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Adelaide City Council

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

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Adelaide Fruit and Produce Exchange

The striking facade from Adelaide’s private produce market in the north east corner of the city remains a city landmark, though…

1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
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 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
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
Alexander Hore-Ruthven

1st Earl of Gowrie and one time Governor of South Australia

1900-1910, 1920s, 1930s
Alfred Hermann Traeger, OBE

In 1928 a friendly but self-effacing Adelaide man, Alf Traeger, revolutionized communications in the Australian outback by inventing the pedal…

1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
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
Allinga Menu

Menu produced for the Adelaide Steamship Co. Ltd. SS Allinga for Christmas 1901.

1900-1910
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
Art Gallery of South Australia

The classical building of the Art Gallery of South Australia, with its gracious colonnaded portico, is one of the cultural…

art galleries

1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010, 2010s
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
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
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
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
Captain Charles Sturt Memorial

Leaning forward and shielding his eyes from the sun, this bronze figure of Sturt looks over Victoria Square, not the…

statue

farewell, sculpture

1830s, 1840s, 1900-1910, 1910s
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

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Often considered as the ‘Heart of the Arts’ the Adelaide Festival Centre is home to an eclectic range of cultural performances. The building was erected in 1973 on the banks of the River Torrens in support of the unity of South Australia and Adelaide communities and the thriving culture of the arts. It was under the architectural vision of John Morphett and the profound enthusiasm of the general public that the Festival Centre was built.

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Coopers Brewery has survived where many others have failed; it is now the only Australian-owned major brewing company.

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