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National Motor Museum | Migration Museum | South Australian Maritime Museum
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Torrens Parade Ground, Victoria Drive
Adelaide
South Australia
5000
Australia
History SA researches, presents, collects and preserves the history of South Australia. It manages three museums and a range of historical collections, presents exhibitions and other public programs, and supports the work of community museums and local historical societies. The following museums are managed by History SA:
National Motor Museum; http://history.sa.gov.au/motor/motor.htm; email: motor@history.sa.gov.au
Migration Museum; http://history.sa.gov.au/migration/migration.htm; email: migration@history.sa.gov.au
South Australian Maritime Museum; http://history.sa.gov.au/maritime/maritime.htm; email: maritime@history.sa.gov.au
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History SA
http://maritime.historysa.com.au/collections/adelaide-steamship-company-collection
SAMM 7
Adsteam collection
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Adelaide Steamship Company
Gulf trip
Manoora
Manunda
Moonta
Morialta
Adelaide Steamship Company (ASC)
South Australian Maritime Museum
Artefacts
Cargo ships
Companies
furnishings
maritime history
model ships
Painting
Passenger ships
publicity
Record keeping
ships
steamships
Table setting
Technical drawing
Uniforms
water transport
Business records
Cargo ships
Passenger ships
steamships
Cargo ships
Documents
furnishings
model ships
paintings
Passenger ships
shipping industry
steamships
Uniforms
vessels (watercraft)
The Museum's Adsteam collection includes several hundred objects relating to the Adelaide Steamship Company between 1875 and 2000. Items include ship fittings, furnishings and badged crockery and cutlery, tickets, brochures, ships plans and passes, models and paintings of ships from the line, documents, wage books, ledgers, uniforms and furnishing from the company's offices.
This collection is the most comprehensive and extensive collection of objects relating to the Adelaide Steamship Company (ASC) in Australia. The collection helps document the founding of Australia's largest shipping companies in 1875 and one of South Australia's most successful business ventures, tracing its history through the themes of colonial enterprise, wartime and defence, work and culture, cruising and pleasure. Wool, wheat and minerals were making South Australia rich in the nineteenth century. Cargoes were booming but South Australian shipping was frustrated by small companies and inter-colonial rivalry. In 1875 a group of savvy pastoralists and businessmen took action. They aimed to control the transport of their goods and profit via an efficient passenger vessel service. For more than 100 years the company's fleet dominated Australian passenger and cargo shipping from Darwin to Townsville. The collection documents the day to day operation of this substantial enterprise and its significance to the South Australian economy and beyond. The Company employed nearly 800 people at sea and about ninety onshore. Office managers were expected to work as required to keep ships moving and profitable. While there was great loyalty from some workers, there were also major waterside disputes during the 1890s and 1920s. In wartime the company's vessels were requisitioned for global campaigns and in peace they offered Australians the journey of a lifetime. For over fifty years from 1910 to the 1960s the Gulf Trip on Adelaide Steamship vessels was a unique way to see South Australia. Popular with honeymooners and notorious party ships for young men, the seven-day trip cost £6 in 1939. Ships like the Minnipa, Manunda, Moonta and Morialta provided an opportunity for romance and gave many Australians the time of their lives. Luxury was also offered to passengers on the interstate trade. In 1933 Manoora showcased the latest in streamline design.
Some material included in this collection may be subject to copyright
South Australia
Port Adelaide, South Australia
1875
2000
SAMM 9
Binnacle collection
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binnacle
compass
Flinders bar
Kelvin
Compasses (Navigation equipment)
maritime history
Navigation
Mariners compasses
Navigational equipment
watercraft
Nautical equipment
navigational instruments
ships' compasses
South Australian Maritime Museum
This collection comprises forty-eight objects including complete binnacles and parts such as compasses, covers or bases. Binnacles are principally made of timber and brass because those materials do not affect the compass. However, one florid 19th century binnacle is made of cast iron and later examples from the 20th century have aluminium covers. Two are attached to the Museum's vessels but most have been kept from vessels that have been broken up.
The collection is significant in recording the history of navigation. Binnacles were used to house ships' compass. They kept the compass secure and placed it within sight of a seafarer standing at the ship's wheel. The compass was held on gimbals to keep it horizontal despite the rocking motion of the ship. The collection documents the response of binnacles to changes in ship building materials. Compasses could be distorted by even small amounts of metal on a timber sailing ship. In 1838 Britain's Astronomer Royal, Sir GB Airy, developed a method of neutralising the effects of the ship's magnetism by placing magnets and pieces of unmagnetised iron near the compass. Matthew Flinders (1774-1814) made important discoveries about deviation to ships' compasses and, in recognition of his work, the compensating bars around a magnetic compass are called Flinders' bars. The introduction of ships with iron frames and iron hulls increased the problem. In 1878 William Thomson, Baron Kelvin, redesigned binnacles to greatly improve measures to compensate for magnetic deviation and introduced the iron balls that sit on either side of binnacles from that period. They are named Kelvin's balls in his honour.
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South Australia
1883
1960
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SAMM 13
Bond Studios - Glass Negatives Collection
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AE Bond
Bond Studios
photographers
South Australian Maritime Museum
families
photographic studios
Photographs
glass negative
Photograph
Port Adelaide
studio portrait
Glass plate negatives
Portrait photographs
photographers
Photography
portraits
This collection comprises 1,500 glass negatives from Bond Studios in Port Adelaide. AE Bond was listed as a photographer in Commercial Road, Port Adelaide from 1901, although state collections include photographs credited to Bond that date back to 1867. The negatives are studio portraits of generations of Portonians. They capture individual rites of passage such as weddings, graduations, debuts, birthdays, and soldiers and sailors departing for war. Most of the negatives are labeled with surnames so it is possible to identify the subjects with further research.
The Bond Studio collection provides a charming, poignant and evolving snapshot of the Port Adelaide community. Even poor families could usually afford a single studio portrait and the collection provides insights into the demography of the Port. Subjects include children, sailors, soldiers, brides, mothers, dancing troupes and sports people, encompassing a spectrum of ages and ethnicities, vocations and recreations. The portraits document the changing fashions of the period and hint at international events such as World War and economic depression that impacted on the community. Some portraits are directly linked to events - celebrations, sporting competitions, anniversaries - in the Port and reflect the culture and ceremonial milestones that marked life in this unique community. The highly staged portraits with props and elaborate backdrops hint at the preciousness of a studio photograph to working class families and reflect on a period when photographs supplanted the painted portrait. Photographs were not meant to capture spontaneity but were records, to be treasured, of individuals at their very best.
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South Australia
Port Adelaide, South Australia
1900
1940
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MM 6
Burning Pipe Collection
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commercial traders
German Migration
personal effects/smoking accessories
pipes
Rundle Street
South Australia
Migration Museum, South Australia
pipes (smoking)
Smoking (Habit)
The Buring pipe collection consists of approximately 200 pieces dating from the 1850s to 1980. It includes a wide variety of pipes and smoking related items, ranging from the small and simple to the large and very ornate.
The materials from which these pipes are made include white clay, meerschaum clay, cherrywood, briar wood, maple, staghorn, porcelain, bone, metal, gourds, and even crab claws. The dominating style of pipe is European, but there are examples from Africa and Asia, including opium pipes. The collection was first started by Emil Buring who took over the family business 'Buring's Tobacconist' on Rundle St in 1923. He built on stock accumulated since 1853 when a cigar merchant from Hamburg named Uhlmann first opened the tobacconist shop which was sold on to Rudolph Buring. Emil's sons Philip and Ralph took over the business after the Second World War and Philip Buring further developed the collection.
The collection is a link to German migration to South Australia, and to commercial enterprise in Adelaide rather than the better known activities on the land and in the wine industry. At its height the collection was reputed to be third or fourth largest in the pipe collecting world, and was well known amongst pipe collectors. 'Buring's Tobacconists' became an iconic location and business in the development of Rundle Street as a commercial centre of Adelaide. The bulk of the collection was loaned for display at the Hahndorf Academy from the 1990s through to 2009. Attitudes towards smoking have changed so much in recent years that interpretation of the collection in future displays will be quite different.
