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Reclining Connected Forms

This 1969 bronze sculpture is one of the few pieces by the renowned British artist to be found in Australia.

public art

1960s, late twentieth century
Refugees

In general refugees have enriched and diversified South Australia’s religions, universities and schools, food, the arts, newspapers, clubs and sports.

1830s, 1840s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, early twentieth century, early twenty–first century, late nineteenth century, mid twentieth century
River Torrens

The River Torrens has dominated the development of Adelaide and its metropolis, often in subtle or little recognised ways

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010, 2010s
Ronald Max’y Sharpe

Ronald Sharpe was born at Goodwood, South Australia, on 11th March 1905, the son of chargeman John Crutchfield Sharpe and…

1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Sailors’ Aid Societies (Port Adelaide)

Sailors’ aid societies were first established at Port Adelaide in the 1860s to provide accommodation, entertainment, moral guidance and religious instruction to…

1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010, 2010s
Serbians in South Australia

Serbians migrated to South Australia from the 1940s – 1990s to escape various forms of prosecution and have since established…

migration, Serbian

1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1990s, early twentieth century, Second World War
Sir Archibald Grenfell Price, CMG

Archibald Grenfell Price was born at ‘Tutuila’, near Crafers in the Adelaide hills, on 28th January 1892, the son of…

1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Sir Donald Bradman

Donald George (Don) Bradman (1908–2001) was worshipped as the most dominant batsman in cricket history and an Australian hero from…

1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Sir Hans Heysen, OBE

Wilhelm Ernst Hans Franz Heysen was born in Hamburg, Germany, on 8th October 1877, the son of Louis Heinrich Wilhelm…

1960s, early twentieth century, mid twentieth century
Sir Henry Newland, CBE, DSO

Henry Simpson Newland was born at Kensington, South Australia, on 24th November 1873, the son of pastoralist Simpson Newland of…

1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s
Sir John Cleland, CBE

John Burton Cleland was born in Norwood, South Australia, on 22nd June 1878, the son of medical practitioner William Lennox…

1890s, 1900-1910, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Sir Kenneth Wills, KBE, MC

Kenneth Agnew Wills was born in Adelaide on 3rd March 1896. His father, R.J.H. Wills, was a partner in the…

1890s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Sir Mark Oliphant bust

The bust of Sir Mark Oliphant on North Terrace honours an eminent scientist and the state’s first South Australian-born governor.

1900-1910, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Second World War
Sir Mellis Napier bust

The bronze bust of Sir Mellis Napier, sculpted by eminent South Australian artist John Dowie, commemorates his distinguished community service,…

bust

bust, sculpture

1880s, 1890s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Sir Mellis Napier, KCMG

Thomas John Mellis Napier was born at Dunbar, Scotland, on 24th October 1882, the son of medical practitioner Alexander Disney…

1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Sir Thomas Playford

Thomas Playford was Premier of South Australia from 1938 to 1965. He led his party to victory in eight successive…

1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
Sir William Mitchell, KCMG

William Mitchell was born in Inveravon, Scotland, in March 1861, the son of hill-farmer Peter Mitchell and his wife Margaret…

1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s
Smithfield Migrant Hostel

Smithfield, when the migrant hostel opened, was an isolated rural area. It took about an hour by train to get…

migrant hostel

1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
South Terrace

Mansions at one end and cottages at the other, with businesses, welfare, medical and educational institutions in between, all overlooking…

City & Town Streets

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 2000-2010
Steam Tug Yelta

Once an integral component of Port Adelaide’s fleet of working vessels, this sole-surviving example of an operational South Australian steam tug…

1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010, 2010s
Sym Choon Collection

A collection of objects related to the Sym Choon family, reflecting their lives as first generation Australians with Chinese heritage.

1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
Sym Choon Shops

In 1925/26 Thomas Sym Choon bought his four children a shop each.

1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
Three Rivers Fountain

The Three Rivers fountain in Victoria Square commemorates the Royal Visit in 1963

fountain

fountain, heron, ibis, river, sculpture, swan

1960s, 2010s
Tom Kruse

Esmond Gerald ‘Tom’ Kruse was an outback transport operator. Tom began driving the Birdsville Track Mail Run for Harry Ding…

1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1980s, 1990s
United Trades and Labor Council

Carpenters, tailors, bakers, carriers, cordwainers and coachmakers had formed unions within ten years of European settlement of South Australia, and…

employment, industry, workers’ rights, workplace

1890s, 1910s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s
Venere di Canova

A startled Venus caused consternation as Adelaide’s first public statue in 1892

statue

sculpture, venus

1850s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1920s, 1930s, 1960s
Victor Richardson Gates

An outstanding all-round sportsman was provided with the rare honour of being memorialised during his lifetime

entrance gates

cricketer, football, gates, relief, sculptor

1920s, 1930s, 1960s, early twenty–first century
Victor York Richardson, OBE

Vic Richardson remains South Australia’s greatest all-round sportsman. Educated at Kyre (now Scotch) College, he became an entertaining personality and…

1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s
WAB, ACWW and FWIC badges

This group of badges is a memento of Isla Shilton’s extensive involvement in the Women’s Agricultural Bureau and with the Associated Country Women of…

1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s
Walter Hervey Bagot

Walter Hervey Bagot was born at North Adelaide on 17th March 1880, the son of pastoralist John Bagot and his…

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

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Matthew Flinders Memorial

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A statue to honour Matthew Flinders, the first explorer to circumnavigate Australia, was a long time coming in Adelaide

Port Adelaide Lighthouse

Port Adelaide Lighthouse

Installed in the 1860s as Port Adelaide’s first fixed navigational beacon, and later used at South Neptune Island, the Port Adelaide Lighthouse today functions as an iconic museum display in the heart of the Port.

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