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Photographs and slides [BRG 155/5/1-40] • Photograph

Photographs and slides

Crompton Bunyip Soaps, c. 1892-1970, Photograph, BRG 155/5/31

Photographs by D. Darian Smith of trolley bus number 433 displaying advertisements for Bunyip Soap, Crompton's Oxy-Suds and Disho for dishes

Photographs and slides — Photographs and slides

Crompton Bunyip Soaps, c. 1892-1970, Photograph, BRG 155/5/31

Photographs by D. Darian Smith of trolley bus number 433 displaying advertisements for Bunyip Soap, Crompton's Oxy-Suds and Disho for dishes

Photographs and slides

Crompton Bunyip Soaps, c. 1892-1970, Photograph, BRG 155/5/32

Photographs by D. Darian Smith of trolley bus number 433 displaying advertisements for Bunyip Soap, Crompton's Oxy-Suds and Disho for dishes

Photographs and slides — Photographs and slides

Crompton Bunyip Soaps, c. 1892-1970, Photograph, BRG 155/5/32

Photographs by D. Darian Smith of trolley bus number 433 displaying advertisements for Bunyip Soap, Crompton's Oxy-Suds and Disho for dishes

Photographs and slides

Crompton Bunyip Soaps, c. 1892-1970, Photograph, BRG 155/5/33

Photographs by D. Darian Smith of trolley bus number 433 displaying advertisements for Bunyip Soap, Crompton's Oxy-Suds and Disho for dishes

Photographs and slides — Photographs and slides

Crompton Bunyip Soaps, c. 1892-1970, Photograph, BRG 155/5/33

Photographs by D. Darian Smith of trolley bus number 433 displaying advertisements for Bunyip Soap, Crompton's Oxy-Suds and Disho for dishes

Photographs and slides

Crompton Bunyip Soaps, c. 1892-1970, Photograph, BRG 155/5/34

Tram number 255 displaying an advertisement for Oxy-Suds

Photographs and slides — Photographs and slides

Crompton Bunyip Soaps, c. 1892-1970, Photograph, BRG 155/5/34

Tram number 255 displaying an advertisement for Oxy-Suds

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Crompton Bunyip Soaps, c. 1892-1970, Photograph, BRG 155/5/35

Oxy-Suds

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Crompton Bunyip Soaps, c. 1892-1970, Photograph, BRG 155/5/35

Oxy-Suds

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Crompton Bunyip Soaps, c. 1892-1970, Photograph, BRG 155/5/36

Oxy-Suds

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Crompton Bunyip Soaps, c. 1892-1970, Photograph, BRG 155/5/36

Oxy-Suds

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Crompton Bunyip Soaps, c. 1892-1970, Photograph, BRG 155/5/37

Crompton's Bunyip Soap

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Crompton Bunyip Soaps, c. 1892-1970, Photograph, BRG 155/5/37

Crompton's Bunyip Soap

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Crompton Bunyip Soaps, c. 1892-1970, Photograph, BRG 155/5/38

Crompton Bunyip Soap (photograph taken by Colin Ballantyne)

Photographs and slides — Photographs and slides

Crompton Bunyip Soaps, c. 1892-1970, Photograph, BRG 155/5/38

Crompton Bunyip Soap (photograph taken by Colin Ballantyne)

Photographs and slides

Crompton Bunyip Soaps, c. 1892-1970, Photograph, BRG 155/5/39

Photograph taken by Colin Ballantyne of a range of Crompton Soap products

Photographs and slides — Photographs and slides

Crompton Bunyip Soaps, c. 1892-1970, Photograph, BRG 155/5/39

Photograph taken by Colin Ballantyne of a range of Crompton Soap products

Photographs and slides

Crompton Bunyip Soaps, c. 1892-1970, Photograph, BRG 155/5/40

Composite photograph of Henry Woodhouse Crompton, Joseph Crompton (senior) and Owen Crompton.

Photographs and slides — Photographs and slides

Crompton Bunyip Soaps, c. 1892-1970, Photograph, BRG 155/5/40

Composite photograph of Henry Woodhouse Crompton, Joseph Crompton (senior) and Owen Crompton.

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Summary

Photographs of the factory and employees of the Bunyip Soap Company. Slides relating to advertising relating to Bunyip Soaps.