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South Australia
Australia
1850
1980
NMM 8
Classic Vehicles collection
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Cars
Cars
Road vehicles
Environmental Impact
Manufacturing
Materials
Motorcars
Social Aspirations
Motor cars
National Motor Museum, South Australia
This collection includes a wide variety of post Second World War vehicles from British, American and Australian manufacturers. This was the age of the family car, when car ownership increased significantly, and many families acquired a second car.
This collection is representative of a period of peak production in the British and American vehicle manufacturing industries and the emergence of an Australian industry. American cars of the period can be characterised by their large size and engine capacity, while the British cars of the period tended to be smaller in size and engine capacity, but with higher power to weight ratios. The collection reveals the period's propensity for materials such as steel, the extensive and elaborate adornment of surfaces with chrome and wood veneer, and the emergence of new materials such as plastic. In 1948 Holden released the first 'All-Australian' car, the 48-215. In general, Australian vehicle manufacturers of this period tended to mirror their American counterparts, albeit on a slightly more prudent scale. [np] These vehicles represent to many enthusiasts the 'golden age' of motoring when environmental, resource and social considerations such as pollution, fuel consumption and traffic jams were not fundamental issues. It was the heyday, when motoring was fun, exhilarating and liberating.
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Britain
United States of America
Australia
1941
1985
NMM 10
Commercial Vehicle Collection
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Bus
c1909 - 1960
Commercial Vehicles: Hawker's Van
Fire Engine
Heavy Haulage
Heavy Transport
Truck
Buses
Emergency Vehicles
Trucks
Vans
Vehicles
commercial motor vehicles
Land transport
Road vehicles
Trucks
National Motor Museum, South Australia
A collection of motor vehicles, either specifically designed for or adapted for use in a commercial capacity. This collection has been donated to the National Motor Museum by various companies, individuals and government departments.
The collection comprises of various makes of trucks, buses and emergency service vehicles. These vehicles were built to convey goods or people for either commercial gain, economic stimulation or as a public service. The collection demonstrates the development of general transportation, such as trucks, as well as highly specialised forms of transportation, such as fire engines. Indeed, the 1909 Merryweather on display was Adelaide's first powered fire appliance. [np] All vehicles in this collection can be generally categorised by their size or weight, both of which are much larger than those of the private motorist's requirements. Some of these vehicles carry decoration or signage specific to the type of transport conducted. A number of these vehicles, such as Harry Monsoor's Hawker's Van, also reflect the lack of commercial infrastructure within the outback areas of South Australia and the resulting requirement for mobile commercial activities within this region.
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Australia
South Australia
1904
1960
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MM 9
Communty Banners Collection
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Banners
Multiculturalism
South Australia
Textiles
Banners
Handicrafts
Multiculturalism
Banners, Textiles
craft working
Migrants
Multiculturalism
Migration Museum, South Australia
The Community Banners collection currently consists of 42 banners made by South Australia's culturally diverse communities between 1985 and 2009.
In 1985, before the Migration Museum opened, staff invited community groups to make banners representing their memories, hopes and dreams as immigrants. These banners were displayed for the first time in May 1986 and were a feature of the Museum opening later that year. All banners were made up to Museum specifications using different fabrics and craft techniques. Since the initial workshops, at which almost 30 communities were represented, other communities have approached the Museum and donated banners. The collection is expected to continue to grow as more banners are donated.
When the Migration Museum was establishing itself Museum staff were keen to get to know and be known amongst South Australia's culturally diverse communities. The Community Banners project was instrumental in building some of those early networks. The banners represent diverse cultures in South Australia. Some banners have been made by one person on behalf of a community, others by small groups in a shared community project. The images used on the banners cover a range of themes representing: common memories of historical events, local landscapes, trees, flowers and animals, myths and legends, heroes and religious themes, the unforgettable experience of making a journey to a new life, and a search for symbols of community and history in the new land. The banners provide a record of how cultural communities in South Australia chose to represent their own past and their hopes for their future.
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Australia
South Australia
1986
1986
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MM 5
Dame Roma Mitchell collection
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Clothing
Photographs
Clothing
Clothing accessories
hats
Headwear
lace lengths
Photographs
Textiles
Costume
Costume accessories
Dame Roma Mitchell
Harold Flinders Mitchell
hats
lace
Maude Mitchell
Photographs
Costume
Photography
Dame Roma Mitchell
Migration Museum, South Australia
The Migration Museum's extensive costume collection features clothing and accessories bequeathed by the late Dame Roma Mitchell. Highlights include a Chinese costume given to one of Dame Roma's aunts aged 13-14 while she was living in Darwin, and lace sent to her mother Maude (nee Wickham) by her father Harold from France during the First World War (he was killed in action in 1918). The bequest also includes photos of Dame Roma wearing the clothing she donated, e.g. the hats she wore at her swearing in as Governor (1991) and unveiling of her statue on North Terrace, Adelaide (1999).
Dame Roma Mitchell (1913-2000) has been christened 'Roma the First' by her biographers (Magarey & Round, 2007) due to her long list of pioneering achievements. She was the first female Queen's Counsel (QC) in Australia (1962); the first female judge of a Supreme Court in Australia (1965); first Chair of the Human Rights Commission (1981); first female chancellor of an Australian University (1983); and the first female Governor of an Australian state (1991). Dame Roma was a champion of multiculturalism and supporter of the Migration Museum. Her smart fashion sense was often observed in the social pages of the Adelaide press.
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Australia
South Australia
1913
2000
NMM 14
Eddie Perkins Collection
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Awards
Eddie Perkins
Motorcars
Reliability Trials
Driving
Racing Cars
Road vehicles
Eddie Perkins
National Motor Museum, South Australia
outback
Racing Cars
silverware
Trophies
The Eddie Perkins Collection represents the prizes that were won by Eddie Perkins during his motor racing days of the 1950s and 1960s, especially the Around Australia Reliability Trials. It includes an extensive collection of silverware and some ephemera, as well as the suit Perkins wore and the dress worn by his wife at the presentation ceremony for his 1956 Reliability Trials win.
The Reliability Trials of the 1950s and 1960s were important national events and received wide-spread media coverage. They took the focus of the nation to many small outback and regional towns, helping to shape people's understanding of the bush in the years after the Second World War. Well-known Around Australia Rally drivers include Possum Kipling and Gelignite Jack Murray (famous for throwing explosives from his car window). The Eddie Perkins Collection provides an example of the type of prize awarded in this era - full of intricate mainly domestic silverware. [np] Eddie Perkins (1920-2006) won the 1956 Trial in a Volkswagen Beetle with his brother Lance as co-driver, helping to put this European car on the Australian map. He was the patriarch of this well-known motorsport family: his son Larry won multiple Bathurst 1000 races, and grandson Jack is a well-known V8 Supercar driver.
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Cowangie
Victoria
1950
1969
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SAMM 11
Exploration
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anchor
Dutch
Exploration
Investigator
Le Geographe
Macassan
Matthew Flinders
Mauritius
Nicolas Baudin
Anchors
Exploration
globes
parts of vessels (watercraft)
shipwreck artefacts
Anchors
Cannons
Celestial globes
Nautical equipment
Navigational equipment
Plaques
Terrestrial globes
Anchors (Ships)
Artefacts
Celestial spheres
Exploration
maritime history
shipwrecks
Matthew Flinders
Nicolas Baudin
South Australian Maritime Museum
This small but highly significant collection relates to European exploration of the Australian, particularly South Australian, coastline from the seventeenth to mid nineteenth century. The collection includes artefacts retrieved from Dutch trading vessels shipwrecked off Australia's south west coast in 1656. It's most iconic objects are those linked to the voyages of British explorer Matthew Flinders and French commander Nicolas Baudin, whose expeditions both charted the South Australian coastline in 1802.
