Sydney, W.A. Gullick, Government Printer, 1908. The broad coverage of the State comprises captioned images of public buildings (12) and street scenes (8) of Sydney; ports and harbours (6, including 3 of Newcastle); north coast farms (8); mines and other industries (10); timber (7); livestock (8); agriculture (6); and leisure..... More

The four items in the presentation are displayed together behind glass in a heavy period-style moulded wooden frame (external dimensions 845 × 1200 mm). They are behind individual windows cut in one large mat: the display comprises a very large full-length portrait photograph of Hayes in uniform (573 × 269..... More

This very small and relatively unknown unit, formed in February 1915, was diverted to Gallipoli and put under the control of the British Army. On 7 August, during the August Offensive, the Bridging Train went ashore at Suvla Bay and built a number of essential piers. The unit remained at..... 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

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

The gloss-paper prints are each approximately 150 × 200 mm. The three streetscapes have the title and studio credited in the negative. The first two items are slightly foxed, and there is a tiny hole in the sky in the first one; the gloss surface is lightly scuffed; overall, the..... 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

The albumen paper photograph (94 × 61 mm) is mounted on the printed card (104 × 63 mm) of The Adelaide Photographic Company. There is an example of the same image in the State Library of NSW (a gift from a family member, John Howard Johnson); it is dated January..... 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

Adelaide, Dimond Studios, 150 Rundle Street, [1921]. The inaugural Australian National Football Carnival, an interstate competition, was held in Melbourne in August 1908. 'It was known at the time as the Jubilee Australasian Football Carnival because it was designed to commemorate 50 years of Australian rules football' (Wikipedia). The carnival..... More