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Port Adelaide
Commercial Road, Port Adelaide, looking south from the river. The building on the right is the Customs House which was constructed in 1878-79 to the design of the Colonial Architect George Thomas Light. The South Australian Government collected taxes on goods imported from other Australian states and from overseas. The building has cut stone dressings and cornices and is constructed from Dry Creek stone with dressings of Sydney white freestone. It boosts a prominent tower with a mansard roof, lookout and a flagpole. The tower faces the Port River. On the other side of Commercial Street stands the Commercial Hotel which was built in 1841 and rebuilt after a fire in 1857. JC Addison was the proprietor at the time of this photograph.
Port Adelaide
Port Adelaide: in the foreground is the "Lady Diana" with the dredger "Willunga" behind. "Lady Diana" was built at Port Adelaide in 1877. The dredger "Willunga" was involved in a collision with the SS "Victorian" in 1877. The captain of the "Victorian" was found responsible and had his pilot license suspended. The "Willunga" was built in 1876 for the South Australian Government. The dredger was built of iron and weighed 787 tons gross. It foundered off Percy Island in 1915 while under tow from Cairns to Sydney
Customs House, Port Adelaide
Customs House, Port Adelaide was constructed in 1878 following demolition of the timber customs house which stood on the same spot since 1840. The two storey building was designed in the Victorian Italianate style and constructed from Dry Creek bluestone with Sydney white freestone dressings. It featured a 70 foot high observation tower
Ocean Steamers' Wharf
Shipping at Ocean Steamers' Wharf, Port Adelaide : on extreme left is the "Karoola", the "Clan Macindoe" and the "City of Sydney" are on the right. At least 8 vessels can be seen in the photograph
Prince's Wharf, Port Adelaide
Prince's Wharf, near North Parade, Port Adelaide, showing the Adelaide Milling Co. buildings. According to a researcher, the small three mast schooner in the middle of the photo is the "Coringle", a member of the South Australian ketch fleet. Coringle was built in Sydney in 1909 and worked in SA until 1965, when she was sold to a Darwin buyer. She was broken up in 1971.
Fire Crew, Port Adelaide
Fire crew at Port Adelaide Station (names are not known). Photo by 'Premier Company, Adelaide & Sydney.
Railway Passenger Car
Railway passenger car 4, Port Broughton. These horse drawn cars were a cross between a railway car and a horse tram and were used on the Port Broughton to Mundoora tramway, also known as the Barunga Range railway. The line was opened on 11th March 1876 but was often operated at a loss. During 1926 a kerosene Fordson rail tractor replaced the horse operation between Port Broughton and Mundoora and this vehicle continued to shunt the jetty after the closure of the through working in 1942. This information (and more) is from the 'Trolley Wire', December 1982, on the Sydney Tramway Museum website.
"Governor Musgrave"
The "Governor Musgrave" stranded on a sand bar near Port Germein. She was built at Mort's Dock in Sydney in 1874. Registry was cancelled in 1925 when she was converted to a coal hulk.
Warships at Port Lincoln
Visit of detachment of 5 RAN ships 21.9.26 to 4.10.26 - 2 light cruisers: left to right: HMAS Sydney, HMAS Adelaide; 3 Destroyers HMAS Success; HMAS Swordsman; HMAS Tasmania.
Dingley Dell, Port MacDonnell
Dingley Dell, Port MacDonnell. Copy of postcard.
Jetty at Port Noarlunga
Watercolour depiction of the jetty at Port Noarlunga. Signed 'J.H.A' in the left bottom corner, with the date '1855' in the bottom right corner, the painting is finely detailed and contains a wealth of information. The jetty extends from an escarpment, on top of which is a man with a horse and wagon; on the jetty itself are four men, a dog and a number of parcels and bundles at the end. Beyond the jetty is a ship at anchor (the ship has been identified as the 'Yatala' by shipping historian A.D. Edwardes), with a row boat and a small boat under sail nearby; a line of rocks is shown beyond the ship and two other vessels are depicted in the far distance. In the foreground are two men launching a small boat into the waves; another man is walking towards the escarpment with two dead birds in his hand and a rifle over his shoulder, with his dog running ahead; a ladder is also lying on the ground.
Sir William Wellington Cairns
Sir William Wellington Cairns; a lithograph. "Penman & Galbraith Machine Lithy, Adelaide" - bottom left hand corner.
Captain Charles Sturt
Captain Charles Sturt, born India and joined the British Army, he arrived in Australia in 1827. Australian explorer, in 1830 he discovered and named the Murray River, an event that gave new impetus to the settlement of South Australia. In 1838 he brought cattle overland to Adelaide from Sydney, after which Governor Gawler appointed him South Australian Surveyor-General and Registrar-General. Sturt later undertook additional expeditions into central Australia, but his health failed and he returned to England in 1851.
Captain Charles Sturt
Pencil sketch on paper portraying Captain Charles Sturt. Montefiore was a friend of Sturt and made an original sketch in 1849. It is believed this artwork is a copy of that original sketch, which was used in an obituary to commemorate Sturt, after his death in 1869.
Colin Thiele
A portrait of Colin Thiele, sketched in sepia felt tip pen on paper. The work is titled and signed by the artist.
