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Robert Davenport family album [PRG 40/138/2/1-128] • Photograph

Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/61

Old Gum tree from which South Australia proclamation as [?] colony was read

Robert Davenport family album — Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/61

Old Gum tree from which South Australia proclamation as [?] colony was read

Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/62

River Murray at [the?] Co Bend, one of my first photos

Robert Davenport family album — Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/62

River Murray at [the?] Co Bend, one of my first photos

Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/63

Noel on beach at Port Elliot

Robert Davenport family album — Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/63

Noel on beach at Port Elliot

Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/64

M. F. D (Mary Fulford Davenport) and Mrs R. N. D. (Robert Noel Davenport) at Battunga

Robert Davenport family album — Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/64

M. F. D (Mary Fulford Davenport) and Mrs R. N. D. (Robert Noel Davenport) at Battunga

Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/65

View of Port Elliot

Robert Davenport family album — Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/65

View of Port Elliot

Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/66

Milly? and children? at North Adelaide (one of the children is sitting in a cane perambulator)

Robert Davenport family album — Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/66

Milly? and children? at North Adelaide (one of the children is sitting in a cane perambulator)

Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/67

C. J. D. and Bobbie, North Adelaide

Robert Davenport family album — Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/67

C. J. D. and Bobbie, North Adelaide

Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/68

House on Onkaparinga

Robert Davenport family album — Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/68

House on Onkaparinga

Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/69

Wheat field South Australia. [Horse drawn harvester in operation]

Robert Davenport family album — Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/69

Wheat field South Australia. [Horse drawn harvester in operation]

Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/70

Lashbrooke near Battunga South Australia

Robert Davenport family album — Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/70

Lashbrooke near Battunga South Australia

Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/71

Lashbrooke near Battunga South Australia

Robert Davenport family album — Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/71

Lashbrooke near Battunga South Australia

Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/72

Flock of sheep, South Australia

Robert Davenport family album — Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/72

Flock of sheep, South Australia

Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/73

Lashbrooke House near Battunga. [Lashbrook house was at Yates Lane Macclesfield]

Robert Davenport family album — Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/73

Lashbrooke House near Battunga. [Lashbrook house was at Yates Lane Macclesfield]

Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/74

Macclesfield South Australia

Robert Davenport family album — Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/74

Macclesfield South Australia

Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/75

Onkaparinga River bridge, South Australia

Robert Davenport family album — Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/75

Onkaparinga River bridge, South Australia

Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/76

View of Adelaide, looking South East from Montefiore Hill in North Adelaide, across Adelaide Oval. See PRG 40/138/2/77 for a connecting view

Robert Davenport family album — Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/76

View of Adelaide, looking South East from Montefiore Hill in North Adelaide, across Adelaide Oval. See PRG 40/138/2/77 for a connecting view

Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/77

View of Adelaide, looking South East from Montefiore Hill in North Adelaide. Factory chimneys and the railway yards can be seen in the foreground beyond the River Torrens. The Town Hall and Post Office towers are visible with the Adelaide Hills in the distance. See PRG 40/138/2/76 for a connecting view

Robert Davenport family album — Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/77

View of Adelaide, looking South East from Montefiore Hill in North Adelaide. Factory chimneys and the railway yards can be seen in the foreground beyond the River Torrens. The Town Hall and Post Office towers are visible with the Adelaide Hills in the distance. See PRG 40/138/2/76 for a connecting view

Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/78

Railway bridge in the hills near Adelaide. Sleeps Hill railway bridge under construction

Robert Davenport family album — Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/78

Railway bridge in the hills near Adelaide. Sleeps Hill railway bridge under construction

Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/79

Noarlunga Road near Adelaide. The horse shoe

Robert Davenport family album — Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/79

Noarlunga Road near Adelaide. The horse shoe

Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/80

Torrens Dam, Adelaide

Robert Davenport family album — Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/80

Torrens Dam, Adelaide

Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/81

Flock of sheep on S. A. Station

Robert Davenport family album — Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/81

Flock of sheep on S. A. Station

Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/82

Vineyard Magill, S. A.

Robert Davenport family album — Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/82

Vineyard Magill, S. A.

Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/83

Largs Bay, South Australia, showing a steam train on the jetty

Robert Davenport family album — Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/83

Largs Bay, South Australia, showing a steam train on the jetty

Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/84

H. D. (Howard Davenport) on bicycle at Battunga

Robert Davenport family album — Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/84

H. D. (Howard Davenport) on bicycle at Battunga

Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/85

R. D. [and ?] at Battunga

Robert Davenport family album — Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/85

R. D. [and ?] at Battunga

Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/86

Amy with her goats Battunga. Image shows three young women and a dog, with two goats harnessed to a small cart

Robert Davenport family album — Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/86

Amy with her goats Battunga. Image shows three young women and a dog, with two goats harnessed to a small cart

Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/87

Back view Battunga [with washing on the clothes' line]

Robert Davenport family album — Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/87

Back view Battunga [with washing on the clothes' line]

Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/88

Snapshot in Battunga paddock [family group]

Robert Davenport family album — Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/88

Snapshot in Battunga paddock [family group]

Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/89

[?] group. Russell, Alf, S?, at Battunga [showing group of men with their dogs]

Robert Davenport family album — Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/89

[?] group. Russell, Alf, S?, at Battunga [showing group of men with their dogs]

Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/90

Beaumont House

Robert Davenport family album — Robert Davenport family album

Davenport (Family), c. 1880-1905, Photograph, PRG 40/138/2/90

Beaumont House

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Summary

Photograph album of the Davenport family of Battunga, near Macclesfield. Photographs include views of the homestead, property and cottages, family members at Christmas celebrations, picnics and other family occasions at Beaumont House, Port Elliot and North Adelaide. The album includes several photographs of Sir Samuel Davenport. Captions have been noted from handwritten sheets included in the album. Photographs 1-128 which relate to South Australia, have been digitised. The remaining photographs in the album are of travels overseas to Chungking, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

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Physical description

Photograph (print)
black and white
1 album (128 photographs) : black and white ; 37 x 29.5 x 4.5 cm

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1880-1905

Creator

Davenport (Family

Subject

Davenport, Robert, 1816-1896
Davenport, Samuel, Sir, 1818-1906
Davenport, Howard
Davenport, Samuel Alfred
Davenport, Robert Noel
Davenport, Mary Fulford
Davenport, Cecil John
Davenport, Amy
Battunga House (House : Macclesfield, S.A.)
Beaumont House (House : Beaumont, S.A.)
Gleeville (House : Beaumont, S.A.)
Lashbrook House (House : Macclesfield, S.A.)