Matthew Flinders circumnavigated Australia from 1801 to 1803 and is responsible for completing the first accurate chart of the South Australian coastline; he is hailed as one of the most important figures in South Australian history and in the history of maritime exploration in Australia. The collection includes the best bower anchor from Flinders' ship HMS Investigator. On 17 May 1803 Flinders anchored off Middle Island at the western end of the Great Australian Bight to provision the ship. When a strong breeze threatened to dash Investigator onto the rocky shore, Flinders ordered the anchor to be severed. It was retrieved by the Underwater Explorers Club in 1973. The museum holds fragments of a copper plaque Flinders placed at Memory Cove near Port Lincoln, in South Australia after eight of his crew drowned there in February 1802. The plaque is part of South Australia's Historical Relics Collection and is one of the Australia's first memorials - perhaps the first physical item left by Europeans in South Australia. The collection also includes a marble plaque commissioned by Lady Jane Franklin in 1841 to commemorate Flinders' expedition and the role of her husband Sir John Franklin who served under Flinders. A full exhibition ship model of the HMS Investigator (1795) helps audiences understand the challenges faced by 19th century captains and crew living and navigating a small wooden vessel in uncharted waters. The rigors of the voyage and its discoveries are documented in Flinders account of the expedition A Voyage to Terra Australis published in 1814. The collection also includes a first edition of Freycinet and Peron's account of the French expedition led by Nicolas Baudin - Voyage de Decouvertes aux Terres Australes (Paris, 1807-16). Between 1801 and 1803, under instruction from Napoleon Bonaparte, French commander Nicolas Baudin led one of the best equipped scientific voyages of discovery ever mounted by the French. It collected more than 100,000 specimens of Australian fauna and flora representing almost 4,000 species. Despite their respective countries being at war, the expeditions of Flinders and Baudin encountered each other off the South Australian coast in April 1802 and exchanged information. This encounter is perhaps the most significant events in the history of South Australian maritime exploration. The collection includes artefacts retrieved from the Dutch trading vessel Vergulde Draeck wrecked off the south west coast of Australia in 1656. These objects highlight the fact that other European nations had established lucrative trading syndicates and ventured into Australia's waters well before the French and English. The museum owns a small seventeenth century iron swivel canon (part of the Historic Relics Collection) that was retrieved in 1907 from a cairn in the Northern Territory. Research indicates that it probably was linked to Macassan voyagers, whose links with Australia and particularly the Indigenous people of Northern Australia substantially pre date the Dutch. Early nineteenth century terrestrial and celestial globes in the collection illustrate geographical knowledge explorers had of the world during their voyages, while octants and sextants dating from the turn of the nineteenth century help audiences understand the ways in which they navigated and mapped the coastline.
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South Australia
Encounter Bay
France
Britain
1650
1850
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MM 1
Fan collection
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Cooling equipment
fans
folding fans
hand fans
rigid fans
Costume accessories
fans
fans
Fashion accessories
fans (accessories)
Personal effects
Migration Museum, South Australia
Sym Choon family
The Migration Museum holds approximately 50 hand-held fans of varying quality, aesthetic beauty and provenance. The majority are ornamental folding fans designed to be closed when not in use. Some are believed to have been brought to South Australia from Europe in the early days of the colony. The 'oriental' history of fans is represented by those formerly stocked by the China Gift Store on Rundle Street, Adelaide (owned by the Sym Choon family). The collection also includes a couple of paper promotional and commemorative fans issued by John Martin's Department Store.
In one sense these fans were utilitarian, especially for European migrants unused to South Australia's hot, dry summers. However, the collection really reflects the decorative nature of fans owned by South Australia's middle and upper classes in the 19th and 20th century. Many of the fans serve as accessories to the Migration Museum's extensive costume collection, whereas the paper fans are ephemera used to mark significant occasions in South Australia's history.
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China Gift Store, Rundle Street, Adelaide
South Australia
Australia
John Martin's Department Store, Adelaide
1735
1945
DIR 4
Frank Hurley photographic collection
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Glass plate negatives
History SA, South Australia
James Francis (Frank) Hurley
South Australia
South Australian history
This sub-collection of the South Australian Government Photographic Collection (c.1890-1957) comprises 288 photographs taken by James Francis (Frank) Hurley in 1935. They depict aspects of South Australia and Central Australia.
The images showcase South and central Australia. Of the 288 images, Hurley took forty-five in the West MacDonnell Ranges and the Alice Springs areas of the Northern Territory. He also took most, if not all, of twenty-two images of Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory. The remaining 221 photographs feature Adelaide and its surrounds, the Botanic Gardens, the almond blossom, Beltana, Coward Springs, the Flinders and Mount Lofty Ranges, Port Lincoln, Port Pirie, Iron Knob, the River Murray, Victor Harbor and the south east of the state.
The Government Immigration, Publicity and Tourist Bureau commissioned Hurley in 1935 to take the images to showcase South Australia for its centenary year in 1936. By the 1930s Hurley was a leading Australian documentary photographer and filmmaker. Hurley had filmed in the Antarctic for both Sir Douglas Mawson and Sir Ernest Shackleton, been an official photographer during the First World War and filmed in Papua New Guinea. Hurley was known for his creativity, meticulous style and attention to detail. The images of South Australia’s scenic beauty, civic precincts and primary and secondary industries show Hurley’s careful attention to composition and aesthetics.
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The original glass plates are held by State Records of South Australia (GRG35/342). History SA holds the catalogue and digitised copy set of the collection.
South Australia
Northern Territory
Australia
1935
1935
NMM 9
George Brooks Library and Collection
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Cars
handbooks
Cars
Collecting
Road vehicles
Written texts
Edwardian Motoring
Manuals
Motor Books
Veteran
Vintage
George Brooks
National Motor Museum, South Australia
Motor cars
This significant collection of motoring-related books was the undertaking of Australian motoring historian George Brooks. It comprises books, handbooks, manuals and periodicals.
A professional engineer by trade, George Brooks has a lifelong love of motoring, and in particular motoring of the Edwardian era. The collection reflects a broad cross-section of Brooks' interests and contains many books contemporary to his involvement in vintage and veteran motoring, as well as his extensive interests in British and European motor manufacturers. [np] The collection has been complimented by books collected by the National Motor Museum itself. Amongst these is a collection of motorcar and motorcycle repair manuals and owners handbooks published by various motor vehicle manufacturers. Also held within the library is an extensive collection of motoring magazines, including motorcycling magazines, many of which contain contemporary accounts of road tests for the then new vehicles, published to aid the prospective purchaser.
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England
Australia
Europe
1935
2010
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MM 7
Giordano Collection
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Antonio Giordano
Lucy Truman
Migration Museum, South Australia
Certificates
Documents
identification passes
Migrants
Documents
Italian
South Australian
Personal identity
world wars
The Migration Museum holds over 60 items, mostly documents, relating to the personal life, internment, career and community works of Antonio Giordano. The collection includes a copy of Giordano's birth certificate, the original issued in Naples, Italy, 1907.
Antonio Giordano arrived in Australia in 1924. Documents and identity cards in the collection record his early career as a journalist. While living in Sydney in 1940 Giordano was interned as a prisoner of war, first in NSW at Hay and Orange and then at Loveday in South Australia. Several documents in the collection relate to Giordano's internment, including caricatures drawn by Giordano and by his friend Yonny. Also in the collection is a notice of discharge from the Civil Aliens' Corps, marking Giordano's release in 1945. [np] Antonio Giordano married Lucy Truman in August 1945 in Adelaide. Many of the items in the collection not donated by Antonio himself were donated to the Migration Museum by Lucy. One example of this is Antonio Giordano's certificate of naturalisation, dated 6 November 1946. Giordano moved to Adelaide permanently in 1952. Many of the other documents in the collection are from the years after he settled in South Australia and demonstrate Giordano's active involvement in the Italian community and his role in the establishment of various community organisations.
