Adelaide
'Strathaird' photograph album
Date: [ca 1935-1937]
From: Hampton, Richard George, 1906-2006: Collection
Reference: PA1-o-1567
Description: Photograph album compiled by Richard George Hampton, circa 1935-1937, during an ocean cruise on the 'Strathaird'. Includes tourist views of Australia, voyage to London via Sri Lanka, India, Yemen, Sudan, Egypt and Malta, the proclamation and coronation of Edward VIII, Mahmoud's Derby at Tottenham, Doddy's restaurants, British AAA Championships at White City, New Zealand Olympic team in July 1936 at White City and at the Berlin Olympic Games including Jack Lovelock, the McMahon Incident, Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: 155 x 230 mm
Cooke, Albert Charles 1836-1902 :Adelaide. Drawn by A C Cooke; engraved by S Calvert. [...
Date: 1876
By: Cooke, Albert Charles, 1836-1902; Calvert, Samuel, 1828-1913; Illustrated Australian news (Newspaper)
Reference: D-002-028
Description: A birds eye view of Adelaide Extended Title - Supplement to: Illustrated Australian News. July, 1876. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving 586 x 955 mm
Album of trip to Britain and Europe
Date: 1956
From: McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995: Photographs
Reference: PA1-q-578
Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Album relating to voyage to England, 1931
Date: 1931
From: Castle family :Photographs
Reference: PA1-o-1613
Description: Album relating to journey from New Zealand to England via the Suez Canal. Includes photographs of floral tributes to Zillah prior to her departure; embarkation in Wellington July 1931; Voyage to Sydney; Sydney parks, buildings, zoos, beaches; Dixon family in Sydney; Melbourne gardens, buildings; Adelaide buildings, parks, gardens; King's Park, Perth, buildings, opening pearls, Serpentine Falls and Western Australian aboriginals; Colombo, Ceylon, catamarans, coconut palms, native quarters, rickshaws, High cast Indian girl; Aden; Red Sea; Suez Canal; Bedoin Sheik; Ismalia; Port Tewfik; Port Said; Voyage on 'Balranald'; Fancy dress and deck tennis, and lifeboat drills on ship; Australian heavyweight George Cook training on ship; Malta; Gibraltar; Spainish coast; First sight of England, Chalk cliffs of Dover. In 1931 Zillah Castle received a violin scholarship to the Royal College of Music, London, where she went chaperoned by Mavis, her eldest sister. They returned in 1934. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 18 x 30 cm
Lutheran Church of New Zealand : Fishy tales; a Fischer history as recorded by Gerhard ...
Date: 2002, [2003]
By: Lutheran Church of New Zealand
Reference: MS-Papers-8080
Description: Memoir recorded by Gerhard Fischer in 2002 describing his life; he begins from the time of his birth in 1918, describes family circumstances, living in Adelaide, their church associations, economic situation, education, training as a minister, his marriage, birth of his children, his various postings which included Christchurch, New Zealand, from which he travelled to Timaru, Dunedin and Hanmer Springs ministerting to immigrants, other travel experiences, family changes and development etc Source of title - Supplied and transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with photocopies of photographs and illustrations Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by the Lutheran Church of New Zealand, per Rev Dr Steen Olsen, Palmerston North, Aug 2004
Letters from James Filer / transcribed and edited by Hubert Filer
Date: 1920, 2000
From: Filer family : Letters from James Filer
Reference: MS-Papers-6930-2
Description: Transcriptions of letters from James Filer to his father and step-mother in the United Kingdom written while he was travelling on the SS `Borda' to Australia via South Africa; also one letter written to them from Westport Filer wrote in diary form describing the course of the voyage, activities and events on board the ship, various sightings from it, their time in Cape Town, and arrival in Australia; included in the transcript are copies of photographs showing the ship, passengers and other aspects of the voyage. The transcriber and editor, Hubert Filer, also divided the account into England to Cape Town, 4-23 Jun 1920, Cape Town to Durban, 25-28 Jun 1920, Durban to Adelaide, 5-22 Jul 1920, Adelaide to Melbourne, 31 Jul-1 Aug 1920, Sydney, 9 Aug 1920 and New Zealand, 22 Aug 1920. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Hindmarsh, Mary 1817-1887 :The first Government House, Adelaide, South Australia / from...
Date: 1836
By: Hindmarsh, Mary, 1817-1887
Reference: A-260-051
Description: Appears to be a photograph of a lithograph illustrating p. 115 of Hindmarsh, Frederick Stewart. From powder monkey to Governor (Western Australia, Access Press, 1995), taken from an earlier publication. Shows the house on the far side of a river, with surrounding trees. Neither the Alexander Turnbull Library nor the Hocken Library holds the original of this sketch Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photo ; b&w 185 x 275 mm Provenance: Given to T M Hocken by the son of Capt. Hindmarsh, 1st Governor of South Australia
Personal collection of Sir William Bragg (Continued)
Date: 1904-1942
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2016
Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
International Congress of Soil Science (9th ; 1968; Adelaide, S. Aust.) :9th Internatio...
