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King William Street looking south

Sweet, Samuel White, c. 1885, Photograph, PRG 742/5/30

King William Street looking over to Adelaide Town Hall and into Victoria Square, marked 'Sweet Adelaide 5'.

Post office at Kapunda, c1910

Mitchell, Robert, c. 1910, Photograph, PRG 1610/11/102

Photograph of a continution of stone buildings, mainly two storey, with a telegraph pole at the front, while men and women stand under the verandah and on the first floor balcony. A horse and buggy stands to the left and another is just in view to the right. Identified as the 'Post Office, Kapunda. c.1910'.

West Coast mail

1907, Photograph, PRG 458/1/1/126

West Coast Mail about to leave the Port Lincoln Post and Telegraph Office to travel to Streaky Bay.

Port Lincoln Institute

Smith, W. S., 1907, Photograph, PRG 733/264

Two men talk in the street outside the Port Lincoln Institute and Public Reading Room. The building behind them is the Post and Telegraph Office.

Post office at Milang

c. 1916, Photograph, PRG 1471/5/11

Uncaptioned photo of Milang's Post & Telegraph Office, a stone building facing the unpaved crossroads.

Slides of South Australian scenes, sites and events

Lothian, Noel, c. 1957, Photograph, PRG 560/69/1-199

Approximately 800 colour slides (35 mm) taken by Noel Lothian, previously housed within the South Australian Botanic Gardens Library collection, featuring South Australian sites and events, urban and regional towns and port facilities including Whyalla shipyards.

Album of the 1890 Royal Pastoral Commission inspection of South Australia and the Northern Territory

c. 1890, Photograph, PRG 23/6/2

An album of views of South Australia and the Northern Territory, believed to be taken during the inspection of the 1890 Royal Pastoral Commission, comprising photographs of: the 1890 members of the Royal Pastoral Commission, including members of the Pastoral Commission riding camels, horses and in wagons whilst travelling from place to place and making camp in various locations, as well as locations in Morgan, Murkbo, the Murray River, residents of Anna Creek, Beetaloo Dam, Charlotte Waters, Crown Point, the Macdonnell Ranges, the Alice Springs telegraph station, Melrose and Mount Remarkable, Wirrabara forest, Port Germein Gorge, and Horrocks Creek and Horrocks Pass in the Flinders Ranges.

Mabel Mary Taylor

Crown Studios, 1905, Photograph, PRG 1642/13/50

Mary Mabel Taylor, second child of Henry and Mary Jane Taylor, born 20 October 1874, and was a governess at the telegraph station in Alice Springs for the Bradshaw Family. She died at Hyde Park 2 January 1909.

Address presented to Governor Robinson

Robinson, William, Sir, 1883, Manuscript, D 8801(Misc)

An address presented to the Govenor, Sir William Cleaver Francis Robinson on his first visit to Mount Gambier, by the members of the Mount Gambier Agricultural and Horticultural Society. Signed by the President, Charles Clark, and the Secretary, M. C. Wilson, it was presented during the Governor's visit to the Mount Gambier Show. See 'The Express and Telegraph' (Adelaide), 30 March 1883, page 3, for a report on the visit.

Octavius John Pyne

c. 1915, Photograph, B 74978

Half-plate glass negative of Private Octavius John Pyne, wearing World War One military uniform including peaked cap, holding a cane under one arm, and standing in front of a background of a woodland path. Written on original paper envelope: '2373 O.J. Payne. 7th 10th Infantry. Strathalbyne'.

Mount Gambier Post Office

1926, Photograph, B 75284

View of the front facade of the Mount Gambier Post Office. A telegraph pole and bunting partially obscures the building; there are a number of people in front of the building, and a bicycle is resting in the gutter.

Holden HQ variable-ratio power steering pamphlet

GM Holden Ltd, c. 1971, Manuscript, BRG 213/40/3/8

Pamphlet titled 'The Ultimate in Steering', outlining General Motors-Holden's variable-ratio power steering implemented for the first time into the HQ Holden. Featuring comments of critical acclaim from Wheels, Modern Motor, Telegraph, and Sun-Herald reviews. The HQ Statesman de Ville was the first Holden to feature the new Australian steering design.

