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
Furreedpore (Faridpur), formerly in East Bengal, India (now Bangladesh), has important Australian connections, exemplified by this photograph. Silas Mead (1834-1909), a Baptist minister, emigrated to South Australia in July 1861; 'he preached at chapels in Adelaide and North Adelaide. Regular services began at White's Rooms and within a month a...... More
Adelaide, Rigby Ltd., 1933. 'The Book has been written for the new regime of cricket; the batter, bruise and bust cricket, which has been thrust upon us. This travesty of an erstwhile noble sport demands new techniques to master it ... We find after years of research that all previous..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1893. The journal was originally published with two maps; they are basically identical, but one has added chromolithographic geological features, and a key. This second map is not offered here. McLaren 12614 (the dimensions for the maps are larger than those we have recorded here, because McLaren..... More
Land Grant Number 639 is for 'Eighty-two acres numbered "903" in the Provincial Survey', purchased by 'James Warland and George Warland of Adelaide' for the sum of £2. Elizabeth Warburton, in 'The Paddocks Beneath. A History of Burnside from the Beginning' (1981), makes short work of locating the land in..... More
Adelaide, 'published by Superintendent of Club', 1872. The name of the anonymous author, a cousin of the somewhat more famous Victor, is added in pencil on the title page. Ferguson 10643 (recording only 'blue morocco cloth boards'). 'By 1866 a ravaging northern drought accelerated the need to succour bush workers..... More
The first volume contains eleven Parliamentary Papers (in all, 98 pages plus 7 plans or charts) plus a printed broadside and 11 manuscript documents totalling 19 pages. The documents, all dated 1878, include a proof copy of the Report of the Board of Advice (one page foolscap folio, signed in..... More
Adelaide, William Kyffin Thomas, 1861. The newspaper came out Monday to Saturday, and accordingly it contains a never-ending, ever-changing fascinating miscellany of local, national and international news, with the large parochial components being far and away the most instructive and entertaining. The issues for this year are especially rich in..... More
Adelaide, William Kyffin Thomas, 1860. The newspaper came out Monday to Saturday, and accordingly it contains a never-ending, ever-changing fascinating miscellany of local, national and international news, with the large parochial components being far and away the most instructive and entertaining. The issues for the second half of this year..... More
Melbourne, Government Printer, 1858. Victorian Parliamentary Paper Number A3 of 1858 (a reprint of South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 119 of 1858). This is an account of Stuart's first independent expedition; he had previously travelled with Sturt's 1844-45 expedition into Central Australia. The party of three 'started out from the..... More
Buckland Park is a pastoral property near Port Gawler, South Australia. George Frederick Ernest Albert, The Duke of Cornwall and York and later King George V (1865-1936) was the second eldest son of King Edward VII, who ascended the throne on Queen Victoria's death in January 1901. With the first..... More