Dunfermline to Down Under. James and Elizabeth Adamson and Family. Early Pioneers of South Australia
Adelaide, [The Authors], 1994. More
Adelaide, [The Authors], 1994. More
Melbourne, Arbuckle, Waddell & Fawckner, 1901. More
Auckland, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1918. The last five sonnets are war poems: August 1914, Anzac, Glory, Peace, and Roses. More
Madison, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1974. After 'its annexation to the Indian Empire in 1852, Lower Burma (the Irrawaddy-Sittang delta region) was transformed from an underdeveloped and sparsely populated backwater of the Konbaung Empire into the world's largest exporter of rice. This work focuses on ... the growth of..... More
London, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1978. More
London, The Folio Society, 1967 [first thus]. Edited, and with an 11-page introduction, by John Hampden. More
'State Opera of South Australia - twice - achieved a goal sought by much larger and more prestigious companies: complete Wagner Ring cycles, with the Paris Theatre du Châtelet production in 1998 and the first Australian-built "Der Ring des Nibelungen" in 2004. The small State Opera of South Australia succeeded..... More
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
The carte de visite (an albumen paper photograph, 55 x 91 mm) was recently removed from an old album leaf and remounted on acid-free card; the title above was written in pencil on the verso of the image. The number '202' is pencilled on a fence-post in the foreground; in..... More
Adelaide, William Kyffin Thomas, Printer, 1876. We successfully tendered for a large quantity of duplicate pamphlets from the SLSA in 2001; this is one of them, which we are finally getting around to processing. More
[Adelaide], The author, 1995. Signed by the author. A personal history of the Adelaide Children's Hospital, now called the Women's and Children's Hospital. More
'The festival's poster was immortalised throughout Australia because of its iconic symbol of the flaming Hills Hoist' (Adelaide Festival website). More
The artistic director for the 1998 Festival was Robyn Archer. She was the 'first female Artistic Director and the first to be appointed to direct two consecutive festivals, in 1998 and 2000. Archer's program for the 20th Adelaide Festival was based on the themes of the sacred and the profane..... More
The poster was designed by the American 'outsider artist' Wayne Cunningham. More
'The 2004 Fringe Poster was designed by Nick Boyce.... firstly it fulfilled the brief; "atmosphere electric in a city transformed"' (Fringe Vault, online). More
Adelaide, Stump & Co., [1888]. Very little information about the Adelaide Football Club's Junior team appears in the local press of the day. A contemporary article linking the two appears in the 'The Evening Journal' on Friday 20 March 1885: 'The annual meeting of the Adelaide Football Club was held..... More
Adelaide, Harrison Weir, Government Printer, 1927. 'Railway Timetable' is misleading to a fault, with only nine pages devoted to the special Show Week excursion fares and timetable. for the rest, among numerous interesting period advertisements, there is a potted history of the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society of SA, the..... More
Melbourne, The Sears Studio, 1907. The Adelaide University Football Club was formed in 1906. 'During the three years 1908-1910, the Club existed in name only and, except for the annual match against Melbourne University, did not compete at all. This put the Club at a disadvantage in these matches as..... More
The Writers' Week takes place during the Adelaide Festival of Arts, held that year from March 3-19. More
Adelaide, Robert Kyffin Thomas, Printer, 1878; William Kyffin Thomas, Printer, 1879, 1880 and 1881; and Sands & McDougall, Printers, 1882. A consecutive run of five annual reports of the City of Adelaide, from the 27th to the 31st. Provenance: Alexander John Morison, Town Clerk of Adelaide, 1937-46, with his pencilled..... More
Adelaide, The Corporation of the City of Adelaide, 1928. The last 12 plates depict playgrounds: the Glover Playground, South Terrace (4); the Glover Playground, North Adelaide (3); the West Terrace Playground (3); and the East Terrace Playground (2). Clearly visible at the entrance to the charming North Adelaide precinct are..... More
Adelaide, Adelaide City Council, [1971]. Forty-three years later, they've just had another stab at it. More
Adelaide, E.S. Wigg & Son, [1880s]. The views are mainly street scenes and public buildings. Two of the plates are signed in the negative 'Sweet | Adelaide', and the balance of the photographs are almost certainly his work. Captain Samuel White Sweet (1825-1886) was a sea captain, surveyor and photographer..... More
Adelaide, Government Intelligence and Tourist Bureau, January 1927 (sixth edition). A quaint relic of a once-quaint town - after all, it is ninety-three years old! More
Adelaide, Government of South Australia, [circa 1965]. Number-stamped on the rear flyleaf '382' (of an unspecified upper limit). More