Train views

c. 1965, Photograph, B 76428/1-2

Views taken from a moving train, showing orange dirt and and railway tracks.

Photos from the Tea and Sugar Train

Radford, A. J., 1978, Photograph, B 76424

Views taken during working trips on the Tea and Sugar Train.

Papers of Sir John Cockburn

Cockburn, John A. Sir, 1888, Mixed material, PRG 1731

Papers relating to Sir John Cockburn, former Premier of South Australia, comprising monographs "The records of the Cockburn family" by Sir Robert Cockburn c.1913 and "The house of Cockburn of that ilk and cadets therof" by Thomas H. Cockburn-Hood c.1888 and John Cockburn's "Roll of the National Australian Convention which met in Sydney, 2nd March 1891" with a full page newspaper clipping of the event, and similarly for the 2nd Convention in 1897. Also includes a letter from young 'J.A. Cockburn' to his mother, family trees, a copy of 'Gray's Elegy' and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings related to John Cockburn. Other items include commissions, appointments, a birth certificate and extracts of an entry in a register of marriages, a testimonial, a certificate from the South Australian Medical Board, a personal invitation to the opening of the establishment of Parliament in Canberra and documentation pertaining to his knighthood and a photograph taken of him in later life in London.

Photos from Don Burnard's work as a young engineer

1935, Photograph, PRG 1724/15/21-35

A collection of photos from the first years of work by Don Burnard, featuring images of equipment and field work.

Letters written to Leonard John (Len) Harvey and other letters, postcards and telegrams

Harvey, Leonard John, 1916, Manuscript, PRG 1715/9

Letters written by W.H. Harvey to Len and others, letters from Len to extended family members, letters written by Flo Stevens, Mrs L. Webster, Will Stephens, Dan Murdoch, Leslie Barlow. Also includes flyer addressed 'To the Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, and Men of the Australian Imperial Force' by William Birdwood, relating to demobilisation. Also includes telegraphs, (one redacted).

Country north of Fowler's Bay [cartographic material]

1884, Archival map/chart, C 119

Pastoral plan of land between Fowler's Bay and Ooldea. Includes names of leaseholders, telegraph line, Delisser's survey line and road. Ink and watercolour on tracing paper.

Map showing explorations of Frank Scarr west of the Herbert River and Queensland boundary [cartographic material]

1878, Archival map/chart, C 92

Shows area between Tennant Creek Telegraph Station and Glenormiston Station, along the Herbert River. Brief description of natural features. Ink on tracing paper, explorer's route shown in red ink. Copy made by Bessie Threadgill of map in Home and Territories Office, Melbourne.

Map of explorations undertaken by direction and at the expense of T. Elder under the command of Ernest Giles [cartographic material] : from Beltana Station in the colony of South Australia to the city of Perth in the colony of Western Australia / drawn by H.C. Talbot and J.H. Packard ; copied from Mr. Giles plan

Giles, Ernest, 1875, Archival map/chart, C 1088

Map of Giles' route from Beltana Station, South Australia to Perth, Western Australia with description of topography. Details include lakes, rivers and sources of water, ranges, Great Victoria Desert and notes on natural features. Relief shown by hachures.

South Australia. Map of Yorkes Peninsula [cartographic material] / compiled from Government plans, and the most reliable private information that could be obtained

c. 1860, Archival map/chart, C 1021

Map of Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, compiled from government plans and the most reliable private information that could be obtained. Shows mineral sections of Black Point, Tipara, Wallaroo and Kulpara. Gives number, size and some dates for pastoral leases, as well as names of the lease holders. Includes some notes on natural features, text on sections formed into companies and sections not formed into companies. Coast and rivers hand coloured blue. Relief shown by hachures and pictorially.

