South Australia. Containing Hints to Emigrants; Proceedings of the South Australian Company; a Variety of Useful and Authentic Information ...
London, Robert Tyas, 1838 (second edition, 'considerably augmented')/ 1837. More
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A glass paperweight featuring a photographic portrait of Fanny, an Indigenous Australian woman
The portrait is interesting by any measure. Fanny is wearing an ankle-length skirt, blouse, and a sun hat held in place with a large spotted scarf knotted under her chin. She is standing in what appears to be a traditional South Australian back yard (the high corrugated-iron fence is a...... More
A photograph of the departure, from the Barossa Valley, of the first Lutheran missionaries to Lake Killalpaninna in northern South Australia
The party consisted of Missionaries Johann Goessling and Ernst Homann, and two lay-helpers, Hermann Vogelsang and Johann Jacob. They set out from Langmeil [Tanunda] church on Tuesday 9 October 1866 with two large covered wagons and seven horses. This image, along with the full details of the epic journey and..... More
Manners and Customs of the Aborigines of the Encounter Bay Tribe, South Australia
Adelaide, 'printed and published for Government, by George Dehane', 1846. Heinrich Edward August Meyer was a Lutheran missionary who arrived in Australia in 1840, and spent just over two years living with the Raminyeri tribe of the Encounter Bay area before publishing in 1843 'the first grammar and vocabulary on..... More
Morning. Owned and edited by Paris Nesbit QC. Volume 1, Number 1, 29 August 1900 to Number 18, 26 December 1900. [Bound with] Century (with which is incorporated 'Morning'), Volume 1, Number 19, 2 January 1901 to Volume 2, Number 32, 5 June 1901
Adelaide, Paris Nesbit (to Number 15), then John Newton Wood, 1900 and 1901. 'The small religious newspaper "Morning" was founded in 1900 by the gifted but unbalanced lawyer, Paris Nesbit. The newspaper was initially used largely as a vehicle for his personal views on religion and Adelaide society. Nesbit unashamedly..... More
Exhibition of Photography by E. Robertson ARPS. Sponsored by the Adelaide Camera Club [cover title]
Adelaide, Adelaide Camera Club, 1948. The exhibition of work by the Adelaide photographer Eric Robertson (1889-1955) ran from 17-27 February 1948. Offered together with an album (approximately 190 × 235 mm) containing related photographs: a large portrait of Robinson, 14 interesting snapshots of scenes at the exhibition, six examples of..... More
Province of South Australia. Land Grant. Town Section No. 558 to O. Gilles Esq. [A printed document, with manuscript insertions]
The grant is for 'All that One Acre Section of Town Land numbered "558" in the Provincial Survey', purchased by none other than the Treasurer himself! Osmond Gilles (1788-1866) was an extremely interesting character by any account (not least, the one in the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'): 'Of Huguenot descent..... More
'Proposed Club House at Tanunda - for the Club Committee' [an original large hand-coloured architectural drawing]
Adelaide, English & Soward, Architects, Cowra Chambers, Grenfell Street, 1907. The main drawings, in black ink and up to six different watercolours, comprise the Front Elevation (West), South Elevation, Ground Plan, Back Elevation, and Cellar; there are also four sections and a number of minor details. It has been signed..... More
Outlines of a Grammar, Vocabulary, and Phraseology, of the Aboriginal Language of South Australia, spoken by the Natives in and for some distance around Adelaide
Adelaide, 'Published by the Authors at the native location' [and printed by Robert Thomas and Co., Hindley Street, Adelaide], 1840. A rare and important early Adelaide publication, and among the earliest and extensive works of its kind; the vocabulary and phraseology run to 76 pages. Ferguson 3102 (with slight variations..... More
A full-length portrait in military uniform, signed as Edward, Prince of Wales
HRH the Prince of Wales spent a week in Adelaide in mid-July 1920, during a three-month visit to Australia. The photograph shows him standing in front of Parliament House, Adelaide. He has inscribed the bottom corner 'Sincerely Yours | Edward P.' George Lionel Marchant (1882-1958) ran a successful studio in..... More
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