindsight. He spent a large amount of both his own fortune and government funds in necessary improvements to the colony. He was recalled in 1841. [On back of photograph] 'Colonel George Gawler / 2nd Governor of South Australia / From October 1838 to May 1841'.
Maria Gawler
[General description] Seated portrait of Mrs Maria Gawler, nee Cox, wife of Colonel George Gawler. She is wearing the full skirt of the period, with a lace shawl and cap. She was engaged in the philanthropic, educational and religious life of the colony during Governor Gawler's tenure.
Lionel Carley Egremont Gee
[General description] Full length studio portrait of Lionel Carley Egremont Gee. He is posed in a uniform featuring a frogged jacket and kepi cap and is carrying a sword. He was Chief Registrar of the South Australian Mines Department.
Thomas Gilbert
[General description] Upper body portrait of Thomas Gilbert, Colonial Storekeeper and first Postmaster. He came out to South Australia on the Cygnet in 1836.
Ernest Giles
[General description] Photograph of a lithograph signed 'J. Bruer'. It is a portrait of Ernest Giles, explorer, seen in three quarter view. Although he made no major discoveries, Giles' expeditions added substantially to the knowledge of central Australia, resulting in several highly regarded journals. He succeeded in his aim of crossing overland from South to Western Australia in 1875.
William Giles
William Giles, Company Manager and Member of Upper House, seat of Yatala. George Angas Fife invited him to take charge of the South Australian Company Station on Kangaroo Island. He took up the position of Colonial Manager and later moved to Adelaide where he set the agricultural future of the state. He improved the wool clip, flour exports, copper mining, harvesting. He was patriarch of 21 children and 78 grandchildren.
Francis James Gillen
[General description] Portrait of Francis James Gillen, seated. He is short haired and clean shaven. He was a Public Servant and amateur ethnologist, appointed in 1892 as Alice Springs post and telegraph station master where he was also Special Magistrate and Sub-protector of Aborigines. He had a particular interest in the Aboriginal people and vigorously defended their rights. He collaborated with anthropologist Sir Baldwin Spencer on field trips and in publications.
Osmond Gilles
[General description] Upper body portrait of Osmond Gilles, wearing wing collar and cravat. He came out to South Australia on the Buffalo in 1836 and was a prominent pastoralist, landowner, mine owner and South Australia's first Colonial Treasurer [On back of photograph] 'Original in posession of Mr. Travers C. Borrow, Malvern'Osmond Gilles.
Charles John Glover
[General description] This signed portrait of Charles R. J. Glover is in soft focus and shows the head and upper body of the subject looking at the camera. He is wearing wire spectacles, a wing collar, tie and a pin-striped suit. A businessman and public benefactor he was Adelaide's first Lord Mayor from 1917-19 and served two more terms from 1923-25 and 1930-33. [On back of photograph] 'Glover, Charles Richmond John' Glover, Lord Mayor of Adelaide.
Patrick McMahon Glynn
[General description] Head and shoulders portrait in profile of Patrick McMahon Glynn, showing a balding man with a bushy moustache. He was a lawyer, politician and federationist who represented South Australia at the Australasian Federal Convention of 1897-98. He was an eloquent speaker with a wide knowledge of literature.
Patrick McMahon Glynn
[General description] Head and shoulders portrait in profile of Patrick McMahon Glynn, lawyer, conservative politician and federationist. 'Paddy' Glynn was elected in 1897 as one of South Australia's ten delegates to the Federal convention.
Reverend J.F. Goessling
Formal portrait of Pastor J.F. Goessling, an early Lutheran missionary.
Charles Henry Goode
[General description] Head and shoulders portrait of Charles Henry Goode in seven eighths view. He was a businessman, merchant, politician and philanthropist. In March 1865 he was elected to the House of Assembly for East Torrens, later resigning to attend to his business interests. He founded Goode, Durrant and Company in 1882. He was involved in many philanthropic and religious enterprises, eventually being knighted in 1912.
Clarence Goode
[General description] This head and upper body portrait shows an young man, seated and looking up from his book. Clarence Goode had a chequered career, as a wheat farmer, a Labour politician (Member for Stanley including a stint as Commissioner for Crown Lands), a cotton farmer in Queensland and enventually, on returning to Adelaide in the depression years, a cleaner at the Adelaide Centenniel Park Cemetery. Born in 1875, no date found for death. [On back of photograph] 'Clarence Goode'.
Sir John Hannah Gordon
[General description] Head and shoulders portrait of Sir John Hannah Gordon who is looking to the left, past the photographer. At this time he is about forty years old and has short hair and a neat moustache. He wears a high buttoned single breasted jacket over a shirt with a with a wing collar and spotted tie. He was a judge, politician and enthusiastic federalist. He was appointed Q.C. in 1900 and was knighted in 1908.
Sir John Hannah Gordon
[General description] Head and shoulders portrait of a relatively young Sir John Hannah Gordon, seen in three quarter view, clean shaven with a moustache and wearing a winged collar and tie. He was a judge, politician and federationist who was knighted in 1908.
Charles Gosse
[General description] Head and shoulders portrait of Dr. Charles Gosse in seven eighths view. He was an opthalmic surgeon at the Adelaide Hospital and also had a special interest in the childhood mortality prevalent at the time. Sadly he died young as a result of an injury recieved in a carriage accident.
John William Gower
Studio portrait of the Reverend John William Gower, taken 16 January 1909 when he was aged 80.
George Woodroffe Goyder
[General description] Three quarter profile portrait of George Woodroffe Goyder. He is shown with greying hair, beard and moustache. A talented engineer and surveyor, he emigrated to Sydney in 1848 and later settled in South Australia. He became South Australia's Assistant Surveyor-General by 1856 and Surveyor-General by 1861. He was very active in his profession, often going into the field on horseback to deal personally with issues. He was a man of many achievements but he is best known for his work on the Goyder's Line of Rainfall.
John Benjamin Graham
[General description] Head and shoulders portrait of John Benjamin Graham, in an oval frame inscribed with the words 'Yours very truly'. He was a pioneering Adelaide businessman and prominent investor in the Burra mines. He built Prospect House, known locally as Graham's Castle.