Internal evidence suggests they were taken in the mid- to late-1990s by someone with a passion for South Australia's colonial architecture, from workman's cottage to squatter's castle, as well as the more commonly recorded churches and public buildings. Although this extensive gallery of our built environs is barely twenty-five years..... More

Adelaide, Printed by Hussey & Gillingham, [1890s]. All plate leaves depict one or more illustrations from photographs, against a watercolour pictorial background with calligraphic titles. There is only one full-page plate proper. Not in Trove, but recorded there are what appear to be later versions of a similar item, 'Gall's..... More

'The Bombing of Wewak was a series of air raids by the USAAF Fifth Air Force, on 17-21 August 1943, against the major air base of the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force on the mainland of New Guinea, at Wewak. The four raids, over a five-day period, represented a decisive..... More

London, Panora Limited, September 1918. 'In the pre-war period, an officer or NCO seeking to become an instructor would have attended a six-week preliminary course at a Command gymnasium followed by an intensive and wide-ranging four-month course ... at the HQ School Aldershot; this in turn was followed by a...... More

Adelaide, Gresham Studio, [1890s]. 'The South Australian Register' (2 November 1891) featured a review of the recently published biography of George Fife Angas by Edwin Hodder (London, Hodder and Stoughton). It is described as having an 'etched portrait by H. Manesse'. We have identified several variant portraits used as the..... More

London, Home & Van Thal Ltd., 1946. Photographic studies of the dancer Robert Helpmann by Anthony Gordon; introduction by Ninette de Valois. More

No pertinent details - when, where and why the photograph was taken, and by whom - are known, and the later pencilling on the verso (a price and what seems to be a name) adds nothing. From first principles, we suggest the 1860s, 'somewhere in England', a training exercise, and..... More

This photograph is reproduced in 'The Home of the Blizzard' (Volume 1, page 102), with the caption 'Adelie Land. Weddell seals asleep on pancake ice'. Several pages earlier, Mawson writes: 'Seals and penguins on magic gondolas were the silent denizens of this dreamy Venice. In the soft glamour of the..... More

This print comes from the original 1915 Australian exhibition of Hurley photographs; this was a slightly larger version of the London exhibition held earlier in the same year. The label of the Fine Art Society, New Bond Street, London is on the verso of this print, with the full title..... More

The Radfords were born in Devon, emigrated to South Australia in October 1838, and lived in the Barossa Valley from the mid-1840s until their death. From the perceived ages of the subjects, these images would appear to date from the 1850s. Other (later) images of the Radfords are held in..... More

Many of the photographs appear to have been taken at Vickers' Brooklands factory near Weybridge, Surrey (the famous banked race track is visible in many images), and possibly also at the nearby Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, Hampshire. Nearly all are dated, ranging from 1937 to 1946. The gelatin silver prints..... More

The large format images (185 x 240 mm, on captioned mounts) include many prototypes and non-production models, such as the Bagshot (only this prototype was ever built, and flown a mere three times), the Bullfinch, the Type 138A High Altitude Monoplane, and the Type 143 light airliner. The condition is..... More