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William Kenneth Bakewell

c. 1905, Photograph, B 62956

PORTRAIT: William Kenneth Bakewell, son of Isabella and Leonard of Fitzroy Terrace, Prospect, Adelaide, South Australia; he was a solicitor with the firm of Piper, Bakewell, & Piper, a Company Director, and a keen polo player.

William Kenneth Bakewell

c. 1910, Photograph, B 62957

PORTRAIT: William Kenneth Bakewell, son of Isabella and Leonard of Fitzroy Terrace, Prospect, Adelaide; he was a solicitor with the firm of Piper, Bakewell & Piper, a Company Director, and a keen polo player.

Eva May Bakewell

Stump & Co., c. 1893, Photograph, B 62958

PORTRAIT: Eva May Bakewell, daughter of Isabella and Leonard of Fitzroy Terrace, Prospect, Adelaide.

Eva May Bakewell

c. 1897, Photograph, B 62959

PORTRAIT: Eva May Bakewell, daughter of Isabella and Leonard of Fitzroy Terrace, Prospect, Adelaide, South Australia.

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.]

Floral pageant

1936, Photograph, B 62239

GENERAL: 'Moorish Garden' the Prospect float in the Centenary year floral pageant, travelling along King William Street, 18 September 1936; the Woodville float can be seen in the background.

Sir Robert Helpmann

c. 1946, Photograph, B 54574

PORTRAIT: Robert Helpmann as "Mr. O'Reilly", a role in "The Prospect before us" ballet.

Ella Cleggett

Dowie, John, 1991, Photograph, B 55007

PORTRAIT: Ella Cleggett, founder of the Tubercular Soldiers Association, Morphett Street; from a painting by John Dowie.

Man with his 1926 Essex Roadster motor car

c. 1927, Photograph, B 56288

GENERAL: A proud owner sitting on the back bumper of his 1926, 16.5 horsepower Essex Roadster motor car. The registration number 58807 was issued in May 1926 to H.L.C.R. Laurie, of 46 Pulsford Road Prospect. Essex cars were made by the Hudson Motor Company.

Tent accommodation on a trailer

c. 1934, Photograph, B 56858

MORGAN: Tent accommodation on a trailer during a camping holiday near Morgan. The Graham Paige car, registration number 114-577 was owned by E.W.D. Cramond, of Prospect and was new in 1930.

Photograph albums containing views of the Anglican New Guinea Mission in Papua

1929, Photograph, B 56981

ALBUM: Photograph albums which belonged to the South Australian missionary, Lilla Lashmar, showing part of the life of the Anglican New Guinea Mission in Papua, 1929-1936. Album B 56981/1 (1929-1933), Album B 56981/2 (1933-1936). Photographs in Album 1 include mission buildings at Dogura and people attending mission conferences, indigenous people, including children, and Papua scenery. Lilla Lashmar and other mission staff were executed by the Japanese on Buna Beach in 1942.

Church picnic at National Park, Belair

c. 1950, Photograph, B 58714

NATIONAL PARK, BELAIR: Members of the congregation from St. Cuthbert's Church, Prospect enjoying a picnic at National Park. Ellen (Nell) Sharp is centre front with Mrs Haskard on her right wearing a white coat.

Hayward Ward at Angorichina Hostel

Tubercular Soldiers' Aid Society, 1931, Photograph, SRG 488/18/93

The main entrance to Hayward Ward at Angorichina Hostel on the left, Prospect Chalet in the distance.

Super Electra VHCXJ previously operated by Guinea Airways Ltd

1945, Photograph, B 57200/174

L14 F62 Super Electra VH-CXJ (previously PK-AFP) built 1938 and sold to KNILM who operated the aircraft in Netherlands East Indies. Suffered straffing damage prior to escaping Batavia ahead of the Japanese advance in WWII. Acquired by USAAF and operated by Allied Directorate of Air Transport (ADAT). Crashed at Rockhampton 8 October 1942, following overhaul delivered to Guinea Airways, Parafield who completed a major reconstruction of the aircraft. March / April 1944 flew between Parafield and Katherine before being replaced. Aircraft sold by War Disposal Commission to Harold Mortimer and Arthur Bergen for £25. On 22 February 1947 it was moved to the backyard of Mortimer's house in Guilford Avenue, Prospect (see The Advertiser, 27 February 1947, pg. 3) where it was used as a garden shed before being sold as scrap in 1975. Some parts went to the Warbirds Air Museum, Mildura. (Source, The Lockheed File website by Ron Cuskelly and Geoff Goodall, 2005).

Guinea Airways Ltd. Lockheed L-18 Lodestar Aircraft

1945, Photograph, B 57200/178

Lockheed L-18[military designation C-60] Lodestar VH-CEE airborne Parafield (Ex USAAF 21st Troop Carrier Squadron, no. 42-32174).

Vehicle stuck in sandy creek bed

Bray, Theodor, 1927, Photograph, B 64383/84

A buckboard vehicle (Graham Bros 23.8 hp truck) broken down and stuck in soft sand in the Finke River. The vehicle was registered to the Kuranalli Goldmining & Prospecting Syndicate of Adelaide at the time.

Australian soldiers

1941, Photograph, B 70024/16

A group of Australian soldiers. Back row, from left: Tom McNamara (Prospect), Don Wauchope (Croydon), George Naisbit (Broken Hill). Front, from left: Charlie Ashenden (Victor Harbor), Ron Searle (Glenelg), Colin Murn (Port Pirie).

Kindergarten children visit Parliament House

c. 1947, Photograph, B 70482

A group of children from the Lucy Morice Free Kindergarten pictured on the steps of Parliament House, with their three teachers (Mary Weston in centre and Pam Lasscock on the right). The children have been identified but by given name only.

Album of photographs relating to Kerr and Collins families

c. 1865, Photograph, B 50862/1-38

Album of 38 carte-de-visite and tintype photographs of the Kerr and Collins families. Some are named: 3. Mr E.J. Wivell, teacher of dancing & calisthenics; 28. Grandmother Collins; 31 & 33. John Thomas Collins, wife Margaret and sons Bruce, Walter, Percy and Thomas. (Some photographs taken in Melbourne.) Cover is ornate with metal decoration and brass clasp. The album has the inscription 'To Janet Kerr from her devoted friend William Sutherland as a Christmas Gift 25 December 1865'. The front page has 2 newspaper death notices, for Grace Kerr, daughter of Stair Kerr aged 64 years at Prospect (1917), and William Howard, husband of Eliza Howard, aged 68 years at 'Alsted Farm', Alma. The album bears the owner's name plate 'Mr J.T. Collins, Maitland'.

Family album of the Hursthouse Family

Hursthouse, John Wilson, c. 1925, Photograph, B 71737/1-167

The album contains photographs relating primarily to the life of John Wilson Hursthouse (1913-1945) including family camping holidays to the South-East, Yorke Peninsula and Eyre Peninsula between 1925-1930; schooling at Queen's School, North Adelaide, and Roseworthy Agricultural College, Boy Scouts, Army training at Kapunda Military camp, shearing at Middle Camp near Cowell and Elbow Hill (1934-1936); wheat harvesting at Gum Park, Yongala 1937; and training as an RAAF pilot at Parafield Aerodrome. The album includes a family portrait of John (Jack) with his parents Calvert Fearon Hursthouse and Lilian Ethel (nee Preshaw), and his siblings Helen Mary and Harold Richmond (Dick). Another photograph includes his son David as a child.