portrait

Hon. S. R. Whitford

Government Photolithographer (S.A.), 1930, Photograph, B 5889

[General description] Portrait of the Hon. S. R. Whitford, Chief Secretary, taken 1930. He is clean shaven and wears horn rimmed spectacles, a wing collar and spotted tie with a dark jacket.

Dr. Horatio T. Whittell

Farndell, Edward, c. 1865, Photograph, B 3895

[General description] Head and shoulders portrait of Doctor Horatio T. Whittell. He is bearded and wears a waistcoat and a cravat with a pin.

Leslie A. Wilkie, Australian artist. He was born in Melbourne, 1878 and educated at Brunswick College, Victoria. He became President of SA Society of Artists in 1932 and undertook further study in Europe in 1904, later becoming Curator of the Art Gallery of SA. In 1934 he painted portraits of Aboriginals near Cooper Creek during an anthropological expedition to Central Australia. He died in Adelaide after an appendix operation in 1935.

William Williams

c. 1855, Photograph, B 5839

[General description] This portrait shows Mr. W. Williams with straight dark hair, a light coloured vest and bow tie. [Caption on photograph] 'W.Williams / Arrived in the Signet (sic) 11th September 1836 and at Government Iron Stores Montefiore Hill' [On back of photograph] 'William Williams / Deputy Colonial Storekeeper'.

A. J. K. Wilson

Otto Von Hartitzsch & Co., c. 1880, Photograph, B 7704

Portrait of Algernon Theodore King Wilson, Queen's Counsel, born 7 August 1863 at Kensington SA; married to Lillian Charlotte Laurence at St. Michael's Church, Mitcham, 27 November 1895; and died at St. Peters 15 August 1925 aged 62. He was a founding member of the Philatelic Society of South Australia in 1888 and its President from 1909 to 1911. [References: BDM registers and minute books of the Philatelic Society of South Australia.]

Alfred Winton

c. 1895, Photograph, B 33607

Opalotype portrait, overpainted, of Alfred Winton - born in Crystal Brook.

Mr. Peter Wood

c. 1890, Photograph, SRG 95/165/54/12

Portrait of Mr Peter Wood, Senior Deacon of Clayton Congregational Church 1874-1890.

John Woodforde

c. 1855, Photograph, B 7008

[General description] This portrait shows Dr. Woodforde seated and resting an elbow on a small table. He wears a dark suit with frock coat and a chin strap beard. He was the ship's surgeon on the 'Rapid' and upon arrival in the colony was appointed by Colonel Light as surgeon to the Survey Department at Rapid Bay. He later established a private practice in Hindley Street. He was appointed Coroner for Adelaide in 1857. [On back of photograph] 'John Woodforde, M.D. / Medical advisor to Colonel Light. Arrived in South Australia on the 'Rapid' in 1836 / presented by Miss Meliora O'Halloran'.

Alfred T. Woods

Adelaide Photographic Co., c. 1864, Photograph, B 3857

[General description] Head and shoulders portrait of Alfred Thomas Woods in severn eigths view. He is portrayed here as a relatively young man with wavy hair and a moustache. He was a surveyor on Goyder's Northern Territory Surveying Expedition 1868-1870.

J. Crawford Woods

Duryea, c. 1865, Photograph, B 8756

[General description] Upper body portrait of the Reverend J. Crawford Woods, Unitarian minister.

John Maude Woolley

c. 1860, Photograph, B 9824

[General description] Studio portrait of two Customs agents, John Maude Woolley of the Customs Department, Inspector of Sheep (seated) and W.N. Potter, Customs agent of Blanchetown, standing. [On back of photograph] 'John Maude Woolley on left and W. N. Potter on the right'.

Clement Lindley Wragge

Adelaide Photographic Co., c. 1880, Photograph, B 9825

[General description] Full length portrait of Clement Lindley Wragge, meteorologist. A tall slim man with red hair and quick temper he created controversy in his field. He was the first person to present real weather forecasts in Australia and originated the use of names for weather systems. He is regarded by many as the 'father of modern meteorology'.

Fanny Wragge

c. 1885, Photograph, B 17900

Tintype portrait of Fanny Wragge, daughter of Professor Clement Wragge, Government Meteorologist in Adelaide and later Queensland. She is wearing a dress with an elaborate deep collar, bordered in lace, and a lace jabot with a heavy chain and pendant, and a belt around the waist.

George Speller Wright

James R. Dobson, c. 1875, Photograph, B 11123

George Speller Wright was the Inspector-General of Credit Lands. He worked in various Government departments including Marine Board, Chief Secretary's Office, Govermment Statist, Crown Lands between 1863 and 1884. He was the first Inspector of the State Bank, Mayor of Henley and Grange and was an earnest church worker. He was married and had seven children

George Barr Yeates

Areas Photo Co., c. 1885, Photograph, B 5565

[General description] Head and shoulders portrait of the subject in three quarter view. He wears a trimmed beard and moustache. He was a pioneering grazier in the mid north of South Australia who, together with his brothers John and Sidney made a journey up to northern Queensland to open up new grazing country, enduring much hardship. He ended his career as the Town Clerk at Jamestown. [On back of photograph] 'George Barr Yeates / Town Clerk / Jamestown / Arrived per ship 'Bardaster' / Captain Virtue / January 18, 1839 aged 14 years'.