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PRG 40/138/2/1: Sir Samuel Davenport aged 87 on 'Wizard' outside Gleeville in 1903
PRG 40/138/2/2: Sir Samuel Davenport in Beaumont vineyard
PRG 40/138/2/3: Battunga, front of house
PRG 40/138/2/4: Battunga, view from paddocks
PRG 40/138/2/5: Sir Samuel Davenport in olive plantation at Beaumont
PRG 40/138/2/6: Sir Samuel Davenport and E. T. [?] Beaumont Cellars
PRG 40/138/2/7: Battunga House, back view
PRG 40/138/2/8: Battunga, first bridge. R. D. (Robert Davenport), M. F. D. (Mary Fulford Davenport) & S. A. D. (Samuel Alfred Davenport)
PRG 40/138/2/9: Battunga House, front verandah (Mary, Samuel Alfred, and their father Robert pictured)
PRG 40/138/2/10: Battunga House, first bridge. View of front of house. [Another loose mounted copy (faded) is included in the album and labelled 2A]
PRG 40/138/2/11: Battunga from paddock
PRG 40/138/2/12: Battunga front, [with family pictured]
PRG 40/138/2/13: Oak tree Battunga
PRG 40/138/2/14: Battunga, front [with family members pictured]
PRG 40/138/2/15: Battunga front view [with post and rail fence]
PRG 40/138/2/16: Battunga, front view [showing driveway]
PRG 40/138/2/17: Battunga side view. R. D. by olive tree
PRG 40/138/2/18: Battunga cottage, M. F. D. & S. A. D.
PRG 40/138/2/19: Battunga, loading bags of olives. R. D., S. A. D., H. D. (Howard? Davenport) and Charlie [in farm cart ]
PRG 40/138/2/20: After bushfire in Little's paddock, Battunga
PRG 40/138/2/21: Battunga front gate
PRG 40/138/2/22: Battunga cemetery
PRG 40/138/2/23: Xmas at Battunga 1894, [group portrait of family]
PRG 40/138/2/24: Xmas at Battunga 1894, [group portrait of family]
PRG 40/138/2/25: Battunga, side view
PRG 40/138/2/26: S. A. D. [with child on his lap] Battunga paddock
PRG 40/138/2/27: Battunga cottage, west side
PRG 40/138/2/28: Battunga cottage, east side
PRG 40/138/2/29: Battunga paddock picnic group
PRG 40/138/2/30: Battunga cedar tree, south side of verandah
PRG 40/138/2/31: S. A. D. (Samuel Alfred Davenport) & Stella Harris, Battunga paddock
PRG 40/138/2/32: Oak tree, Battunga
PRG 40/138/2/33: Gold digging in Little's paddock, Battunga
PRG 40/138/2/34: [Name not decipherable] on steps
PRG 40/138/2/35: Lunch in front of Battunga House
PRG 40/138/2/36: Front of summer house [?side of orchard, Battunga] since all burnt by bush fire
PRG 40/138/2/37: [Game?] front Battunga, H. J. S-?, S. A. D., H. D.
PRG 40/138/2/38: [Game?] front Battunga, H. J. S-?, S. A. D., H. D.
PRG 40/138/2/39: [caption not deciphered] Hill, Battunga
PRG 40/138/2/40: Battunga front view
PRG 40/138/2/41: Oak tree Battunga, R. D.
PRG 40/138/2/42: Oak tree Battunga
PRG 40/138/2/43: Battunga, front view
PRG 40/138/2/44: Charlie's House, Battunga garden
PRG 40/138/2/45: Cemetery Battunga
PRG 40/138/2/46: Cemetery Battunga
PRG 40/138/2/47: Group at Wellington Square, North Adelaide, S?, W?, S.A.D. & H. D
PRG 40/138/2/48: R. D. in his study
PRG 40/138/2/49: ? aged 18 [horse]
PRG 40/138/2/50: Battunga picnic group under bloodwood tree
PRG 40/138/2/51: H. D. [in tennis clothes with racquet] at Wellington Square North Adelaide
PRG 40/138/2/52: C. J. (Cecil John) Davenport family in [Cl?]
PRG 40/138/2/53: S. A. D. ? [caption not decipherable]
PRG 40/138/2/54: S. A. D. [in lacrosse uniform] Wellington Square
PRG 40/138/2/55: C. J. D. & family at S. A. D's house [Loyola] Parkside, Adelaide
PRG 40/138/2/56: S. A. D., M. F. D at Parkside, S. A. D's House
PRG 40/138/2/57: Mrs E. D. (Ernest Devereux) Davenport and Amy and Emily Davenport
PRG 40/138/2/58: [?] W. Piper, ?, Miss E. Fulford and others
PRG 40/138/2/59: R. N. (Robert Noel) Davenport at beach at Port Elliot
PRG 40/138/2/60: Port Elliot cottage
PRG 40/138/2/61: Old Gum tree from which South Australia proclamation as [?] colony was read
PRG 40/138/2/62: River Murray at [the?] Co Bend, one of my first photos
PRG 40/138/2/63: Noel on beach at Port Elliot
PRG 40/138/2/64: M. F. D (Mary Fulford Davenport) and Mrs R. N. D. (Robert Noel Davenport) at Battunga
PRG 40/138/2/65: View of Port Elliot
PRG 40/138/2/66: Milly? and children? at North Adelaide (one of the children is sitting in a cane perambulator)
PRG 40/138/2/67: C. J. D. and Bobbie, North Adelaide
PRG 40/138/2/68: House on Onkaparinga
PRG 40/138/2/69: Wheat field South Australia. [Horse drawn harvester in operation]
PRG 40/138/2/70: Lashbrooke near Battunga South Australia
PRG 40/138/2/71: Lashbrooke near Battunga South Australia
