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Daniel Moriarty

Daniel Moriarty was born in Adelaide, South Australia, on 20th August 1895, the son of council worker and milk-roundsman Daniel…

1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
Dardanelles Memorial

The first Anzac memorial was once an obelisk in a grove of wattles

War Memorial

aviation, Gallipoli, wattle

1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1960s, 2000-2010, 2010s, First World War
David Unaipon

David Unaipon was born on 28th September 1872 at Point McLeay Mission, South Australia, the son of evangelist James Ngunaitponi,…

1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s
Donald Allan Dunstan AC QC

Don Dunstan was born in Suva, Fiji, on 21st September 1926, the son of Francis Vivian Dunstan, a manager for…

1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, late twentieth century
Doris Taylor, MBE

Doris Irene Taylor was born in Norwood, South Australia, on 25th July 1901, the daughter of bricklayer Thomas Simpkin Taylor…

1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s
Dr John Stuart Dowie AM

John Dowie is best known for his sculpture, which is to be found in almost every Australian capital city. It…

1910s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010
Dunmoochin

Dunmoochin, built around 1858, was the home of Irish emigrants John and Honora Griffin and their three children. It is…

1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s
East End Market

The East End Market was Adelaide’s first formal fruit and vegetable market.

1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
East Parklands

Despite an inauspicious start as a dumping ground for waste, the East Parklands gradually developed as an attractive centre for recreation…

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

A street in an area of contrasts – the rich, the poor, society figures, outcasts, business, leisure, health and education are…

City & Town Streets

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Aboriginal Country pre-contact, early twenty–first century
Elder Hall

The simple exterior of Elder Hall belies the richness of its interior and the resonance of its organ

university hall

1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 2000-2010
Elder Park migrant hostel

Right in the centre of the city, Elder Park was a first stopping point for many new migrants arriving in…

accommodation, migrant hostel

1940s, 1950s, 1960s
Elder Park.

From dumping ground to pleasure gardens

park

1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010, 2020s
Eldred Norman

Eldred de Bracton Norman was born in Adelaide, South Australia, on 9th January 1914, the son of solicitor William Ashley…

1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s
Exhibition Building and Grounds

Now lost, the Exhibition Building once dominated North Terrace

exhibition hall

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s
Film

In October 1896, within one year of the Lumière brothers’ first public screening of film in Paris, the first public…

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

Packaging and remnats from firecrackers stocked at Gordon Sym Choon’s Union Street shop.

1960s, 1970s
Flexmore Hudson

Flexmore Hudson (1913-1988) was a poet who sacrificed much of his own creativity to promote the work of fellow writers.…

1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
Flinders Street

From ‘City of Churches’ to the ‘City of Cars’, Flinders Street reflects changes in Adelaide

City & Town Streets

1830s, 1840s, 1860s, 1870s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, early twenty–first century
Flower Day

Every year between 1938 and 1975 Adelaidians showed pride in their city by beautifying it with mass displays of flowers…

floral displays

Flower Day

1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Frank Tennyson Perry

Frank Tennyson Perry (1887–1965) was born in Gawler and educated at Prince Alfred College before joining his uncle’s engineering business…

1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s
Gepps Cross Migrant Hostel

At the time it operated, Gepps Cross hostel was called a ‘miniature suburb’. It was ‘purpose built’ using Nissen huts,…

migrant hostel

1950s, 1960s, mid twentieth century
Gerard and Goodman

Gerard and Goodman became Gerard Industries, or Clipsal, under Alfred Gerard and his son Geoff’s leadership

1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s
Giordano Collection

A collection held by the Migration Museum documenting the life of Antonio Giordano.

1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
Gladys Elphick MBE

Gladys Elphick was born in Adelaide on the 27th August 1904, the daughter of William Williams and Gertrude Adams, and…

1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
Gladys Ruth Gibson, CBE

Gladys Ruth Gibson was born in Adelaide, South Australia, on 29th December 1901, the daughter of James Ambrose Gibson and…

1960s, mid twentieth century
Glenelg Migrant Hostel

Officially referred to as Glenelg North, the hostel off Warren Avenue had the advantage of being close to existing suburbs…

migrant hostel

1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, mid twentieth century
Grote Street

Her Majesty’s Theatre and the Central Market continue to attract people to Grote Street

main street

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010, 2010s
Hart’s Mill Complex

An icon of Port Adelaide’s waterfront and the former home of South Australia’s longest continually operating flour mill, the Hart’s Mill…

1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 2000-2010, 2010s
Helen Mary Mayo, OBE

Helen Mary Mayo was born in Adelaide, South Australia, on 1st October 1878, the daughter of civil engineer George Gibbes…

1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s

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