prg 280 • Find • State Library of South Australia

Pruning demonstration

1919, Photograph, PRG 280/1/9/28

A group of teachers attending a pruning demonstration by Mr. Quinn at a government owned orchard at Hackney, Adelaide in July 1919.

Cheer Up Hut dinner

1918, Photograph, PRG 280/1/9/29

Men of the Royal Naval Reserve being entertained at a meal given by women of the Cheer Up Hut who are acting as waitresses.

Five foundation members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Glen Osmond. The man seated in the middle is likely to be Mr. Alfred Leane who was the Secretary of the Order for many years in South Australia and deeply involved in establishment and reform of community based financial services. Leane also campaigned to allow women access to these services, with a particular focus on the working classes. He was eventually elected Grand Treasurer of the Grand Lodge of Australasia in 1893, and died in 1925.

Race horse at Mount Pleasant

1918, Photograph, PRG 280/1/9/31

A horse and jockey waiting to take part in Mount Pleasant races.

Victoria state football team

c. 1918, Photograph, PRG 280/1/9/32

Members of Victoria state football team.

Presentation of colours

1919, Photograph, PRG 280/1/9/33

Sir Henry Galway, Governor of South Australia, presenting colours to Lieutenant Colonel Dollman at a ceremony at Adelaide Oval.

War memorial at Brighton

c. 1920, Photograph, PRG 280/1/9/34

A memorial to the fallen of World War I at Brighton.

Prize winning horse and cart

c. 1918, Photograph, PRG 280/1/9/35

A prize winning decorated horse and cart on a showground at Adelaide.

Australian Comforts Fund executive officers

1919, Photograph, PRG 280/1/9/36

Executive officers of the South Australian Division of the Australian Comforts Fund. Sitting: Mrs Lucy Lendon (Chairman). Standing left to Right: Misses Ethel W. Wyatt and Carrie Clayton (Honorary Secretaries) and Lucy L. Ayers (Honorary Treasurer).

School teachers

c. 1918, Photograph, PRG 280/1/9/37

Group of male South Australian school teachers.

"Dodge" motor display

c. 1918, Photograph, PRG 280/1/9/38

The "Dodge" display stand at an Adelaide Show.

Dog racing officials

c. 1918, Photograph, PRG 280/1/9/39

A group of officials and visitors attending the opening of the dog racing season in South Australia.

Grenfell Street, Adelaide

1918, Photograph, PRG 280/1/9/40

Grenfell Street, north side, Adelaide; the site later occupied by the premises of Harris Scarfe Ltd.

Military escort for the Opening of Parliament in Adelaide

c. 1915, Photograph, PRG 280/1/9/41

Mounted military escort waiting on North Terrace, Adelaide for the Opening of Parliament.

A bride and groom

c. 1912, Photograph, PRG 280/1/9/42

A bride and groom.

Tree planting

c. 1918, Photograph, PRG 280/1/9/43

Sir Henry Galway, Governor of South Australia, planting a tree.

Payneham Cemetery, South Australia

c. 1914, Photograph, PRG 280/1/9/44

Part of Payneham Cemetery featuring the grave of Daisy Mabel Sherriff.

A prize dairy cow

c. 1915, Photograph, PRG 280/1/9/45

A prize dairy cow at Uraidla Agricultural Show.

Fire damage to a soap factory

1919, Photograph, PRG 280/1/9/46

Fire damage caused to the premises of W.H. Burford & Sons Ltd, soap, candle and starch manufacturers, at 71 Sturt Street, Adelaide.

Sir Edwin Thomas Smith with his grandchildren

1919, Photograph, PRG 280/1/9/47

Sir Edwin Thomas Smith, brewer and twice mayor of Adelaide, politician and philanthropist with his grandchildren shortly before his death in 1919.

Army officer Douglas Gordon

c. 1918, Photograph, PRG 280/1/9/48

A uniformed army officer identified as Major Gordon.

A model airplane

c. 1918, Photograph, PRG 280/1/9/49

Three boys with a model of a monoplane on display in the streets of Prospect on Australia Day.

Repatriation Day sales committee

1918, Photograph, PRG 280/1/9/50

Members of the South Australian Repatriation Day sales committee.

Repatriation Day amusements committee

c. 1918, Photograph, PRG 280/1/9/51

Members of the South Australian Repatriation Day amusements committee.

Crates at Glenelg

1918, Photograph, PRG 280/1/9/52

Crates left on an old jetty at Glenelg; according to a note by A. Searcy, they are for making a breakwater. [They were concrete cassions made on the beach at the end of Anzac Highway and rolled into the sea and floated out to be sunk in a line off the old Glenelg jetty. The project was abandoned before WW2.]

An old building in Waymouth Street, Adelaide

c. 1918, Photograph, PRG 280/1/9/53

The facade of a building in Waymouth Street which looks unoccupied and derelict; according to a note by A. Searcy, it has an association with Whitmore Carr, President of the South Australian Stock Exchange.

Crowds attending the ceremony for the new war memorial at Brighton in 1918

1918, Photograph, PRG 280/1/9/54

Crowds attending the ceremony for the new war memorial at Brighton in 1918.

Adelaide police outside their barracks

1916, Photograph, PRG 280/1/9/58

Members of the Adelaide foot police force wearing new uniforms in a large group outside their barracks.

Nurses during World War I

Smith, W. S., 1916, Photograph, PRG 280/1/9/60

Twenty two nurses photographed prior to leaving South Australia during World War I. These nurses were tendered a farewell at the Edith Cavell Army Nurses' Clubrooms, North Terrace, on Wednesday 20 December 1916. Back Row: Sisters Elsie Louise Steadman, Ivy Jessie Rodgers, Daisy Jane Wright, Edith Emily Faulkner, Elizabeth Scholastica Dailey and Elfrida J.M. Lapidge. Second Row: Sisters Dora Hannah Birks, Florence Maud Tabor, Sarah Ann Lord, Rosetta Lee Rushton, Florence May Laity, Kathleen Miriam Taylor and Doris Agatha Barry. Third Row: Sister Sarah Louisa Copley, Matron Alma Hancock, Sister Edith M. Menhennett, Principal Matron Ethel R. Uren, Sisters Erica Gwendoline Giles and Doris Gordon. Front Row: Sisters Agnes Love, Helen Gordon and Vera Mary Moyes.

Soldiers of the 16th Reinforcement to the 9th Light Horse

c. 1916, Photograph, PRG 280/1/9/61

Soldiers of the 16th Reinforcement to the 9th Light Horse and distinguished guests.

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