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Physical description

Photograph (slide)
35 mm
colour;
photograph (print)
black and white
40 photographs : 2 cm

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1892-1970

Creator

Crompton Bunyip Soaps

Subject

Bunyip Soap Company
Soap factories -- South Australia -- Southwark
Advertising -- Soap -- South Australia

Catalogue record

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Formatted content

BRG 155/5/1: Staff including George Phelps, Walter Milbourne, Bill Whaley and boy, February 1892'
BRG 155/5/2: 'Robert Crompton (5th from right) with factory staff' outside the Bunyip Soap Factory, 'May 1900'. Names on the verso are only partly legible, but include Mossop Young and boys, Fred Phelps, T. Phelps, George Phelps, Bill Letcher, Walter Milbourne (Junior). For view of verso see photograph 2v
BRG 155/5/3: group portrait of staff and workers of the Bunyip Soap Factory
BRG 155/5/4: 'Bunyip Soap Factory, Southwark, about 1896', located near the River Torrens. Photograph by 'S. G. Spink, Vice-Regal photographer, 69a Rundle Street Adelaide'
BRG 155/5/5: Interior view of soap works, with workmen pictured at work on top of large soap moulds. A label for 'Magnetic Soap' is seen on the mould at the front. Photograph 'about 1896' by 'S. G. Spink, Vice-Regal photographer, 69a, Rundle Street, Adelaide'. Handwritten caption on verso names the following people, 'Jim Pain, Bill Letcher, Albert Gibson, Barnes, Walter Milbourne Junior, Boy Joe Churcher, Boss Walter Milbourne Senior'
BRG 155/5/6: 'The Bunyip Soap Company Limited, Southwark, December 1898', view of the factory and plant. The mount has been hand illustrated and cut to resemble a long package or bar of soap, and inked initials on the verso look like 'F. H. P. 1899'
BRG 155/5/7: banner for Bunyip Soap Company and exhibit of soap products of Southern Seas Soap (Tasmania) and Wyandotte, for cleaning everything, Newell & Co.' at a trade exhibition in Melbourne. Photograph by Dargo, St Kilda
BRG 155/5/8: group portrait of employees at the 'Bunyip Soap factory, taken 1936'
BRG 155/5/9: view of the Bunyip Soap factory buildings
BRG 155/5/10: 'ask about Oxy-Suds for your laundry', advertising banner on the Hackney tram. Photograph by Colin Ballantyne, Adelaide
BRG 155/5/11: advertising for Crompton's Oxy-Suds on Port Adelaide trolley bus 432
BRG 155/5/12: advertising for Crompton's Oxy-Suds on Port Adelaide trolley bus 432
BRG 155/5/13: front view of Bunyip Buildings, Gawler Place, Adelaide
BRG 155/5/14: street view of Bunyip Buildings, 142 Gawler Place, then premises of Ski Cellar
BRG 155/5/15: M.T.T. bus number 857 displaying advertising for Oxy Suds
BRG 155/5/16: Two men viewing Oxy Suds advertisements on side of bus
BRG 155/5/17: Bus advertising Cap Soap Filled Steel Wool Pads
BRG 155/5/18: Bus advertising Cap Soap Filled Steel Wool Pads
BRG 155/5/19: Interior of bus advertising Quality Products by Cromptons
BRG 155/5/20: Bus interior with advertisement for Blue Oxy Suds and Cap Soap Filled Steel Wool Pads
BRG 155/5/21: Two men on a bus that is advertising Crompton soap products
BRG 155/5/22: Flat tray truck piled high with Crompton soap products
BRG 155/5/23: Poster board showing Crompton Bunyip Soaps Ltd. products including tallow, soap powders, detergents, liquid soaps, cleaners and laundry soaps
BRG 155/5/24: Man viewing poster board of Crompton soap products which rests on a chair below photographs of three Crompton family members
BRG 155/5/25: Two men viewing poster board of Crompton soap products which rests on a chair below photographs of three Crompton family members
BRG 155/5/26: Poster board showing Crompton Bunyip Soaps Ltd. products displayed below photographs of family members
BRG 155/5/27: Man who is holding a display of Crompton soap products standing between two other men
BRG 155/5/28: Front of a tram which is displaying an advertisement for Disho for dishes
BRG 155/5/29: Touched-up photograph by Howard R. Boase of a Hills Hoist clothes line
BRG 155/5/30: Photographs by D. Darian Smith of trolley bus number 433 displaying advertisements for Bunyip Soap, Crompton's Oxy-Suds and Disho for dishes
BRG 155/5/31: Photographs by D. Darian Smith of trolley bus number 433 displaying advertisements for Bunyip Soap, Crompton's Oxy-Suds and Disho for dishes
BRG 155/5/32: Photographs by D. Darian Smith of trolley bus number 433 displaying advertisements for Bunyip Soap, Crompton's Oxy-Suds and Disho for dishes
BRG 155/5/33: Photographs by D. Darian Smith of trolley bus number 433 displaying advertisements for Bunyip Soap, Crompton's Oxy-Suds and Disho for dishes
BRG 155/5/34: Tram number 255 displaying an advertisement for Oxy-Suds
BRG 155/5/35: Oxy-Suds
BRG 155/5/36: Oxy-Suds
BRG 155/5/37: Crompton's Bunyip Soap
BRG 155/5/38: Crompton Bunyip Soap (photograph taken by Colin Ballantyne)
BRG 155/5/39: Photograph taken by Colin Ballantyne of a range of Crompton Soap products
BRG 155/5/40: Composite photograph of Henry Woodhouse Crompton, Joseph Crompton (senior) and Owen Crompton.

General notes

See also BRG 156/6 for additional photographs relating to Bunyip Soaps.

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