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260 x 190 mm. A front view of the large stone building, with white dressed stone decorations, and large central tower. Probably designed by William Bennett Hayes, and now demolished. The building stood in what is now the eastern part of the Botanic Gardens.

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Album of mostly 80 x 54 mm prints. There is a brief list describing items 1-98, which document the trip from Southampton to South Africa, travel in South Africa, and the visit to Southern Rhodesia. Many photos do not appear in the exact numerical order given in the listing. The rest of the images are uncaptioned, but their general locations have been identified by reference to the diary RCMS 353/1.

Scope and Contents A large folio volume of pasted in satirical cartoons relating to South Australia. The cartoons are titled at the top 'Portonian', and have captions below the image. Many of the pictures are numbered and dated. The volume includes a satirical annual diary with a cartoon in the centre, 4 December 1875, and a plan of the city of Adelaide 'compiled and published by the proprietors, Frearson and Brother, Adelaide, 1874', which was a supplement to the 'Portonian', 13 March 1875. The volume is...

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215 x 167 mm. A view looking along William Street with the Advertiser office in the foreground and the Post office behind. The foundation stone of the Post Office was laid by the Duke of Edinburgh in 1867 and the building was completed in 1872.

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260 x 195 mm. A front view of the school, with pupils standing in front. The school was opened in 1878, and named after Prince Alfred (later Duke of Edinburgh), who visited Adelaide in 1867.

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The procedure for the Women's Parliamentary Reception and Parliamentary Banquet at Parliament House, Adelaide, 23 March 1954, in honour of the Royal Visitors.

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260 x 200 mm. A three-quarters front view of the single-storey stone building, built in the Gothic style with a central fleche. The school is situated on the South-East corner of Grote Street and Morphett Street, and was built in 1874. With school children standing outside the gate.

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260 x 200 mm. A view of the station from the line, showing several locomotives, with signals and sidings. Adelaide’s first railway station was built in 1856, but that building was incorporated into the larger station seen here in about 1876.

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260 x 200 mm. A view of the pool, with the rockery to the right. A flamingo stands in the water.

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260 x 200 mm. A view of South Adelaide from north of the River Torrens. In the foreground is the Adelaide Oval where a game of football is in progress. The river can be seen beyond the Oval, and beyond the river on the left the Museum and Public Library. On the skyline at the right are the towers of the Post Office and the Town Hall.

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'Summary of the report on the Company's farm lands at 31 December 1879', 21 lithographed manuscript pages with a map. The report describes various plots with a view to housing or mining development within 10, 20, and 50 miles of Adelaide. The map includes circles indicating these distances.

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265 x 200 mm. A front view of the school buildings, with pupils standing outside. Designed by Henry Stuckley (1821-1851), it was completed after his death is about 1854.

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260 x 200 mm. A front view of the court house. A building in rather heavy classical style standing in Victoria Square, it was erected in 1869 for the Local and Insolvency Courts and has been used as the Supreme Court since 1873.

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350 x 250 mm. No print.

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260 x 205 mm. A view of a portion of the lake, with a metal girder bridge, and railway stock in the background. A man-made lake, it was opened in 1881 to the public on the same day as the Adelaide Exhibition.

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265 x 205 mm. A view towards the Rotunda, in front of which stands a man and two emus (blurred through movement). The Zoological Society was founded in 1878, originally as an acclimatization garden for the introduction of stock and fish. It was opened as a zoo in May 1883.

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Showing passengers boarding.

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260 x 205 mm. A three-quarter front view of the school buildings, with pupils grouped in front. The building is in Jeffcott Street, and was erected by Thomas Frost (1826-1910).

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217 x 167 mm. A view of the Post Office from Victoria Square, with trees and shrubs in the foreground.