Antonio Giordano was a well respected leader in the Italian community, and was recognised, not only for his contribution within the Italian community, but to the broader South Australian and Australian community. The collection held by the Migration Museum demonstrates his achievements, as well as documenting his resilience in the face of hardships as an enemy alien during the Second World War, and his persistent campaign against negative attitudes towards migrants. He maintained a strong love of his Italian culture and was involved in the formation of a number of community organisations, including the Roma Amateur Sports Club, the Italian Information Service, the National Association of Emigrant Families (ANFE) and the South Australian Soccer Federation. He was also actively involved in the Adelaide Juventus Sports and Social Club and the Good Neighbour Council.
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ADB entry for Antonio Giordano: http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A170437b.htm
Loveday, South Australia
Australia
Orange, NSW
South Australia
Hay, NSW
Italy
1907
1984
NMM 13
Hauschild collection of model cars
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20th century
Toy motorcars
Cars
model cars
Collecting
model cars
Road vehicles
Eric Hauschild
National Motor Museum, South Australia
small scale models
Toy motor cars
The Hauschild Collection of model cars comprises 109 model cars, predominantly Corgi models, accompanied by original boxes. The private collection was donated to the National Motor Museum by Eric Hauschild's daughter.
Toy and model cars have had significant appeal to both children and serious collectors. This collection represents the passion of one man, Eric Hauschild (1921-1997). The first car in the collection - an Australian made Micro Models car - was purchased in 1952. Micro Models produced a number of Australian cars in scale model, but when production ceased in 1961, Hauschild turned his attention to Corgi model cars. Corgi toys earned the tag 'the ones with the windows' for their clear plastic windscreens and windows. The company had a policy of constant innovation; in 1959 spring suspension was introduced; in 1961 models included jewelled headlamps, opening hoods and contoured wheel hubs; in 1962 they were available with fingertip steering and optic fibre lights, and in 1964, working windscreen wipers were a feature.
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South Australia
Adelaide
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MM 10
Historical Relics Collection
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Artefacts
colonies
Free settlers
maritime history
mining
Money
Surveying (Geography)
weapons
British Settlement
Colonial Government
Exploration
maritime history
Military History
mining
South Australia
surveying
coins
Documents
Maps
Mining equipment
Money
surveying equipment
weapons
colonies
currency
Exploration
Migrants
souvenirs
surveying
weapons
Migration Museum, South Australia
A collection of nearly 1,400 objects related to the foundation and settlement of the British colony of South Australia.
The collection covers a broad range of subjects including: early migrants in South Australia, the HMS Buffalo, surveying, the foundation of Adelaide, colonial government, exploration, mining, industry, early military history, royal memorabilia, numismatics and weapons. The collection features significant objects such as Light's plan of Adelaide, the Stanhope Press (the first printing press in South Australia) and the Tinline Salver, among many other state treasures.
The Historical Relics Collection is one of the most extensive collections of artefacts from the early years of the British colony of South Australia. It provides an invaluable record of early settlers, explorers and the colonial government. The collection is reported to have started in 1836 in connection to the formation of the South Australian Company in England. First archival documents and then 'relics' were donated to Mechanical Institutes and other organisations which then formed the South Australian Institute. The collection was retained by the Boards of the Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery until 1940 when it was moved to the Art Gallery as it became a separate institution. It was at that time that a register was compiled and the collection was first referred to as the 'Historical Relics'. The collection was transferred from the Art Gallery of South Australia in 1984 to the History Trust of South Australia, now named History SA. The Migration Museum and South Australian Maritime Museum now manage the Historical Relics on behalf of History SA.
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South Australia
Australia
1836
1986
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SAMM 6
HMCS Protector collection
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Artefacts
maritime history
Painting
Photography
Boxer Rebellion
Colonial navy
Port Adelaide
Protector
South Australia
Commemorative objects
Documents
paintings
Photographs
paintings
Personal effects
Photography
vessels (watercraft)
South Australian Maritime Museum
The collection of personal memorabilia and official material captures the history of South Australia's colonial naval vessel HMCS Protector between 1884 and 1950. The collection comprises more than 90 artefacts relating to the history of this specific vessel including paintings, photographs, documents, and personal mementos.
The Protector material includes nineteenth and twentieth century paintings, two by notable early 20th century maritime artist Frederick Dawson, historic photographs of crew and of the vessel in South Australian ports, ship fittings, a nose cone from shells fired during the vessel's drills, and vases fashioned from shell casings. Personal memorabilia includes a sword belt belonging to Captain CJ Clare, the last commander on the vessel before it was transferred to the Federal government in 1901, a sword and medals belonging to Captain Norton, a wooden money box in the shape of a half model crafted by the Protector's gunner William Blake, and a dress sword, cat-o-nine tail, binoculars, diary and stores book owned by Edwin Argent, who also served as a gunner. The collection also includes a Queen Victoria medal issued to those who served during the Boxer Rebellion and souvenirs acquired by seaman Henry Perry from his voyage to China as gifts for his young family.
Protector was the most significant vessel in South Australian naval history. The vessel was built for the South Australian government in response to a directive from the British government that the colonies acquire gunboats or torpedo boats and man these with locally recruited men to protect the major ports. Protector arrived in South Australia in 1884. Its duties initially comprised vice regal tours to South Australian out ports, manoeuvres and training drills. In 1888 following the tragic shipwreck of the Star of Greece, Protector was made responsible for the training and maintenance of the colony's lifeboat service which had languished since the early 1860s. The most dramatic event in the vessel's history occurred in 1900 when Protector was sent to help quell the Boxer Uprising in China as one of a combined British naval force. Protector saw no action, but the efficiency of its crew was noted by the Royal Navy. Following the establishment of the Royal Australian Navy in 1910, Protector became a Commonwealth naval ship. The Protector collection provides insights into the significance and role of the colonial navy in South Australia. The Protector's voyage to the Boxer Rebellion in 1901 was a defining moment in the history of the South Australia in that a local naval force was asked to assist the British in a major conflict and acquitted itself with flair and dignity. Argent's diary from the voyage is a rare personal account of this endeavour. Stores and duty books also owned by Argent provide a window into the routines, rhythms and regulations of a colonial naval ship. The Protector was a familiar local sight and many Port Adelaide families were connected to the vessel in some way either in provisioning, maintenance or with sons serving on the ship itself. While there is material relating to the Protector in other institutions, this collection is the most comprehensive and complete.
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South Australia
Port Adelaide, South Australia
China
1884
1950
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MM 4
Identity Documents
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19th Century to present
Certificates
Documents
Identity
licences
papers
passports
permits
qualifications
records
administrative records
cards
Certificates
Correspondence
diplomas
Documents
Genealogical documents
government records
Identity badges
Identity cards
Identity devices
Identity photographs
legal documents
licences
maritime documents
pages
passes
passports
Personal papers
photocopies
statutory declarations
Tickets
transfers
travel documents
Certificates
Documents
identification passes
migration
Personal identity
Travel
Migration Museum, South Australia
The Migration Museum holds a substantial collection of documents that record migrants' 'vital statistics', such as date and place of birth, age, nationality, sex, marriage, parentage, children, profession, and date of death. These are primarily government-issued papers, such as birth, death and marriage certificates, passports, movement permits/passes, naturalisation or citizenship certificates, exemption certificates and documents generated through health checks, such as immunisation certificates. Records relating to recognition of overseas qualifications, licenses and employment, such as curricula vitae/résumés, degrees and reference letters, and military-related identity documents, such as enlistment forms, service records and discharge certificates, also feature in the collection.
An important and almost universal aspect of the migration experience is formal confirmation of identity. This is particularly true for Displaced Persons and asylum seekers, who often need to establish their identity in the absence of appropriate papers. This historical collection demonstrates national governments' changing approaches to, and various technology used for, capturing personal identity in a portable, secure and verifiable format. The level of control imposed upon individuals often reflects the contemporary political situation. Consequently, the collection illustrates the different requirements placed on migrants at sites of departure, transit and arrival. [np] Preference is given to acquiring sets of documents and personal effects that record as much of a person's life as possible, so that official public records are complemented by those of a more personal nature. This might include evidence of group membership or affiliation, private correspondence, diaries, photographs, etc.