Date: 1968
From: [Ephemera up to quarto size, relating to botany, botanical species and specimens, in New Zealand]
By: International Congress of Soil Science (9th : 1968 : Adelaide, S. Aust.)
Reference: Eph-B-BOTANY-1968-01
Description: Programme of a conference held in Adelaide. New Zealand contributors include: Margery Cooper (Day 2, section IV), J D Cowie and C G Vucetich (Day 2, section V), H S Gibbs and M L Leamy (Day 3, section V), R J Furkert and M Fieldes (Day 3, section VII), D A [Douglas Archibald] Campbell (Day 4, section VI) Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Spiral-bound booklet, 270 x 128 mm.
Journals and diaries JOD/119 - JOD/158
Date: 1852-1932
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2834
Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
Diary - Journey from Sydney to Adelaide
Date: 1838-1839
From: Crawford family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1001-003
Description: Diary of a journey from Sydney to Adelaide driving a herd of cattle Quantity: 1 volume(s).
McCracken family : Papers
Date: 1841-1918
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1976
Description: Correspondence of Robert, Alexander and Jane McCracken, who settled near Melbourne and Adelaide; includes correspondence with friends and relatives who settled in Southland and Canterbury Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, AJCP
Beyond expectations
Date: [ca 1989-1990]
From: Ronnie, Mary Allan, 1926-2023 : Papers
Reference: 95-249-1/10
Description: Address given to the Friends of the State Library of South Australia annual dinner in the Mortlock Library, Adelaide Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Gloucestershire Record Office : Miscellaneous collections
Date: 1771-1950
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2290
Description: Selected records of Bisley, Dursley and Dymock Parishes, and selections of private records. relevant to Australia and New Zealand Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, AJCP, 1990
Birell album 2
Date: [1890s-1900s?]
From: Teale, Edmund Oswald (Sir), 1874-1971 : Birell album
By: Charles H Kerry & Company; Shearsby, A J, active 1913-1928; Star Photo Company; De Tourret, Ernest, active 1909-1912; New Zealand. Tourism Department
Reference: PA1-q-029
Description: Postcards, chiefly of Australia, including Tasmania, Adelaide, Queensland, New South Wales, with several showing various tin mines in Tasmania. There is a section of New Zealand postcards in the middle of the album, many taken by an Australian photographic company "Charles H Kerry & Co", labelled "Series 53. Hot Lakes District, New Zealand". These images are tinted, and include views of the Huka Falls, the Pink and White Terraces, Waiotapu, Ohinemutu, Whakarewarewa, Lakes Waikaremoana and Taupo, and the Aratiatia Rapids. The NZ images also include views of the Mount Cook region of the South Island, including Franz Josef Glacier, Hooker Glacier, Mounts Darwin, Sefton and Cook, and Lakes Te Anau and Wakatipu. Many of the postcards show the photographers' names, and include R C Harvey, A J Shearsby, the Star Photo Co., de Tourret, and the New Zealand Tourist Department. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown "Postcard album" with red, green and blue decoration, 285 x 240 mm
Hitchen, J :Adelaide, South Australia. North Terrace. Drawn on stone by J Hitchen. S St...
Date: 1974 - 1841
By: Hitchen, J, active 1974; Avon Fine Prints; Opie, Edward Andrew, 1809-1879; Hailes, James Chaplin, active 1840s
Reference: C-072-015-a
Description: A view looking along a broad flat terrace, bush on both sides, towards hills Reproduced from a lithograph in the Dixson Galleries, Mitchell Library, Sydney. The Art Gallery of South Australia holds a watercolour copy. The original artist was Edward Opie No 6 of limited edition of 1,000 copies Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph 430 x 556 mm
Henn (L) and Co :Victor Harbor - Granite Island. L Henn & Co., lithog. Adelaide [1879]
Date: 1879
By: L Henn & Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918
Reference: B-029-024
Description: A view across a plain with trees and distant houses, looking out to the sea and an island, with ships in the harbour Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph 241 x 317 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull
Papers relating to the Adelaide Festival of Arts
Date: [1960s]
From: Campion, Richard Merkiff, 1923-2013:Theatrical papers and recordings
Reference: MS-Papers-9560-113
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Photograph of actors (signed on verso) and inscribed on recto -`Sincerely - Mr Campion's "young ladies" '
Henn (L) and Co :Port River. L Henn & Co., lithog. Adelaide [1879]
Date: 1879
By: L Henn & Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918
Reference: B-029-021
Description: Shows steam and sailing ships and boats Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph 241 x 317 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull
Sir William Bragg - Notebooks
Date: 30 Jul 1904-30 Dec 1907
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2017
Description: Notebooks kept by Bragg while carrying out research on radioactivity at Adelaide University Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).