PRG 40/138/2/72: Flock of sheep, South Australia
PRG 40/138/2/73: Lashbrooke House near Battunga. [Lashbrook house was at Yates Lane Macclesfield]
PRG 40/138/2/74: Macclesfield South Australia
PRG 40/138/2/75: Onkaparinga River bridge, South Australia
PRG 40/138/2/76: View of Adelaide, looking South East from Montefiore Hill in North Adelaide, across Adelaide Oval. See PRG 40/138/2/77 for a connecting view
PRG 40/138/2/77: View of Adelaide, looking South East from Montefiore Hill in North Adelaide. Factory chimneys and the railway yards can be seen in the foreground beyond the River Torrens. The Town Hall and Post Office towers are visible with the Adelaide Hills in the distance. See PRG 40/138/2/76 for a connecting view
PRG 40/138/2/78: Railway bridge in the hills near Adelaide. Sleeps Hill railway bridge under construction
PRG 40/138/2/79: Noarlunga Road near Adelaide. The horse shoe
PRG 40/138/2/80: Torrens Dam, Adelaide
PRG 40/138/2/81: Flock of sheep on S. A. Station
PRG 40/138/2/82: Vineyard Magill, S. A.
PRG 40/138/2/83: Largs Bay, South Australia, showing a steam train on the jetty
PRG 40/138/2/84: H. D. (Howard Davenport) on bicycle at Battunga
PRG 40/138/2/85: R. D. [and ?] at Battunga
PRG 40/138/2/86: Amy with her goats Battunga. Image shows three young women and a dog, with two goats harnessed to a small cart
PRG 40/138/2/87: Back view Battunga [with washing on the clothes' line]
PRG 40/138/2/88: Snapshot in Battunga paddock [family group]
PRG 40/138/2/89: [?] group. Russell, Alf, S?, at Battunga [showing group of men with their dogs]
PRG 40/138/2/90: Beaumont House
PRG 40/138/2/91: Looking down the drive, Beaumont
PRG 40/138/2/92: Beaumont House
PRG 40/138/2/93: Battunga
PRG 40/138/2/94: Harry Fulford, Ces and Bobbie, Battunga
PRG 40/138/2/95: Amy, Dudley and Cecil on lawn at Battunga
PRG 40/138/2/96: Port Elliot cottage
PRG 40/138/2/97: Strathalbyn
PRG 40/138/2/98: Viaduct, Hills railway near Adelaide
PRG 40/138/2/99: Waterfall Gully. Sir S. D's old woolshed
PRG 40/138/2/100: Register Office, Grenfell Street Adelaide, now pulled down. [A crowd is gathered outside the S. A. Register Office. There are broadsheets with names on them displayed and a mounted policeman in attendance]
PRG 40/138/2/101: Mount Barker
PRG 40/138/2/102: Bush pack horse
PRG 40/138/2/103: Bullock team, wheel off. [laden wool cart with wheel off]
PRG 40/138/2/104: S. A. blackfellows in front of wurley. Duplicate of Samuel Sweet photograph B 72483/46
PRG 40/138/2/105: Hindmarsh River, Port Victor
PRG 40/138/2/106: Torrens Dam, Adelaide. [Rowing boat near the Torrens weir, possibly duplicate of Samuel Sweet photograph]
PRG 40/138/2/107: Victoria Square Adelaide
PRG 40/138/2/108: Clarendon South Australia [view possibly by Samuel Sweet]
PRG 40/138/2/109: Sheep sale yards South Australia [Elder Smith & Co. stock sale yards. Duplicate of B 56362]
PRG 40/138/2/110: [?] Exhibition case in Melbourne [showing hillside with kangaroos and Aboriginal couple in front of a wurley]
PRG 40/138/2/111: Kangaroos in zoo, Adelaide
PRG 40/138/2/112: Granite Island looking to Bluff, South Australia [men on the rocks close to the water]
PRG 40/138/2/113: Port Elliot rocks, South Australia [duplicate of Sweet photograph]
PRG 40/138/2/114: Carfax Cottage, Battunga
PRG 40/138/2/115: R. D. snapshot in office Battunga
PRG 40/138/2/116: Grenfell Street Adelaide [crowds gathered and looking toward the north side of Grenfell Street. Many young women in white dresses assembled on or near horse trams]
PRG 40/138/2/117: Cattle on Campbell House, S. A. [Campbell Park, Lake Albert]
PRG 40/138/2/118: A snapshot in Scotland R. F. [?] & H. D. 1905 [a man playing bagpipes on the left]
PRG 40/138/2/119: Sheep shearing Adelaide
PRG 40/138/2/120: Onkaparinga River near Adelaide
PRG 40/138/2/121: Onkaparinga River bridge
PRG 40/138/2/122: Battunga [Robert Davenport pictured]
PRG 40/138/2/123: Snow in the hills near Adelaide
PRG 40/138/2/124: King William Street Adelaide from loft? of Cathedral [looking south from St Peter's Cathedral]
PRG 40/138/2/125: Botanic Park Adelaide
PRG 40/138/2/126: Gleeville near Adelaide [property owned by Edward Burton Gleeson near Beaumont]
PRG 40/138/2/127: Laughing jackasses, early birds [kookaburras]
PRG 40/138/2/128: Some early settlers [two children sitting on wooden steps of thatch roofed, wood slat building, location unknown].

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