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Pinnaroo Flour Mill
Pinnaroo Flour Mill, as published in the "Observer", November 11, 1922.
Flour Mill, Pinnaroo
South Australian Farmer's Union flour mill, Pinnaroo.
Packing Honey, Port Adelaide
Packing honey at Port Adelaide.
Port Lincoln Jetty
[General description] The Port Lincoln Jetty cuts across this view of seashore, ocean and the distant Boston Island. A coastal steamer, with the Union Jack at its masthead, is moored at the end of the jetty. [On back of photograph] 'Port Lincoln Jetty / November 1903'.
Main Street, Port Lincoln
Main Street, Port Lincoln showing the Post office and Memorial Hall. The Memorial Hall was erected in memory of sailors and soldiers who fought in the Great War of 1914-1918. The foundation stone, under which sat a list of almost 300 names of men who had enlisted from the district, was laid in 1923. The photograph shows both the Union Jack and the Australian Flags flying next to the Memorial Hall.
Port Minlacowie
SA Farmers Union at Port Minlacowie.
Port Darwin
[General description] Sketch of Palmerston at Port Darwin. The Union Jack flies from the top of a rocky hill and a row of tents line the beach. A small jetty has been built into the sea. [On back of photograph] Palmerston, Port Darwin. Sketch by William Webster Hoare, Surgeon's Assistant , Goyder's Survey, 1869-1870. Artwork signed by artist, bottom right. Original donated by A. Searcy.
Renmark
[General dscription] View of Renmark from the River Murray. On the left is the Settlers Club, on the right is the Fruit Packers Union sheds.
Fruit packing sheds, Renmark
[General description] Fruit Packing Union packing sheds, Renmark, taken from the River Murray
Robe
Corner of Victoria and Union Streets, Robe.
Flinders Tablet, Encounter Bay
Unveiling of the Flinders Tablet at the Bluff, Encounter Bay, Victor Harbor on April 8, 1902. Simpson Newland (Acting President of the Royal Geographical Society, SA Branch) is reading the address. The memorial is draped in the Union Jack flag and reads "In commemoration of the meeting near this Bluff between HMS "Investigator" - Matthew Flinders who explored the coast of South Australia and MF "Le Georaphe" - Nicolas Baudin, April 8, 1802. On board the "Investigator" was John Franklin the Arctic Discoverer. These English and French explorers held friendly conference and Flinders named the place of meeting "Encounter Bay". Tablet unveiled by His Excellency Lord Tennyson, April 8, 1902".
Flinders Tablet, Encounter Bay
Unveiling of the Flinders Tablet at the Bluff, Encounter Bay, Victor Harbor on April 8, 1902. Simpson Newland (Acting President of the Royal Geographical Society, SA Branch) is reading the address. The memorial is draped in the Union Jack flag and reads "In commemoration of the meeting near this Bluff between HMS "Investigator" - Matthew Flinders who explored the coast of South Australia and MF "Le Georaphe" - Nicolas Baudin, April 8, 1802. On board the "Investigator" was John Franklin the Arctic Discoverer. These English and French explorers held friendly conference and Flinders named the place of meeting "Encounter Bay". Tablet unveiled by His Excellency Lord Tennyson, April 8, 1902". In the foreground from left to right are: Charles Tucker MP, CE Owen Smyth, Simpson Newland, TS Reed, Lord and Lady Tennyson, and Lord Richard Nevill (private secretary to the Governor).
Waikerie soldiers' memorial institute
Black and white photograph of the Waikerie Soldiers' Memorial Institute, which was built in memory of the ten soldiers from Waikerie who died in WWI. The foundation stone for the memorial hall was laid on 18 March 1920 by General Birdwood, who was on tour, and the building was opened on Saturday 18 June 1921 by Mr W.D. Price M.C., president of the Returned Soldier's Association, and a large Union Jack was unfurled. This photograph may possibly be of the 1921 opening. A researcher has noted that the hall was later added to, and this new Institute Hall was officially opened on Thursday 30 August 1928, by Sir William Sowden, chairman of the Institutes' Association.
Henry Thomas Burgess
{General description] This is a head and shoulders portrait of the Reverend H.T. Burgess, with the subject looking straight at the camera. He was a Wesleyan Methodist minister whose most important ecclesiastical contribution was his advocacy of union of the four branches of the Methodist movement. Also a journalist he was the author of several religious works, the best known being 'Methodism and the Twentieth Century' (Adelaide, 1901). [On front of photograph] '(Rev.) H.T. Burgess' - Secretary of the General Conference'.
