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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
Dame Roma Mitchell Statue

Dame Roma Mitchell is depicted surrounded by her books looking relaxed and at home on North Terrace.

1990s
Dame Roma Mitchell, AC, DBE, CVO, QC

Roma Flinders Mitchell was born in Adelaide, South Australia, on 2nd October 1913, the daughter of Harold Flinders Mitchell and…

1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010
Dame Ruby Litchfield, DBE

Dame Ruby Litchfield epitomised the saying that if you want something done, ask a busy person. She was the first…

2000-2010, late twentieth century, mid twentieth century
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 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
David Shearer

David Shearer dedicated his life to the manufacture of farm machinery but is usually remembered for the steam car that…

1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s
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
Devotional Card

This devotional card, written by Queen Adelaide in 1841, quotes Psalms 100:5

1840s
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 Charles George Everard

Charles Everard, accompanied by his wife Catherine and their four children, set sail from England on the Africaine on 28…

1830s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s
Dr John Dowie AM bust

Different, but a good likeness

bust

bust, sculpture

2010s
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
Dr Ruby Davy

Ruby Claudia Emily Davy, a prodigiously talented child born to musical parents in Salisbury, South Australia, in 1883, was one…

early twentieth century, late nineteenth century, mid twentieth century
Dual

Dual is the first of many works by Greg Johns where the circle plays a central role.

public art

1970s, late twentieth century
Duncan Case

George Ian Ogilvie Duncan, a lecturer in law at the University of Adelaide, drowned on 10 May after being thrown…

1970s, 1980s, 1990s
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
Duryea Panorama

Panorama of Adelaide, 1865. Photographer: Townsend Duryea. Courtesy of the State Library of South Australia, SLSA: B5099 The Duryea Panorama is a…

panoramic view

photograph, photography

1860s
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
East-End Market Hotel

Although this historic hotel has been nearly prevented from opening because of rival hotel owners, and continuing business due to…

1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1990s, 2000-2010
Edmund William Wright

Edmund William Wright was born on 4th April 1824 near London, England, the son of Stephen Wright, who is said…

1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s
Edmund Wright House

Edmund Wright House was built in 1878 as the headquarters of the Bank of South Australia.

building, historic site

1870s, 1970s
Edward John Eyre

Edward John Eyre (1815–1901) was English-born and educated for a military career but decided to travel to Australia instead. Arriving…

early nineteenth century, mid nineteenth century
Elder Family

Elder Family of Scots merchants and ship owners saw the infant South Australia as an opportunity to expand their business…

exploration, industry, pastoralism

1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s
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

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‘Great Fires’ of Port Adelaide

‘Great Fires’ of Port Adelaide

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19th Century Childbirth

19th Century Childbirth

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Aboriginal Land Rights

Aboriginal Land Rights

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Afghans

Afghans

A transcontinental train, ‘The Ghan’, now commemorates the Afghan cameleers and their beasts who helped to pioneer the Outback

Bicycles

Bicycles

From ‘boneshakers’ to penny-farthings to mountain bikes, bicycles have certainly changed since the 1860s.

Copper Industry

Copper Industry

Copper brought unexpected wealth to the new colony and was an economic mainstay for 70 years, with a resurgence since the 1980s at Olympic Dam

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