Sir James Hardy
[General description] Informal portrait of Sir James Hardy, sportsman, wine maker and businessman, at the bow of a yacht under sail. [Annotation on back of photograph by Sir James] 'Sir James Hardy O.B.E. / Photo taken aboard his yacht "Nerida" / Sydney Harbour in the 1990s / Photographer unknown. (Note the S.A. shirt)'.
Sir James Hardy
[General description] Informal portrait of Sir James Hardy, sportsman, wine maker and businessman, with a glass of wine. [Annotation on back of photograph by Sir James] 'Sir James Hardy O.B.E. / Photo taken at the Aust. National / Maritime Museum, Sydney in the / 1990s by Tony Carr & Associates / AM AEWC 2055L'.'
Commercial Banking Co
The Commercial Banking Company of Sydney, Unley Road, Unley.
Horse Tram, Victor Harbor
Entitled "The old horse tram at Victor Harbor". Valentine's series. no 3065.
Centennial Hall, Wayville
Centennial Hall, Wayville.
Crane, Whyalla
Crane at Whyalla. According to a researher this is a 150 ton capacity Giant Cantilever, Hammerhead crane by Clyde Engineering, Sydney 1941-3. Original steelwork by BHP Newcastle lost at sea ca.1942. Replacement steelwork provided by Goninan, Newcastle ca.1942. Dismantled mid 1980s.
Vauxhall Car with Passengers
Mr Burton and Mr Bradley in a Vauxhall car at Yardea Station during an attempt to break the motoring record from Freemantle to Sydney.
Charles Lempriere Abbott
Charles Lempriere Abbott, Attorney General.
Prince Victor Albert
Prince Victor Albert (17 years old) and Prince George(15 years old) during the Royal visit in 1881. They sailed aboard the 'HMS Bacchante' as midshipmen in training. They crossed from Albany, WA to Adelaide on a passenger ship, travelled by land to Melbourne and then on to Sydney by naval vessel. Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (1864-1892) was the eldest son of Albert Edward (later King Edward VII) and grandson of Queen Victoria. He died before his grandmother so never became King. He was engaged to Princess Mary of Teck but when he died of influenza she married his brother George, who became King George V in 1910.
Will Ashton
An moodily lit head and shoulders portrait of Will Ashton, artist, Art Gallery Director and arts administrator. He was appointed O.B.E. in 1941 and knighted in 1960. His painting 'Boulevard Montparnasse, Paris' was sold for 150 guineas to the National Gallery of South Australia. He won the Wynne prize for landscape three times.
Mr and Mrs Daly
Dominick Daniel Daly, nephew of Governor Daly, with his wife Harriet (nee Douglas). Harriet was the daughter of William Douglas (who was a resident of Darwin from 1870) and married Daly in the early 1870s. Harriet's family arrived in Darwin in 1870 onboard 'Gulnare'. Dominick's family arrived on the same day on board 'Bengal'. He was a surveyor with Goyder's Expedition of 1869. The couple returned to Darwin where Dominick worked for the Engineer-in-Chief. They moved to the Malay States. Dominick died in Borneo in 1889. Harriet returned to England and became a correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald. A researcher has stated that this is not Mr and Mrs Daly: 'The studio imprint verso shows Crawford as manager of the Adelaide Photographic Co. This was the case from its inception in January 1864 to when he left in December 1866. So the carte must likely date to the mid 1860s. Harriet Douglas (born 1854) did not marry Dominic Daniel Daly until October 1871'.
Sir Samuel Davenport
Head and shoulders portrait of Sir Samuel Davenport in seven eighths view. A farmer and landowner, he was a successful breeder of horses and cattle and was a keen promoter of South Australian agriculture with interests in cultivation of olives, silk and tobacco. He had a brief career as a Member of the Legislative Council, then was involved in many aspects of public life including representing the colony at the Great Exhibition in London in 1851 and others in Philadelphia (1876), Sydney (1879), Melbourne (1880), Colonial and Indian (1886) culminating in the International Exhibition in Melbourne in 1888. He was knighted in 1884 and in 1886 appointed K.C.M.G.
William Edwards
[General description] Head and upper body portrait of William Edwards (from a portrait by Charles Rodius) in profile. He laid out the suburb of Edwardstown in 1838. [duplicate copy at PRG 1631/45/26a]. [On back of photograph] 'William Edwards (original proprietor of Edwardstown) / From a portrait by Charles Rodius, a Sydney artist (1851) / According to a letter from the donor (Mr. C.J.W. Higgins), dated April 9th, 1937 the original "drawing is on dark creamy paper, the highlights touched in with white, with the eye (blue), lips and ears lightly tinged with colour" / See 1047/13 for biographical notes'.
Edward John Eyre
Lithograph of Edward John Eyre, painted by Charles Mercier, and engraved by Charles Tomkins. Published October 10th 1868 by the proprietor T.W. Green, 36 Union Grove, Clapham, Surrey. Edward John Eyre, explorer, colonial administrator arrived from England, via Sydney with 1,000 sheep which he sold for a large profit. He later explored north to the Flinders Ranges, west to beyond Ceduna, west along the coastline of the Great Australian Bight, the Nullabor Plain and Albany in Western Australia.
Montague Fetherstonhaugh
Montague Fetherstonhaugh, from the sheet first published by S.T. Gill in May 1849.