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Adelaide View [B 5099/8] • Photograph

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Summary

[General description] View of southern Adelaide from the Town Hall Tower with Victoria Square in the foreground. Parklands, distant suburbs and hills are seen in the distance. On the centre left is the original Supreme Court building (completed in 1851), later to house the Magistrate's Courts. Near the centre is the Rainbow Tavern, Acre 407, Gouger Street, first licensed in 1853. The tall chimney on the right belongs to the Crown Steam Mill (on Mill Street) which was later to become Verco's Mill. In the distance on the south parklands are the rifle butts used by the militia for shooting practice. Part of Panorama of Adelaide / Photographed from the Town Hall tower by Townsend Duryea in 1865 / Copied in 15 sections from B 5099.

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Physical description

Photograph (acetate negative);
16.0 cm x 21.2 cm

Dates / Publication details

1865

Photographer

Duryea, Townsend

Collections

Part of Adelaide Views Collection
Part of A Collection

Subject

Rainbow Tavern (Adelaide, S.A.)
Panoramas -- South Australia -- Adelaide

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Digitisation information

Date

17/02/2021

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

16,729 x 13,041 pixels (218.2 MP)

Size

436.35 MB

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