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Staff of Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery of South Australia. [B 9355{BW] • Photograph

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Summary

Staff of Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery of South Australia photographed on the morning of the 4th anniversary of World War I, Saturday 4 August 1917. Top row (left to right): Lance-Corporal Frank Hutchinson Robinson (Library Cadet), A. Ratcliffe (Museum Attendant), Clyde Taylor Whiting (Library Assistant), Herbert Greenwood (First Library Assistant), George Henry Pitt (Cataloguer), John Frost (labourer and General Assistant), Frank Ford Harker Born (Library Cadet), John A. Paynter, S. Eyles, Herbert M. Hale (Museum Photographer), Samuel Job Pentelow (Caretaker), and John Conroy (Ethnologist's Assistant). Second row: G.H. Shepherd, G. Hill, Ferdinand Julius 'John' Rau (Taxidermist), C. Lawrence, Alfred James Fallon (Assistant Gardener and Relief Attendant), John Leslie (Public Library Forwarder), Carl Gustav Adolph 'Otto' Rau (Taxidermist), G. Mitchel, E.A. Hunt, G. Sharpe, and Edwin Chester Gifford (Library Cadet). Third row: O.N. Noacke (Senior Museum Attendant), Frederick P. Adams (Junior Library Assistant), Miss Florence Rita Verran (Messenger and Office Assistant), Mrs E. Schottelius (Cleaner), Mrs Lucy M. Downs (Cleaner), Miss Christina Elizabeth Christensen (Chief Collator and Sewer), Mrs A. Drew (Cleaner), Miss Ethela Ruth Hale (Junior Clerk), Miss Lucy May Harwood (Accountant and Chief Clerk), Miss J. Schottelius (Cleaner), Miss Marjorie May Johns (Office Assistant), Miss Dulcie Dalwood (Collator and Sewer), Norman Barnett Tindale (Library Cadet) and Edgar James Thomas (Clerk). Seated: John Waddy (Book Binder), Samuel Thomas Otho Pentelow (Cataloguer), Gustave Adrian Barnes (Artist and Art Supervisor), Herbert John Keyes (Acting Librarian), Joseph Robert George Adams (General Secretary), Edgar R. Waite (Museum Director), Friedrich Robert Zietz (Ornithologist), Arthur Mills Lea (Entomologist), Miss Sedley Towler (Keeper of Coins), Robert Limb (Formator), and W.G. Heath. Front row: Eric Wilfred Lanyon (Library Cadet), Pentelow, John McLellan (Junior Clerk), and Douglas Miels (Library Cadet). Insets: Private Hately Waddell Marshall, Bombardier Hubert Rutherford Purnell (Librarian), Private Cyril Harry Hannaford (Periodicals Room Attendant), and Signaller Malcolm McRae (Junior Clerk).

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Physical description

1 photograph ; 24.1 cm x 18.5 cm.

Dates / Publication details

1917

Photographer

Gabriel, Francis

Collection

Part of General Collection

Subject

Adams, Joseph Robert George, 1859-1919
Adams, Frederick Penoyre, 1897-1950
Barnes, Gustave Adrian, 1878-1921
Born, Frank Ford Harker
Christensen, Christina Elizabeth, 1873-
Conroy, John, 1869-1948
Dalwood, Dulcie, 1891-
Fallon, Alfred James, -1948
Frost, John
Gifford, Edwin Chester
Greenwood, Herbert
Hale, Ethela Ruth, 1896-
Hale, Herbert M. (Herbert Mathew), 1895-1963
Hannaford, C. H. (Cyril Harry), 1897-1975
Harwood, Lucy May, 1869-
Keyes, Herbert John, 1883-1952
Lanyon, Eric Wilfred, 1901-1982
Lea, Arthur M. (Arthur Mills), 1868-1932
Leslie, John, 1873-
Limb, Robert, 1857-1942
McRae, Malcolm, 1895-1981
Marshall, Hately Waddell, 1885-1970
McLellan, John, 1900-1966
Miels, Douglas Ronald, 1902-1981
Paynter, John Arundel, 1892-1979
Pentelow, Samuel Job, 1868-1931
Pentelow, Samuel Thomas Otho, 1892-
Pitt, G. H. (George Henry), 1891-1972
Purnell, H. Rutherford (Hubert Rutherford), 1882-1944
Rau, Ferdinand Julius, 1863-1942
Rau, Carl Gustav Adolph, 1858-1927
Robinson, Frank Hutchinson, 1899-1970
Thomas, Edgar James, 1892
Towler, Mary Ann Sedley, 1861-1931
Verran, Florence Rita, 1902-
Waddy, John Wasley, 1861-1937
Waite, Edgar R. (Edgar Ravenswood), 1866-1928
Whiting, Clyde Taylor, 1895-1967
Zietz, Friedrich Robert, -1922
Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery of South Australia -- Employees

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General notes

This photograph published in The Observer newspaper 15 September 1917, page 26.

In his journal entry of Saturday 4 August 1917 Norman B. Tindale records, "Arrived Library at 9 on 4 Anniv of War. Went with others to Admin Dept & there roll was called & then we sang "god save the King" & had our photo taken on the lawn against the building.".

Digitisation information

Date

23/11/2005

Format

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Resolution

3,160 x 2,461 pixels (7.8 MP)

Size

7.81 MB

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