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International
1800
1899
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MM 11
John McDouall Stuart Collection
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Equipment
Firearms
Personal effects
expeditions
Exploration
Explorers
Personal effects
Exploration
Explorers
Exploration
South Australia
John McDouall Stuart
Migration Museum, South Australia
A sub-collection of the Historical Relics Collection, these objects all relate to the explorer John McDouall Stuart or to those that accompanied him on his six expeditions. The collection ranges from personal items, such as a scarf ring and smoking cap, through to exploration equipment, pieces of trees, a pocket book and fire arms. There are just under 50 objects in this collection.
John McDouall Stuart was the first European to successfully cross Australia from south to north and back, from Adelaide to Van Diemen Gulf. Stuart and his 'companions' completed this crossing in 1862. Stuart had undertaken five previous expeditions, three of which were attempts to cross the continent. Following Stuart's successful exploration South Australia gained control of the Northern Territory and established a settlement at Darwin. Stuart's crossing directly influenced the later route of the Australian Overland Telegraph Line, which in 1872 connected Darwin to Port Augusta, and thus Adelaide, and allowed faster communication between Australia and the rest of the world. There was significant excitement in Adelaide at the time of Stuart's successful crossing, and the collection includes a flag used to welcome Stuart and his team back to Adelaide. The collection is material evidence of Stuart's life and explorations.
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South Australia
Australia
1840
1890
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MM 3
Jubilee 150 Collection
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Anniversaries
souvenirs
Anniversaries
Costume
Clothing
Clothing accessories
Commemorative objects
Replicas
European settlement
Impact
J150
J150 Women's Executive Committee
John Martins
Jubilee 150
South Australia
John Martin's Department Store, Adelaide
Migration Museum, South Australia
This collection constitutes approximately 200 items relating to the sesquicentenary (150th anniversary) of European settlement of South Australia in 1986 (known as Jubilee 150 or J150). The core of the collection is the original and reproduction costumes and accessories used in the popular social history exhibition Those Were The Days. The exhibition was a project of the Women's Executive Committee and held in John Martin's Department Store in Adelaide. The remainder of the collection is mainly souvenirs featuring the J150 logo and 'J.W.' the wombat, the J150 mascot.
South Australia celebrated the sesquicentenary (150th anniversary) of European settlement in 1986. A feature of the Jubilee 150 (J150) was the popular costume and social history exhibition Those Were The Days. The exhibition was a project of the Women's Executive Committee and was held in the Auditorium at John Martin's Rundle Mall store between 22 August and 13 September. The Committee donated most of the costumes and accessories to the Migration Museum, which opened in 1986.
Each significant anniversary of European settlement in South Australia since 1836 (major dates being 1886 [50th], 1936 [100th] and 1986 [150th]) has had a particular flavour, spirit and/or atmosphere, reflecting South Australian society at that time. Jubilee 150 (1986) was a particularly well-coordinated and well-funded celebration. It was potentially the last time that an anniversary of European settlement would be 'celebrated', rather than 'marked', in South Australia. Protests about the celebratory nature of the 1988 Australian Bicentenary, and the consequent Reconciliation movement, have meant that future anniversaries are likely to pay greater heed to the impact of European settlement on Indigenous Australians.
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Australia
South Australia
John Martin's Department Store, Adelaide
1986
1986
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MM 8
Kiss Family Collection
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administrative records
cards
Certificates
Correspondence
diplomas
Genealogical documents
government records
Identity badges
Identity cards
Identity devices
Identity photographs
legal documents
licences
pages
passes
passports
Personal papers
photocopies
statutory declarations
Textiles
Tickets
transfers
travel documents
Anna DeBono
Anna Kiss
Kalman Kiss
Migration Museum, South Australia
craft working
Documents
Migrants
Photographs
Cultural Heritage, Traditions
Hungarian
South Australia
Handicrafts
migration
Personal identity
world wars
The Migration Museum holds roughly 15 personal items and an additional collection of photographs, relating to Anna and Kalman Kiss. The collection was donated by their foster daughter Anna DeBono.
Kalman Kiss was in the Hungarian army and his uniform is the most recent addition to the collection. The collection also includes passports, a marriage certificate, postcards and other personal papers. Two small embroidered mats complete the collection. These were made by Anna Kiss in her home in Adelaide, Australia, to a traditional Hungarian design.
Anna and Kalman Kiss were Displaced Persons (DPs) following the Soviet invasion of Hungary. Their story is similar to many people displaced by the events of the Second World War and its aftermath. After time in a Displaced Persons camp in Europe they migrated to Australia, bringing with them few possessions. Their personal papers illuminate a little of their story. While Anna was not able to bring many mementoes of Hungary with her she filled her home with Hungarian crafts, some that she made herself as the mats in this collection show, and some bought as souvenirs on later visits to her former home country. The collection, particularly through the photographs, shows Anna and Kalman established a new life in Australia, where they took up citizenship, while maintaining strong connections with their Hungarian culture.
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Hungary
South Australia
Australia
1940
1999
NMM 5
Lightburn Collection
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Cars
Cars
Road vehicles
Frisky
Harold Lightburn
Manufacturing
Zeta
Zeta Sports
Harold Lightburn
Lightburn Manufacturing Company
National Motor Museum, South Australia
Motor cars
This extensive collection of papers and drawings come from the corporate archive of the Adelaide based Lightburn Manufacturing Company, which manufactured the Zeta motor car in the 1960s.
Harold Lightburn, a manufacturer of household goods, including washing machines and small industrial products, such as concrete mixers became intrigued with the idea of developing and marketing a small car to the Australian motoring public. He purchased a small sports car already under development in the UK, the Frisky, and manufactured it in Australia as the Zeta Sports. Subsequently, he decided to design and build a small family car based on the Zeta Sports platform. [np] Lightburn eventually succeeded in his bid to establish a production line and distributorship for this small family car. However, in general, the Australian car buying public was not attuned to smaller cars and with limited demand, the operation soon became uneconomic and folded. Harold Lightburn's legacy is in his forward thinking in regard to vehicle size, fuel economy and his use of innovative manufacturing techniques such as fibreglass.
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South Australia
England
Adelaide
1955
1966
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SAMM 12
Lighthouse collection
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beacon
Chance Brothers
lens
lighthouse
marker
beacons
lighthouse keepers
Lighthouses
Personal effects
Photography
signals & signalling
waterway lights (warning)
Lighthouses
Personal effects
Lighthouses
maritime history
Navigation
Navigation equipment
Photography
South Australian Maritime Museum
The collection of material related to South Australia's lighthouses includes a prefabricated iron plate lighthouse, lanterns and equipment as well as approximately 250 photographs. The collection documents navigational aids in South Australia from the mid nineteenth century until the late twentieth century, with a particular focus on the history of the Port Adelaide (later South Neptune Island) lighthouse.
The collection helps record the history of navigational aids in South Australia. It is significant in terms of economic history--documenting lighthouses, channel markers and beacons that provided the infrastructure essential to shipping, commerce and passenger travel. These aids warned mariners away from hazards and marked shipping channels and harbours. The collection is socially significant in documenting the lives of the small communities of keepers and their families who crewed the lights on isolated islands and reefs. The focus of the collection is the Port Adelaide lighthouse which was originally located on a wooden platform at the entrance to the Port River. The prefabricated tower and lantern were imported from Chance Brothers in the United Kingdom, the company that supplied prefabricated lighthouses throughout Australia and the British Empire in the nineteenth century. The lighthouse was first lit on 1 January 1869. The lighthouse was dismantled and transported to South Neptune Island and lit with a second order lens on 1 November 1901. The light was replaced by an automated light in 1985. The original lighthouse was moved to Port Adelaide to become part of the South Australian Maritime Museum's collection in 1985.
