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‘Afghan’ jacket

The jacket was given to Mr Frederick Budge of Farina, South Australia, by a Muslim (‘Afghan’) trader he knew who…

1870s, 1880s, 1890s
Abraham Tobias Boas

Abraham Boas was born on 25th November 1842 in Amsterdam, Holland, the son of Rabbi Tobias Boas and Eva Salomon…

1860s, 1870s, 1890s, 1920s
Adelaide 1875

Adelaide: Supplement to the Australasian Sketcher. Courtesy of the State Library of South Australia, SLSA: B1452 The ‘bird’s eye’ view of Adelaide…

aerial view

1870s
Adelaide 1876

Adelaide: supplement to the Illustrated Sydney News; ‘A Capital View of the City of Adelaide’. Image courtesy of the State Library…

aerial view

1870s
Adelaide City Council

The Adelaide City Council has a history spanning over 170 years of service to its citizens.

council

1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010, 2010s
Adelaide Gaol

One of South Australia’s earliest buildings and home to over 300 000 people from 1841 to 1988, Adelaide Gaol is one…

1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
Adelaide General Post Office

The classically styled freestone Adelaide General Post Office housed both the post and telegraph offices which connected South Australia with…

public history building

1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010, 2010s
Adelaide Steamship Company

The Adelaide Steamship Company was Australia’s largest shipping company and one of South Australia’s most successful business ventures.

1870s, 1880s, 1890s, early twentieth century, late twentieth century, mid twentieth century
Agriculture

South Australian agriculture began in 1837 with activity in Adelaide Plains, the Fleurieu Peninsula, Barossa Valley and Clare.

1830s, 1840s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s
Albert Bridge

Albert Bridge is a cast-iron bridge across the River Torrens at Frome Road, built in 1879.

1870s
Alexander Tolmer

By any account, Alexander Tolmer was a colourful character whose thirst for action and adventure was matched only by his…

1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s
Alfred Muller Simpson

Like his father before him, Alfred Muller Simpson began his working life as a tinsmith. During his apprenticeship in his…

1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s
Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick’s father was Patrick Alexander (also known as Alexander) Kirkpatrick and his grandfather was Robert Kirkpatrick, a farmer from Northern…

1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910
Anglican Church

An important shaper of South Australian society, particularly in religious circles, education, welfare, the professions and politics.

religious, institution, Christian

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010, 2010s
Augustus Short

Augustus Short (1802–83) was South Australia’s first Anglican bishop. Born in Devon, he was educated at Westminster School, London, and…

1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s
Ayers House

The last mansion of its era on the south side of North Terrace

1870s
B Seppelt & Sons

At the height of its activity in the 1890s, the wine company of B Seppelt & Sons was the largest in…

1820s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1930s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s
Boarding Out Society

The origins of foster care for disadvantaged children

1860s, 1870s, 1880s
Botanic Hotel and Chambers

This land was originally inhabited by Mr W Harcus in the 1860s, specifically where the Botanic Hotel now stands. The…

1860s, 1870s, 1880s
Botanic Park

Botanic Park has blossomed as a place for informal family gatherings and a venue for public events

park

1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010, 2010s, 2020s, Aboriginal Country pre-contact
British Hotel (Port Adelaide)

Port Adelaide’s British Hotel is the longest continuously licensed hostelry in the Port, and also the only remaining pub on…

1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010, 2010s
Brown Street

Brown Street, running from South Terrace to Grote Street, morphed into Morphett Street in 1967 but the area retains its out-of-the-way feel

City & Town Streets

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, early twenty–first century
Catherine Helen Spence

In October 1905, at a public gathering in Adelaide to celebrate Catherine Spence’s eightieth birthday, South Australia’s Chief Justice, Sir…

1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910
Catherine Helen Spence statue

The powerful sculpture of Catherine Helen Spence in Light Square, Adelaide celebrates the life and work of a formidable South…

bronze statue

author, books, children, journalist, preacher, welfare, writing

1850s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1920s, 1980s
Charles Cameron Kingston Memorial

A remarkable and feisty South Australian attorney-general and premier, a father of federation and the first Australian Minster for Trade and…

statue

class, divorce, duel, football, work

1850s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s
Charles Cameron Kingston PC QC

Privy Councillor and Queen’s Counsel, Premier of South Australia from 1893 to 1899 and member of the first Commonwealth ministry…

1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910
Colonel William Light Grave and Monument

Colonel William Light’s grave remains in Light Square, while Light’s Monument there has been replaced and embellished over time

monuments and memorials

grave, linguist, map, musician, painter, plan, sailor, soldier, survey, surveyor

1830s, 1840s, 1870s, 1890s, 1900-1910
Crown and Anchor Hotel

The current hotspot for alternative and grunge music has a colourful criminal history

1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Customs Houses of Port Adelaide

From its earliest days, the South Australian government applied customs duty (charges levied on all foreign and domestic imported goods)…

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
David Fowler

David Fowler was representative of a generation of nineteenth-century South Australian business leaders who helped to develop the economic and…

1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s

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