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South Australia (state)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 123 Collections and/or Records:

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[First word illegible] congregation outside 'church', S.A. [i.e. South Australia], 1910 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011DDD(LS)/105
Scope and Contents From the Series:

A series of slides showing the CCCS's work among rural communities in Australia.

Dates: 1910 - 1930
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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General Post Office and Telegraph Station, Adelaide, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082A/4
Scope and Contents

260 x 200 mm. A view of the Post Office building from Victoria Square. The Post Office was begun in 1867, Prince Alfred laying the foundation stone during his tour of Australia, and completed in 1872. The tower behind the Post Office belongs to the Town Hall, built in 1866. Both buildings were designed by the Architectural partnership of E.W. Wright and E.J. Woods.

Dates: 1890
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Glimpse of Maternity Ward, BCA [i.e. Bush Church Aid] Hospital, Penong, 1910 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011DDD(LS)/101
Scope and Contents From the Series:

A series of slides showing the CCCS's work among rural communities in Australia.

Dates: 1910 - 1930
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Glimpse of Women's Ward, BCA [i.e. Bush Church Aid] Hospital, Penong, S.A [i.e. South Australia], 1910 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011DDD(LS)/100
Scope and Contents From the Series:

A series of slides showing the CCCS's work among rural communities in Australia.

Dates: 1910 - 1930
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

Gold rush watercolours

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 391
Scope and Contents These small painted figures, animals and scenes illustrating the Australian gold rushes were created by an unknown artist. The donor W.H. Carter recorded in a letter filed with the collection, 'They were given to my mother in Adelaide at the time of an early gold-rush by a local artist about the year 1851.’ They may be the work of George Hamilton (1812-1883), who emigrated to Australia from England in 1839 and became a clerk in the South Australian Treasury in 1848, an inspector of mounted...
Dates: 1851
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Gorge in the Mt Lofty Ranges], 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/170
Scope and Contents

216 x 167 mm. A view looking along a gorge towards the plain on which Adelaide lies.

Dates: 1870 - 1880
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Government Farm, near Adelaide, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082A/29
Scope and Contents

260 x 205 mm. A view across wooded hills, with little evidence of cultivation.

Dates: 1890
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Government House, Government Farm., 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082A/30
Scope and Contents

255 x 195 mm. View of a single-storey stone built house, with farm buildings behind and to the right.

Dates: 1890
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Government House, Marble Hill, Near Adelaide, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082A/31
Scope and Contents

235 x 170 mm. Showing a solidly built house of different coloured stone, with a tower at one corner. Designed by William McMinn (1844-84), it was built as the Summer Residence for the Governor of South Australia.

Dates: 1890
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Government Printing Office, Adelaide, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082A/10
Scope and Contents

260 x 200 mm. A three-quarter front view of the printing office, an imposing three-floor bluestone building. With a pony trap standing in front of the building.

Dates: 1890
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Group at Holder Pumping Station, 1892

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082B/12
Scope and Contents

270 x 215 mm. Showing a posed group of men, women and children, in formal clothes, standing in front of the steam engine of the pumping station, which is protected by a corrugated iron roof. With a pipeline above the group. Members of the group are slightly out of focus.

Dates: 1892
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Group at Lake Bonney, 1892

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082B/14
Scope and Contents

275 x 220 mm. A group of men and women posed in front of the lake, which lies about 15 miles west of Renmark. Most of the people pictured can also be identified in the group in Y3082B/12.

Dates: 1892
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Group of Natives in Exhibition Grounds, Adelaide , 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082A/1
Scope and Contents

265 x 200 mm. Showing a group of about 60 Aboriginal Australians in European dress. There is a policeman standing to the left.

Dates: 1890
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Guidance on Royal Visit to South Australia, 1954

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 320/1/28
Scope and Contents

Notes providing guidance with regard to protocol during the Royal Visit.

Dates: 1954
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Highlights of Adelaide, 1954

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 320/1/30
Scope and Contents

A guide to Adelaide prepared for Royal Visit Year.

Dates: 1954
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Holder: showing class of Permanent Homes, 1892

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082B/13
Scope and Contents

270 x 215 mm. A view of small stone houses in the background, with a field of unidentified plants in front. For the degree of settlement achieved, the photograph may be compared to that of Ramco in Y3082B/2.

Dates: 1892
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Home for Incurables, Fullarton, near Adelaide, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082A/20
Scope and Contents

260 x 200 mm. A view showing a single storey building with a corrugated iron roof and a verandah running along its length.

Dates: 1890
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Invitation to Royal Music Festival, 1954

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 320/2/4/6
Scope and Contents

A blank invitation from the Government of South Australia to the festival at the Wayville Oval, 24 March 1954.

Dates: 1954
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Invitation to Women's Parliamentary Reception, 1954

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 320/2/4/4
Scope and Contents

A blank invitation from the Government of South Australia to the Royal Reception at Parliament House, 23 March 1954.

Dates: 1954
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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King William Street, Adelaide, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/171
Scope and Contents

216 x 166 mm. A view looking down William Street, Adelaide’s main thoroughfare, with horse cabs lined up in the centre of the street and the towers of the Post Office and the Town Hall visible on the skyline.

Dates: 1870 - 1880
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Kingston Pumping Station., 1892

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082B/11
Scope and Contents

270 x 220 mm. A similar photograph to Y3082B/3, with settlers posed in front of the pumping station, and a pipeline running up the hill behind them. This print shows a pumping station nearer to completion than Y3082B/3.

Dates: 1892
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Lake, Zoological Gardens, Adelaide, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082A/40
Scope and Contents

260 x 205 mm. A view across the lake, with a small fountain in the centre and animal houses beyond. A rockery behind the lake has a Union Jack upon which is written ‘Mount Wallaby’.

Dates: 1890
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Large Viaduct, Adelaide and Melbourne railway, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082A/23
Scope and Contents

260 x 200 mm. A view from above showing a viaduct crossing a gully.

Dates: 1890
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letters to H.C.E. Childers, 1878 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 37/18/27-64
Scope and Contents Letters to Childers from Bank of S. Australia (27), Sir George Bowen, Gov. of Victoria (28-9), Charles Heneage, 1878-80 (30-57, with draft replies); enclosed are copy letters from Rowland Childers and Charles Heneage to Sir George Verden and from Sir George to Rowland, 1879 (32-6), letters from Childers to Rowland, 1878 (45), Rowland to Heneage, 1878, J.H. Angus to Heneage, with reply, 1878 (50-1), William H. Charnock to Rowland Childers (52), Rowland to H.C.E. Childers, 1880 (55); letters...
Dates: 1878 - 1880
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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List of minerals discovered in South Australia, 1845

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/22
Scope and Contents 'Classified list of minerals discovered in the Province of South Australia to the close of the year 1844. Showing the class, family and species to which each specimen belongs, with its description and locality. To which is subjoined a summary of the geology of the located districts'. The geological summary is contained in the last two pages. A pencil note above the heading records 'Copy of this list given to the Surveyor-General [E.C. Frome] 11 February 1845'. On the back in another...
Dates: 1845
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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