Party on the Glenelg River [D 7939/P12(T)] • Photograph
Party on the Glenelg River
The Mayor of Adelaide, Sir Lewis Cohen, and party on the Glenelg River, 28 February 1890. Photograph taken on the steamboat 'Perseverance', the first steamboat on the Glenelg River, built at Nelson about 1879. An article in the Border Watch dated 5/3/1898 states that the vessel called the Perseverance was built by Mr Anderson of Port MacDonnell for Mr D. Matheson at a cost of 800 pounds. See also D 7939/P11(T).