Plan of country triangulated N.W. and N. of Lake Gairdner and S.W. of Lake Eyre by Messrs. Hardy and Barron 1877-8 [cartographic material]

South Australia. Surveyor General's Office, Archival map/chart, C 1082

Map of South Australia showing the area from Yardea in the south to Strangways Springs Telegraph Station in the north. Details include location of Lake Harris, Lake Gairdner, Lake Hart, Everard and Island Lagoons. Also shows Stuart's Range, Mt. Finke and Mt. Elba, Kingoonya and Coondambo Homestead. Gives notes on natural features. Relief shown by hachures.

Township of Palmerston [cartographic material] / drawn by Edwin S. Berry

Archival map/chart, C 1155

Cadastral map of Palmerston (Darwin), Northern Territory. Details include lot numbers, reserves, Government House, street names and first telegraph pole. Relief shown by hachures.

South Australian railways [cartographic material] : map to accompany time and fare tables November 1915

1915, Archival map/chart, C 976

Map of South Australia showing railways, the different gauge lines, lines under construction (Port Augusta to Kalgoorlie), the private line from Iron Knob, the northern lline to Oodnadatta, the Overland Telegraph Line, place and station names and some geographic features.

Map shewing lines of railways in South Australia 1903 [cartographic material]

Archival map/chart, C 964

Map of South Australia, showing railway lines and different gauges, place names and geographical features. Also shows suggested route from Port Augusta to Kalgoorlie, the private railway from Iron Knob to Spencer Gulf and north of Oodnadatta, the proposed railway line to the Northern Territory and the route of the Overland Telegraph.

John Mellor's expedition photographs

White (Family), c. 1906, Photograph, PRG 335/128/1-107

Photographs of expeditions and excursions to River Murray, Eyre Peninsula, Islands of Bass Strait, Capricorn Islands and outback locations.

Signed tablecloth belonging to Ada Ekers

Ekers, Ada, 1902, Computer file, D 8929(Misc)

Digital photograph of a signed tablecloth, identified in the centre as 'December - Mt Barker - 1902'. The table cloth is linen, and signatures are written in indelible pencil and then embroidered with various stiches in red perle cotton; scalloped edge finished with close red button-hole stitch. There is some deterioration with age but all signatures are still intact. The tablecloth is believed to have been started by Elizabeth Cornelius (nee Walker), who then passed it to her daughter, Ada Ekers (nee Walker). The tablecloth was used to record the signatures of visitors to the Cornelius and Ekers houses, and includes many members of both families, as well as friends. Ada's signature 'Ada G. Ekers', is just below the centre. After Ada died in 1938, the tablecloth was inherited by her son Laurie Ekers and daughter-in-law Elsie Ekers (nee Plaisted), who continued to tradition of the tablecloth until it was full, in the mid 1940s. [Adapted from 'The Signed Tablecloth (1902-1940)' by Ron Ekers].

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

c. , Photograph, B 8509/2E

Michael Kenny, 1808-1892, arrived in South Australia in ca.1842 landing in Launceston, Tasmania on board the ship the Branken Moor. Farmer, Morphett Vale, Sheoak Log, Yorketown, Colton, South Australia. Kenny's eyes are closed in the portrait. An obituary in The Express and Telegraph newspaper notes that he 'took an active part in all public matters until his eyesight failed, but he was able to attend meetings until quite recently'.

TRESS (Teleprinter Reperforator Switching System) machines

c. 1960, Photograph, B 78585

Several banks of Teleprinter Reperforator Switching Syestem (TRESS) machines and their operators, believed to be at the Adelaide General Post Office. These machines were introduced across Australia in 1960.

Photograph album of Nullabor Station

c. 1910, Photograph, B 78606

Album of photographs taken in the vicinity of Nullabor Station, including views of buildings, people, camels, horses, cliffs by the ocean and beaches believed to be around the Great Australian Bight, agricultural activities and farm labourers. Includes some images of Aboriginal people. A small selection of images has been digitised.

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