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Spencer Gulf
Semaphore
South Neptune Island
South Australia
Port Adelaide, South Australia
Wonga Shoal
1867
1984
NMM 3
Map collection
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Advertising
Cartography
Maps
Road Network
Travelling
Maps
Road maps
Street directories
Maps
Road vehicles
National Motor Museum, South Australia
This collection comprises maps of Australia's ever expanding road network, produced by specialist Australian publishers and fuel companies . It includes early metropolitan road maps, interstate touring maps and street directories.
This collection documents the growth in number and detail of road maps across Australia throughout the twentieth century. Often early motor vehicle journeys were conducted with the most basic of maps, which had been either drawn by hand or utilised what were known as 'survey' maps, principally intended to legitimise land claims. As the number of motor vehicles increased, so did the requirement for better maps. Initially maps of the road network within the major cities were considered to be of primary importance. The collection charts the expansion of networked road maps from the cities to outlying and regional areas as owners of motor vehicles began venturing further afield. While European settlers had moved into the remote and regional area long before the advent of motor vehicles, this collection of maps helps to demonstrate how quickly motor vehicles became an important tool in the 'conquest of the bush'. [np] Interstate road network information, road conditions, petrol supplies, and historical and scenic locations were all included. Once there were major roads established between the larger cities, accurate information about the road conditions and petrol supplies were also required. Touring maps, indicating major interstate roads and conditions as well as petrol supplies, became increasingly important to those planning a motoring journey. The collection reveals how fuel companies capitalised on the advertising opportunities presented by touring maps, with commissioned maps supplied to travellers at petrol outlets. These maps not only included petrol stations on route, but also indicated historical or scenic stops for the entertainment of the traveller, affording insight into the social history of motoring.
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Australia
1915
2000
NMM 12
Motorcycle Collection
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c1912 - 2000
Manufacturing
motorcycles
Motorcycling
Motorbikes
Road vehicles
motorcycles
motorcycles
National Motor Museum, South Australia
This collection reflects the development of the motorcycle, and the preferences of Australian riders.
The motorcycle was one of the first petrol driven vehicles which allowed public access to mass produced transportation. Developed in a number of countries, motorcycles grew out of the bicycle manufacturing business. Because of its basis in this industry, which was already attuned to mass production, motorcycles were relatively affordable compared with a motorcar prior to the Second World War. Indeed, motorcycles with side cars were common family transportation. [np] There are many examples of British bikes in the collection - such as AJS and Royal Enfield, reflecting their dominance in the Australian market. However there are examples of other motorcycles from the USA and Europe which reflect the wide background of the Australia motorcycle market. [np] The collection also contains a cross-section of early Japanese motorcycles showing their progression from a manufacturer of cheap commuter type motorcycles through to high specification racing machines. [np] A small section of the collection is devoted to Australian built motorcycles; the size of this section of the collection reflects the relatively small status of Australian motorcycle manufacturing.
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United States of America
Japan
Britain
Australia
1907
2000
NMM 2
Motoring Brochures and Advertising Collection
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Advertisements
Marketing
Road vehicles
Advertising
Graphic Arts
Marketing
Motorcars
Advertising leaflets
Advertising pamphlets
Motor cars
Cars
National Motor Museum, South Australia
This extensive collection of motor vehicle sales brochures and advertising ephemera showcases many of the vehicles that have been offered for sale in Australia.
This collection documents how from the earliest days of motoring, car companies have sought to maximise their market share through the creation of advertising materials. Brochures present technical details of vehicles, but also endeavour to lure the purchaser by showing images that would suggest a particular kind of lifestyle that might accompany the purchase of the vehicle. Early brochures in the collection demonstrate this with artist's renderings creating the 'right image' of the vehicle which often deviated from the actual look of the vehicle. The collection illustrates twentieth century shifts in motor vehicle advertising, ultimately tracing the development of print technology and the move towards glossy image oriented motor vehicle advertising materials.
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Australia
International
1905
2010
DIR 3
National Flower Day photographic collection
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Adelaide
civic pride
decoration
flowers
National Flower Day
South Australia
South Australian history
flowers
Glass plate negatives
Wreaths
History SA, South Australia
This sub-collection of the South Australian Government Photographic Collection (c.1890-1957) includes 100 images of National Flower Day, held annually in South Australia between 1938 and 1975.
The collection captures National Flower Day exhibits in four separate years: 1938, 1939, 1948 and 1949. The photographs show the types of displays that were laid out. For example, there were carpets of flowers, nursery-rhyme scenes, displays honouring returned service men and women, a miniature Japanese garden, a school crest, and a Legacy badge, all made with flowers. Some displays were ‘in ground’ displays while others decorated buildings or were exhibited in cases. Locations captured in the collection include the Government Tourist Bureau offices, the lawn in front of the War Memorial on North Terrace, the lawns adjacent to the western wall of Government House, Victoria Square, Wakefield street, the YWCA, and the State Bank of South Australia.
This collection captures the nature of Adelaide’s National Flower Day, an event unique to the state and held annually from 1938 to 1975. Organised and run by a volunteer committee of women, the aim of National Flower Day was to promote Adelaide both within Australia and the British Empire and germinate in Adelaidians a desire to beautify their own suburban streets. National Flower Day began in April 1938 with the support of Mrs Grace (Gretta) Margaret Lewis, the woman responsible for the spectacular 1936 Floral Pageant held during South Australia’s centenary year celebrations.
Displays featuring the Union Jack and the use of flowers that were predominantly English or European suggest that Flower Day reflected South Australia’s British heritage. And yet, nationalism was evident as early as the first Flower Day in 1938 with the use of the rising sun in floral displays. The rising sun was by then a popular image that symbolised Australia’s nationhood, wartime heritage, youth, opportunity and integrity.
National Flower Day relied heavily on the volunteer principle. Women gave freely of their time and through their school-age children, families donated flowers which were then arranged at various locations around Adelaide. Incorporated into the Adelaide Festival of Arts in 1960, National Flower Day ceased after 1975.
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The original glass plates are held by State Records of South Australia (GRG35/342). History SA holds the catalogue and digitised copy set of the collection.
Australia
Adelaide, South Australia
1938
1949
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SAMM 1
Nautical instrument collection
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Astronomical instruments
Geographic location
Latitude
Longitude
Marine charts
Navigation
water transport
chronometer
compass
nautical instruments
Navigation
octant
quadrant
sextant
ship log
telescope
Edward Massey
I C. Piers
Port Adelaide Institute
Port Adelaide Nautical Museum
Sawtell Opticians
South Australian Maritime Museum
Spencer, Browning & Rust
Troughton & Simms
Nautical equipment
navigational instruments
Nautical equipment
Navigational equipment
This collection comprises approximately forty nautical instruments dating from 1800 - 1960s. The instruments were used for navigating and charting at sea and include compasses, sextants, quadrants, octants, chronometers, parallel rules, marine protractors, binoculars, telescopes and station pointers.
This collection of forty nautical instruments were mostly acquired via the Port Adelaide Institute, established in 1876 (later the Port Adelaide Nautical Museum). The collection includes examples from some of the finest and most notable nautical instrument manufacturers from the UK and Australia including Spencer, Browning & Rust, London 1784 to 1840, Troughton & Simms, and British instrument maker Edward Massey who obtained at least six British patents on ship logs and other nautical measuring instruments between 1802 and 1848. The collection also includes instruments from Port Adelaide instrument makers including I C. Piers, first listed in 1879, and Sawtell Opticians, a company operating from the 19th century that manufactured chronometers, compasses, barometers, and telescopes and published nautical almanacs and navigational guides. Many of the instruments are retained in their original purpose built wooden cases.
