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A.75 Anti Aircraft guns and mountings at Beverley Plant

GM Holden Ltd, 1945, Photograph, BRG 213/207/4/156-162

Rows of ordnance in the workshop.

40 foot work boat

GM Holden Ltd, 1944, Photograph, BRG 213/207/4/338-340

A row of boats under production.

Folding boats

GM Holden Ltd, 1941, Photograph, BRG 213/207/4/1181-1182

Row of boats in workshop.

Row of 2 pounder guns at Beverley Plant

GM Holden Ltd, 1945, Photograph, BRG 213/207/4/1435

Copy photograph.

Pontoon row at Western end of No. 5 Plant

GM Holden Ltd, 1941, Photograph, BRG 213/207/4/1686

Water craft stacked outside Plant building.

Pontoon in action on the water

GM Holden Ltd, 1943, Photograph, BRG 213/207/4/1736

Soldiers rowing the pontoon. Note in original index: 'Copy photograph from photograph located in GMH Conference Room'.

Reeling machines

GM Holden Ltd, 1940, Photograph, BRG 213/207/4/1765-1766

Machinery set up in rows in the workshop.

Chevrolet Convention at GMH Birkenhead Plant

GM Holden Ltd, 1940, Photograph, BRG 213/207/5/177-179

Guests seated at the Convention; a row of Chevrolet cars parked outside the front of the Plant.

Australian Mounted Cadets

Smith, Keith MacPherson, Sir, 1910, Photograph, PRG 18/1/21

Ross Smith, fourth from left in the back row, during a world tour with the Australian Mounted Cadets, aged 14 years.

'View from the top of Port Lincoln, looking down the Bay'

Gawler (Family), n.d., Artwork, PRG 50/34/5

'View from the top of Port Lincoln (proper), looking down the Bay'. Includes a key to the principal landmarks: 1.Boston Island; 2.Rack(?) at the entrance of the Harbour; 3.Grantham Island; 4.Henford(?) Hill. The painting is looking across a large body of water with small bays and headlands on wither side, and islands in the middle ground. Two samll sailing vessels and a row boat are visible.

Mounted station hands at Mutooroo Station

Smith, Keith Macpherson, Sir, c. 1898, Photograph, PRG 18/2/1

View of station hands mounted on horses, at mustering and lamb marking, Mutooroo Station. Left to right: Jimmy McKenzie, Bill Somerville, Owen Maily, Charles Ryles, [unknown], Old Ned, [unknown], Jack McKenzie, Tom Huran, Jack Rowe, Andy Huran, Tommy Horfe, [unknown], [unknown].

Photograph album of Mutooroo Station

Smith, Keith Macpherson, Sir, c. 1912, Photograph, PRG 18/3/2/1-74

Photograph album, pre World War One, taken at Mutooroo Station and surrounding stations, featuring Andrew, Jessie, Keith, Ross, and Colin Smith, sheep and livestock, station houses, buildings and stockyards, family pets, cars, and horse-drawn carriages and wagons.

Postcard collection of Emily Sophia Groom

c. 1900, Photograph, B 77156

A collection of postcards and greeting cards collected by Emily Sophia Groom (nee Grovermann) during the early 1900s, with many cards depicting early SA. The inscription inside the album states "E S Grovermann, Blyth, 29-5-1906". Emily Groom was born in 1877 at Clare and married Harry Rowe (his mother's surname) Groom in 1931. Emily was aged 45 when she married and did not have children of her own. Locations in the postcards include Blyth and Clare, Tanunda, Gumeracha, Victor Harbor and Port Elliot, Adelaide, North Adelaide, and assorted interstate and international locations [See individual records for selected digitised postcards, which may be viewed online].

Photograph album taken during World War One

Smith, Keith MacPherson, Sir, c. 1915, Photograph, PRG 18/4/21

Photograph album of Ross Smith, comprising photographs of the 3rd Light Horse Regiment at Weymouth Camp in England, and on active service in Egypt during the First World War. See below for details.

Bolt family

1954, Photograph, PRG 1741/2/33

Walter and Grace Bolt (nee Johns) and family on their Golden Wedding anniversary. Back row L-R: Ethel Johns, Selma Bolt, Murray Bolt, Nancy Retallack, Grace Bolt, Phoebe Bolt, Amy Kav, Richard Bolt.

Group portrait of Ross Smith and officials at Government House, Calcutta

Smith, Keith MacPherson, Sir, 1919, Photograph, PRG 18/6/7

Group portrait taken at Government House, Calcutta at the house party, January 1919. Left to right: (sitting) Sir Frank Sly, Lord Southborough, Lady Munro, The Governor (Lord Ronaldshay), Miss Graham, The Commander in Chief (Sir Charles Munro), and the Maharaja of Sikkim; (middle) Captain Lyons (A.D.C.), Mr Clauson, Major Sands, Major Muir, Major Macartney, Mr Hailey, Major-General Scott, Mr Campbell, and Risalda Faiz Muhuad Khan (A.D.C.); (back row) Ross Smith, Captain Hyde (A.D.C.), Captain Haskett-Smith (A.D.C.), Mr Wilkinson, Captain Bridges, Captain Troutbeck, and Captain Vaux.

Unveiling of the Sir Ross Smith memorial, Cresswell Gardens

Smith, Keith Macpherson, Sir, 1927, Photograph, PRG 18/13/11

Sir Keith Smith and crowds gathered at the unveiling of Sir Ross Smith's memorial commemorating the first successful flight by aeroplane from England - Australia at Creswell Gardens, Adelaide, South Australia. Front row: Sir George Murrary (in top hat), Sir Keith Smith, Miss Murray, Lady Bonython, Lady Smith, and Sergeant Shiers. Behind Sir George is Mr James Gosse, Mr and Mrs Barr Smith, and Mrs J Gosse. 10 December 1927.

Elder Smith Rifle Club

Smith, Keith Macpherson, Sir, 1915, Photograph, PRG 18/55/1

Group portrait of the Elder Smith Rifle Club in 1915. Keith Smith is back row, seventh from the left. Keith Smith was employed by Elder Smith & Co. before the outbreak of the First World War.

La Targette

Smith, Keith MacPherson, Sir, c. 1918, Photograph, PRG 18/56/40

Rows of crosses at the La Targette War Cemetery in France.

Row house, 261 Wright Street, Adelaide

Scott, Jenny, 2019, Photograph, B 77361

One of six bluestone houses built on Wright Street, Adelaide, by John White between 1879 and 1880.

Ceylon Hut 25th anniversary dinner

Ceylon Hut, 1987, Photograph, SRG 896/6/7

Proprietors John and Nayleen Ruppert (front) celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Ceylon Hut restaurant, with guests including: left to right, Chris Sumner, John Bannon, and Des Corcoran (front row), and Mike Rann in the background on the left. Photograph taken to accompany an article written in 'The Advertiser'.