Lady Victoria Buxton
Lady Victoria Buxton was a British philanthropist principally known as her work with the Mother's Union and Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA). In 1895 she accompanied her husband to South Australia upon his appointment as Governor-General. She continued her philanthropic activity by sponsoring reading circles and supporting missionary work. She returned to England in 1898 when her health deterioratedand did not return to Australia
Edward Erskine Cleland
Judge Edward Erskine Cleland. A newspaper cutting on the back of the photograph says: Mr Cleland, who was born at Beaumont, South Australia, 67 years ago is a son of the late Mr JF Cleland, a former Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages. He was educated at Prince Alfred College, articled with Mr William Pope, and took his LL.B degree on April 25, 1890. On the following day he was called to the Bar, and soon afterwards was appointed Associate to the late Mr Justice Bundey. In 1891 he entered practice, and his career has been remarkably successful. By 1913 it was recorded that he had by far the greatest number of cases in the High Court of any counsel from this State. He was appointed a King's Counsel in December, 1912 and soon afterwards was honored by an appointment by the then Attorney-General (Mr Homburg) to go to London as one of the counsel in the dispute boundary case between South Australia and Victoria. Mr Cleland has had wide interests outside his profession among the positions he has held being those of vice-president of the Law Society, chairman of the South Australian Football League and chairman of the Kindergarten Union.
William James Crawford
William James Crawford Manager of the Union Bank for twenty five years. He lived in North Adelaide and was Past Provincial Grand Master of the Freemasons under the Irish Constitution. He died in January 1896 at the age of seventy six.
Henry Douglas
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.
Walter Hutley
Walter Hutley was general secretary of the Liberal Union until 1913. He was a prominent Congregational church man and mission worker. He was born in England and arrived in South Australia in 1884. He also served on the State Children's Council and the Mental Defectives' Board. He lived at Largs Bay and died in 1931 aged 73.
Elizabeth Johnston
Ambrotype portrait of Elizabeth ('Eliza') Denovan Johnston, nee Gowan, wife of Reverend Kerr Johnston of the Victorian Bethel Union for Seamen.
Rev. Charles Bright
[General description] Head and shoulders portrait in three quarters view of Rev. Charles Bright, popular pastor at Norwood Baptist Church from 1892 to 1910. He was President of the Baptist Union, 1896-1897.
John Abel MacPherson
John Abel MacPherson (1860-1897) Union Official, First Leader of the South Australian Parliamentary Labour Party
Henry Darnley Naylor
[General description] Head and shoulders portrait of Professor Naylor in profile. His face is lit in contrast to the dark background. He was a classical scholar, proficient in five languages and an outstanding teacher who had a powerful influence on his students. He was the founder and enthusiastic South Australian advocate of the League of Nations Union, working hard to improve international relations before the outbreak of World War 11. [On back of photograph] 'Professor H. Darnley Naylor (Original in the posession of the General Secretary' (Another hand) 'Public Library, S.A.'
Elizabeth Webb Nicholls
Mrs Elizabeth Webb Nicholls (1850-1943) is remembered as a social reformer, women's activist, women's suffragist and editor of "Our Federation" the journal of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. She played a large part in women getting the vote in South Australia in 1896. She became victorious when her platform for 6.0'clock closing succeeded in 1915. She justified all reforms on temperance and social purity.
Thomas Price
[General description] Head and shoulders portrait of Thomas Price, in three quarter view. A stonemason by trade, he cut the stone and shaped the marble capitals on the columns of the new Parliament House. He became an active trade union member, later elected as member for Sturt in the South Australian House of Assembly in 1893, eventually becoming the Premier of South Australia from 1905 until his death in 1909. His successful stable labour government was regarded as a 'world first'.
Thomas Hyland Smeaton
Thomas Hyland Smeaton was an Australian politician and trade unionist. He was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1905-1921. Despite a speech impediment he held roles in the voluntary militia (Lieutenant Colonel), Caledonian Literary Society, Fire Brigades Board, Tramway Employee's Union, Adelaide School of Mines, Stow Memorial Congregational Church and the Temperance Movement. He married Jessie Saxby in 1884
Thomas Quinton Stow
Reverend Thomas Quenton Stow formed the first Congregational Church in South Australia and was the first chairman of the Congregational Union of South Australia. He farmed a property on the River Torrens which he named Felixstow.
Hon. Frederick Samuel Wallis
[General description] Head and shoulders portrait of the subject, a very dapper gentleman with high shirt collar and clipped moustache looking straight at the camera. He was a printer by trade, trade union official and Labor politician. [On back of photograph] 'Hon. Frederick Samuel Wallis (from a photo taken in 1911) and the signature F.S.Wallis'.
Mr Herbert Kenny
[On front of photograph] 'Burke's Grave. Coopers Creek.' [General description] Mr Herbert Kenny (on the right) and stockman at Burke's grave, Innamincka, where Burke was temporarily buried. Burke was buried wrapped in a Union Jack, under this box tree on the south-eastern bank of Cooper's Creek. Alfred Howitt, who headed the rescue expedition sent to find the explorers, blazed this tree at the head of Burke's grave. The initials R.O.H.B. and part of the date, 1861 can be seen.