Sir Henry Edward Fox Young

c. 1850, Photograph, B 3754

[General description] Head and upper body portrait of Sir Henry Edward Fox Young, KCMG. He was the fifth Governor of South Australia from 2nd August, 1848 until 20th December,1854. He is wearing a dress uniform with brass buttons, gold braid and epaulettes.

Sir Henry Edward Fox Young

Hughes, Jabez, c. 1870, Photograph, B 5845

This portrait shows the subject seated, wearing light trousers and a long double breasted jacket worn open, showing his watch. He has a grey full beard. Sir Henry Edward Fox Young was Governor of South Australia from 2nd Aug 1848- 20th Dec 1854.

Sir Henry Edward Fox Young

c. 1860, Photograph, B 5974

[General description] Head and upper body portrait of Sir Henry Edward Fox Young, in three quarter view. He sports a grey beard and side whiskers. Appointed KCMG in 1847 he served as South Australia's fifth Governor from August 1848 to December 1854 before taking up the Governorship of Tasmania.

John Lorenzo Young

Eureka Photo Studio, c. 1861, Photograph, B 3445

[General description] This is a portrait of John Lorenzo Young. He is seated in three quarter view, turning to face the camera. In the 1860s, with his brother Oliver, he founded the Adelaide Educational Institution which grew into the largest private independent school in South Australia. In 1872 new premises were built at Parkside in Young Street (named after the schoolmaster). For a photograph of the school, See B 1843.

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Zilm

Scott-Barry, Walter, c. 1895, Photograph, B 5568

[General description] Upper body portrait of the subject, seated and holding a book. He sports distinctive long side whiskers and is wearing a dark three piece suit. His Lutheran family arrived on the Bengalee from Hamburg having fled their native Goltzen, a village near Brandenburg after religious persecution from Prussian authorities. They were involved with fifty other German families in the founding of Hahndorf. Johann Wilhelm (called Wilhelm by his family) eventually settled near Booleroo Centre, selecting 450 acres, clearing it to grow wheat and establishing a homestead. This property was named 'Pantakora'. Wilhelm was a talented carpenter, producing a number of items of furniture some of which are on display at the National Museum (Zilm Collection). [On back of photograph] 'Johann Friedrich Wilhelm / Arrived 19th November, 1838 / Died at Booleroo Centre / 29th January, 1906, aged 79 / Son of Johann Christian and Anna Dorothea (his first wife) / nee Mattiske)' with his parents Johaan Christian and Anna Dorothea. According to a researcher, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Zilm, eldest son of Johann Christian Zilm and Anna Dorothea nee Mattiscke, was born in 1827 in Goltzen Brandenburg Prussia. Emigrated to South Australia with parents and younger brother Johann Friedrich in November 1838 on the Bengalee. Settled at Hahndorf, then Nain in the Barossa before moving and pioneering the Booleroo Centre area. Married Johanne Louise Urbasch and had 10 children. Died in 1906 and is buried at the Willowie Lutheran cemetery.

[Early settlers, Port Lincoln and Western Districts - series 3]

c. 1918, Photograph, B 8505

Untitled photographic composite by an unknown creator comprising 24 portraits of men who were early European settlers of the Port Lincoln and west coast regions of Eyre Peninsula. At some stage in its history the mosaic was cut into halves. They were transferred to the State Library of South Australia (then Public Library) by the South Australian Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia in 1939 and assigned the numbers B 8505 and B 8506. In 2013 Artlab Australia conservators removed the photographs and original support paper from backing cardboard and reassembled the complete mosaic using acid-free materials.

[Early settlers, Port Lincoln and Western Districts - series 1]

c. 1918, Photograph, B 8507

Untitled photographic composite by an unknown creator comprising 26 portraits of men who were early European settlers of the Port Lincoln and west coast regions of Eyre Peninsula. At some stage in its history the mosaic was cut into halves. They were transferred to the State Library of South Australia (then Public Library) by the South Australian Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia in 1939 and assigned the numbers B 8507 and B 8508. In 2013 Artlab Australia conservators removed the photographs and original support paper from backing cardboard and reassembled the complete mosaic using acid-free materials.

[Early settlers, Port Lincoln and Western Districts - series 4]

c. 1918, Photograph, B 8509

Untitled photographic composite by an unknown creator comprising 25 portraits of men who were early European settlers of the Port Lincoln and west coast regions of Eyre Peninsula. At some stage in its history the mosaic was cut into halves. They were transferred to the State Library of South Australia (then Public Library) by the South Australian Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia in 1939 and assigned the numbers B 8509 and B 8510. In 2013 Artlab Australia conservators removed the photographs and original support paper from backing cardboard and reassembled the complete mosaic using acid-free materials.

'Bob' the Railway Dog

Art Portrait Co., c. 1892, Photograph, B 26282

Souvenir presentation of 'Bob the railway dog', comprising a photograph of Bob with a handwritten caption 'Stop me not / but let me jog / I am Bob / the driver's dog'. Underneath the photograph is a poem '"Bob" the driver/s dog'. Photograph by Art Portrait Co., 174A Rundle Street, [Adelaide]. See B 26282/1 and B 26282/2 for detailed images.