This is a highly significant collection of rare and often valuable instruments used for navigating at sea. Some of them have clear provenance and were sourced from vessels that voyaged to South Australia or worked in South Australian waters. The instruments were used to calculate longitude and latitude and to chart the coastline. While today most vessels rely on GPS (Global Positioning System), seafarers previously had to rely on compasses, precision clocks (chronometers) and readings taken from celestial bodies. The selection of instruments provides insights into the finely honed navigational skills demanded of early seafarers. It includes examples of the same instrument from various eras and clearly illustrates how nautical technology has changed and evolved over time. Most of the instruments are exquisitely crafted.
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London
South Australia
Port Adelaide, South Australia
United Kingdom
1800
1969
DIR 8
Norm Mitchell Cartoon collection
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Artworks
Cartoons
Political cartoons
Artworks
Cartoons
Political cartoons
History SA, South Australia
This collection of over 200 cartoons are the original pen and ink sketches drawn by cartoonist Norm Mitchell during his tenure with the Adelaide paper The News between 1965 and 1980.
The collection consists of more than 200 cartoon drawings spanning a range of different topics including constitutional issues, elections, trade unions, racial discrimination, parliamentary legislation, politicians, political parties, water, taxation, transport, public servants, and the arts. The cartoons include some of Mitchell’s personal observations of topical issues while others relate to general issues of a broader spectrum. The collection was donated to History SA by Norm Mitchell’s widow.
This collection comprises original drawings by the artist Norm Mitchell who worked as Editorial Cartoonist for the Murdoch owned paper The News in Adelaide from 1950 until his death in 1980. The cartoons are a humorous and generally cynical expose of topical issues in the social, political and administrative history of South Australia. Mitchell’s use of everyday language and concepts delivered a particular outlook on South Australian life, events and politics. Mitchell was afforded national recognition in 1975 when he was awarded the 42nd Walkley Award for the best Australian cartoon for a comment on opinion-poll driven politics. Greatly admired by his contemporaries and the public, Mitchell was prolific, producing one cartoon a day for 48 weeks of the year during his 30 years with the paper.
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South Australia
1965
1980
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SAMM 10
Port Adelaide Nautical Museum collection
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Anchors (Ships)
Artefacts
education
maritime history
model ships
Navigation
Navigation equipment
Painting
Photography
chests (boxes)
education
model ships
navigational instruments
paintings
Personal effects
Photography
souvenirs
ephemera
Models
Nautical equipment
Navigational equipment
paintings
Photographs
Scrimshaw
nautical instruments
Painting
sailmakers crafts
seachest
souvenirs
Port Adelaide Institute
Port Adelaide Nautical Museum
South Australian Maritime Museum
This large collection of over 500 items ranges across many material types from ship models, navigation instruments, souvenirs, sea chests, personal belongings, paintings and photographs. Most of these were donated to the Port Adelaide Institute, later the Port Adelaide Nautical Museum, by seafarers who passed through Port Adelaide during the nineteenth and early twentieth century.
The Port Adelaide Nautical Museum is believed to be the oldest maritime collection in Australia. The collection was begun in 1872 as a general museum collection of the Port Adelaide Institute. It was assembled from donations from members. It included seafarer's souvenirs of voyages to the Pacific, pieces of shipwrecks and famous ships. They ranged from manufactured souvenirs such as a copper plaque made from the copper sheathing on Horatio Nelson's ship Foudroyant, to a piece of the hull of the German raider Emden bearing a bullet hole, to weathered pieces of timber taken from local wrecks. In the 1920s the collection was given a clear focus on maritime heritage and other material such as taxonomic specimens and European paintings were deaccessioned. At one level the collection is significant as a record of a nineteenth century museum and mechanics institute and of the nineteenth century movement for self education. At another level the collection is disparate and includes material that is significant to many themes including naval history, commercial shipping, life at sea, ship technology, shipwrecks, and maritime art and craft. An encompassing theme is the view of the world the collection presents from the place where it was collected.
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South Australia
Port Adelaide, South Australia
1817
1986
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MM 13
Queen Adelaide Collection
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British Settlement
Royal Memorabilia
South Australia
handkerchiefs
portraits
Harriet Wood
John Francis Adelbert Wood
John Ryle
King George V
Migration Museum, South Australia
Queen Mary
Wood familiy
Monarchy
portraits
queens
Personal effects
portraits
queens
royal family (Great Britain)
A collection of 25 objects relating to Queen Adelaide. Most of the objects are a sub-collection of the Historical Relics collection and many were donated to that collection by Queen Mary (wife of George V) in 1945.
The objects are largely personal items and include a handkerchief, devotional card and funeral instructions. Some of the objects are more closely connected to the Wood family, whose portraits form part of the collection. John Francis Adelbert Wood, son of John Ryle & Harriet Wood, was cousin and godson to Queen Adelaide.
The city of Adelaide was named after Queen Adelaide, and it is likely that this was the reason for the donation of these objects initially. The Queen Adelaide Collection is one of a number that illustrate the strong links between the early British colony in South Australia and the Empire of which it was a part. The objects in the collection demonstrate this link both in broad terms of the colony and for some early migrants they represent a direct connection of individuals to Queen Adelaide, through gifts received. This collection is also part of a wider collection of royal memorabilia kept by the Migration Museum.
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South Australia
Australia
1828
1945
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MM 14
Refugees Collection
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asylum seekers
c.19th century to present
refugees
South Australia
Displacement (Immigration)
immigration
migration
refugees
world wars
Documents
Models
Migrants
Multiculturalism
refugees
Migration Museum, South Australia
The Migration Museum holds a significant collection of objects relating to refugees. The bulk of this collection relates to Displaced Persons who migrated to South Australia after the Second World War.
The Migration Museum aims to collect objects spanning from German migrants fleeing religious persecution in the nineteenth century through to recent refugees. The objects span a wide range of material including identity documents for Displaced Persons, a model boat made by Vietnamese refugees in the 1980s and a pair of stones carved in the Woomera detention centre.
The Migration Museum recognises that not all immigrants have come here voluntarily. Refugees usually come here with very little which makes any material history relating to their previous homeland and journey especially precious. Often these objects have significant meaning for individuals who have been through the trauma of becoming a refugee, and people may be reluctant to part with them, limiting what may make it into museum collections. More frequently former refugees may wish to mark their achievements since they arrived in Australia, demonstrating how far they have come, and the Migration Museum collection reflects this as well.
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South Australia
Australia
1795
1905
DIR 2
Royal Adelaide Show photographic collection
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Adelaide
agriculture
Exhibitions
Royal Adelaide Show
South Australia
South Australian history
Glass plate negatives
History SA, South Australia
This sub-collection of the South Australian Government Photographic Collection (c.1890-1957) comprises 176 images of the Royal Adelaide Show, spanning the period 1897 to 1945.
This collection includes images taken in the following years: 1897, 1906, 1922, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1932, 1935, 1936, 1938, 1939, and 1948. The images captured from 1897 to 1925 show the activities, displays, grounds and buildings of the Royal Adelaide Show when it was located on North Terrace. In 1925 the show moved to its current location at Wayville and photos from 1925 onwards document the grounds, events, displays and the agricultural and horticultural presence at the Royal Adelaide Show until 1948. These images document grandstands and exhibition halls, parades of horses and other animals, prize-winning sheep, cattle, vegetables and bacon, displays of agricultural, viticultural, horticultural and pastoral produce, farm machinery, motor vehicles, wood-chopping competitions, sideshows, schoolgirls giving a cooking demonstration, food and drink stalls and people of all ages enjoying a day at the show.
This collection documents the growth of the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society of South Australia and the Royal Adelaide Show during the first half of the twentieth century, reflecting the importance of agriculture and horticulture to the state’s economy in this period. It is a visual record that includes the Show’s presence on North Terrace in the city and its subsequent move to Wayville in 1925. The collection offers glimpses of the architecture of the city of Adelaide that no longer exists including the Jubilee Exhibition Building on North Terrace and Centennial Hall at Wayville.
