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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 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 Hospital Row

A long-running dispute over a senior nursing appointment culminated with a medical officers’ strike and the temporary loss of medical…

Disputes, Hospital, Strikes

1890s, 1900-1910
Adelaide Laetitia Miethke, OBE

Adelaide Miethke was born on 8th June 1881 at Manoora, South Australia, the daughter of Prussian-born schoolteacher Carl Rudolph Miethke…

1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s
Adelaide Mosque

For over a century the Adelaide Mosque has provided a centre for prayer, community and celebration.

mosque

1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, early twenty–first century, late twentieth century, mid twentieth century
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
Adelaide Workers’ Homes Inc.

Providing housing for ‘industrious and deserving’ workers since 1899

philanthropic

aged, pensioner, philanthropy, worker

1890s, 1930s, 2010s
Adelaide Workmen’s Homes

Cottages built for workers through a bequest from businessman and philanthropist Sir Thomas Elder

terrace houses

1890s, 1900-1910, 1960s, 1970s
Adolf John Schulz

Adolf John Schulz was a significant early twentieth-century educationist who made important contributions to the development of the University Training…

1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
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
Archibald Watson

Archibald Watson (1849–1940), anatomist, eldest son of Sydney Watson, a wealthy Victorian pastoralist of Scots-Indian descent, became involved in ‘blackbirding’…

1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s
Arnold Edwin Victor Richardson, CMG

Arnold Edwin Victor Richardson was born in Thebarton, South Australia, on 12th September 1883, the son of ironfounder George Edwin…

1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s
August Wilhelm Pelzer

Landscape gardener and horticulturalist August Wilhelm Pelzer was appointed by the Adelaide City Council as ‘City Gardener’ in August 1899.…

1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s
Aurora Hotel

The Aurora Hotel – its demolition was a watershed in heritage conservation in Adelaide with statewide repercussions

1850s, 1890s, 1980s
Beaches

With their carnivals and regattas, bathing-beauty competitions, amusements, sea and sand, beaches were one of the key gathering places for South…

1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1920s, 1930s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Beehive Corner

Built in 1896, Beehive Corner with its Neo-Gothic facade has been a famous meeting spot since the early 20th century.

1840s, 1890s, 1990s
Bejah Dervish

Bejah Dervish, son of Dervish Bejah, was born in Baluchistan, India (now Pakistan), in about 1862. He served in the…

1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
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
Brookman Building

Developing technical education via a School of Mines and Industries leading to SAIT and then UniSA

university hall

1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910
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
Carclew

The youth arts centre Carclew was the starting point of McDouall Stuart’s expedition across Australia in 1861

1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010, 2010s
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

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