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Adelaide welcomes Aidan de Brune, who has walked around Australia [PRG 280/1/37/54] • Photograph

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Summary

Mr. J.H. Flannagan of the Imperial Hotel, Grenfell Street, Adelaide photographed welcoming Aidan de Brune, who had walked around Australia to Adelaide; he is handing over a piece of paper which could be a cheque outside the premises of the hotel where a small crowd of spectators stand watching. A researcher has provided the following information from the diary of Aidan de Brune (a pseudonym of Herbert Charles Cull), documenting his walk around Australia, from the entry for 23 November 1923, day 795 of the journey: 'To leave Sydney on foot, to walk ten thousand miles (more or less) around Australia, calling at all the ports en route on the four coasts, and to return to Sydney, was the task set me'. The diary is available to read online from Project Gutenberg Australia - 'Record diary of a walk around Australia' by Aidan de Brune.

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Physical description

1 photograph : black and white ; 11.5 x 15 cm

Dates / Publication details

1923

Collection

Part of Searcy Collection

Subject

De Brune, Aidan, 1874-1946
Hotelkeepers -- South Australia -- Adelaide.
Walking -- Australia.

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General notes

For another copy see PRG 280/1/40/17. For a similar image and more information see PRG 280/1/33/188.

For details see article 'Aidan de Brune' by J.T. Beckett in 'Northern Standard' newspaper (Darwin, NT), Friday 5 October 1923, page 1.

Digitisation information

Date

06/04/2002

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Resolution

3,000 x 2,134 pixels (6.4 MP)

Size

6.41 MB

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