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Adelaide, South Australia
Australia
1897
1948
NMM 15
Shell Oil Company Collection
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Advertising signs
Petrol cans
Garages
Garagiana
Petrol cans
Petroliana
Tin Signs
Marketing
Petroleum products
Road vehicles
Signage
National Motor Museum, South Australia
Shell Australia
Shell Motor Company
Shell Transport and Trading Company
The Shell Collection (donated by Shell Australia to the National Motor Museum in 2009) includes 23 examples of petroleana documenting the history of the Shell Motor Company in Australia. This collection includes examples of collectibles such as petrol cans and tin signs.
The London-based Shell Transport and Trading Company was one of the earliest fuel suppliers in Australia. Prior to the arrival of the first Shell tanker containing kerosene in 1901 Rockefeller's Standard Oil had a monopoly. Australia was a natural market for an oil company, since the vast distances and relative prosperity meant that there was high per-capita car ownership. [np] This collection documents the changing way that Australians travelled around the country - from early days when petrol was purchased in cans from a General Store or Blacksmith to the advent of petrol pumps and service stations. In 1951, Shell was the first in Australia to introduce single-brand service stations.
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Australia
1915
1987
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SAMM 8
Ship figureheads
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Artefacts
maritime history
Photography
Sculpture
shipwrecks
Woodcarving
Artworks
Sailing boats
Sculpture
figurehead
shipwreck
Star of Greece
figureheads (ships)
Photography
shipwreck artefacts
Port Adelaide Institute
Port Adelaide Nautical Museum
South Australian Maritime Museum
Vernon Smith
This collection of seventeen ship's figureheads originally adorned the bows of sailing vessels that visited Australian waters between 1836 and 1940.
The South Australian Maritime Museum has a collection of seventeen ship's figureheads-- carved wooden sculptures which ornamented the bow of a sailing vessel. Fourteen of the figureheads are on display in the museum and three kept in storage. This is the largest collection of ship figureheads in the Southern Hemisphere. The figureheads were sourced and acquired by the Vernon Smith, the Honorary Curator of the Port Adelaide Nautical Museum over a period of fifty years. Most have excellent provenance and well documented chain of ownership, including photographs of the figureheads displayed in the homes, gardens and hotels Smith retrieved them from. The oldest in the collection is from the Ville de Bordeaux, (1836) while more recent figureheads include the Garthneill (formerly Inverneill) built in 1895 Glasgow, and the Glenpark built 1897 in Glasgow. The collection also includes the Star of Greece, tragically wrecked off the coast of Port Willunga in July 1888
The collection has great aesthetic significance; they are beautiful examples of an ancient and highly specialised form of maritime art. Figureheads date back to Phoenician times (500 BC) and were created to protect vessels and their crew. They became a symbol of the ship and were invested with superstitions. They were modelled after generic figures, saints, or relatives of the owner or captain. This figurehead collection is of state and national significance. Most of the figureheads are from 19th century sailing ships that carried cargo and passengers between Adelaide and the United Kingdom. They were crucial in provisioning and sustaining the early colony of South Australia and have direct relevance to the Bond Store where they are displayed. Many of the figureheads were retrieved from shipwrecks and relate to significant historical events. South Australia's rugged coastline is littered with shipwrecks, and the figureheads help tell this story of maritime disaster. This collection is significant in terms of the history of the Port Adelaide Institute and the Port Adelaide Nautical Museum established in the 1870s. The Nautical Museum acquired handicrafts and mementos from sailors who docked in the Port as well as other artefacts relating to South Australia's maritime history. Honorary Curator Vernon Smith actively searched for these figureheads, locating them in private homes, yards and sheds. He documented this search and because of this, the figureheads are well provenanced with a recorded chain of ownership.
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Canada
Port Willunga
South Australia
Port Adelaide
France
United Kingdom
1836
1940
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SAMM 2
Ship model collection
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AJ McFarlane
Herbert Croker
John Tulloch
Keith Le Leu
Port Adelaide Institute
Port Adelaide Nautical Museum
Robert Sexton
South Australian Maritime Museum
craft working
model ships
Models
Design models
small scale models
half model
Henry Croker
McFarlane
model making
ship model
South Australia
model ships
Scale models
This collection comprises over 180 ship models including builders' half models, sailor-made models, shipping agency models, construction models, working models, exhibition models, and model ships in bottles. The collection, which includes contemporary models, dates from the mid-nineteenth century.
This extensive collection of ship models was acquired by the Museum through a number of means. The large majority come from the Port Adelaide Institute, established in 1876, later the Port Adelaide Nautical Museum. Others significant models come from the private collections of model makers Herbert Croker and John Tulloch and maritime enthusiast and collector Keith Le Leu. The collection also comprises donations from Port Adelaide boat builder AJ McFarlane and other private donors. The earliest model, Micmac, dates from approximately 1844 while the most recent models date from the 1990s. A comprehensive survey of the model collection was conducted by Robert Sexton, a retired engineer and model maker, in 1997.
The collection showcases the craft of model making and includes models from some of South Australia's finest model makers including Herbert Croker who specialised in working steam models, seaman John Tulloch, and Jack McFarlane whose family owned boat building yards in South Australia from 1869 until the present. The builders' half models donated by boat building families provide insights into the now rare trade of wooden boat building and illustrate how models were intrinsic to vessel construction. Many of the models were created by seafarers and are fine examples of traditional sailors' crafts. They also reflect their makers' intimate knowledge of and attachment to, the vessels they sailed on. Most of the models represented in the collection either voyaged to South Australia or worked in its waters. Steamships, clippers, windjammers, ketches and whalers have been superseded by other vessels and these finely detailed models accurately capture the configuration and operation of these historic vessels.
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South Australia, Australia
1844
1990
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SAMM 14
Ship portraits
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Artworks
Oil paintings
Watercolour paintings
Boats
Ink painting
maritime history
oil painting
Painting
Pen drawing
Pencil drawing
portraits
ships
shipwrecks
Watercolour painting
Charles Henry Moore
Frederick Dawson
George Bourne
George Frederick Gregory
Harold Dalton Hall
Port Adelaide Nautical Museum
South Australian Maritime Museum
Charles Moore
Frederick Dawson
George Bourne
George Frederick Gregory
Harold Dalton Hall
ketch
liner
oil painting
ship portrait
sketch
watercolour
drawing (art)
marine accidents
Oil paintings
paintings
portraits
shipwrecks
souvenirs
vessels (watercraft)
watercolours
The Museum holds an extensive collection of ship portraits in oil, watercolour, pen and ink, and pencil. Most are by South Australian marine artists and capture the ships and ketches that worked in local waters. The collection includes over forty nineteenth century ship portraits, many by notable local marine artists such as George Bourne, Frederick Dawson, and George Frederick Gregory. Twentieth century artists represented in the collection include Harold Dalton Hall and Port Adelaide based artist, Charles Henry Moore. Most of these works were transferred to the Museum from the Port Adelaide Nautical Museum, an institution with origins that stem back to 1872.
This collection comprises detailed representations of historic ketches, windjammers and passenger liners. Along with ship models, they enable audiences to understand the configuration and function of these historic but now redundant vessels. The collection includes twenty-three watercolours by George Bourne (1851 - ) an itinerant artist who shifted between Western Australia and South Australia, painting a number of finely executed watercolours of barques, brigs, schooners and ketches in South Australia during the 1880s. It is one of the most comprehensive collections of Bourne's work held by any Australian institution. The collection comprises sixteen watercolours by Frederick Dawson who worked as a painter of ships from the 1890s to the 1920s. Dawson taught in Port Adelaide and captured some of the most significant coastal traders and ketches working in South Australian coastal waters. Early twentieth century artists include South Australian marine artist and model maker Harold Dalton Hall (1881 - 1946) who worked in oil, watercolour, pen and ink. Harold joined the South Australian Navy and worked on the colonial naval vessel Protector as a cabin boy in 1894. While Dalton Hall undertook some training with Adelaide art teacher James Ashton, he was largely self taught. His paintings are distinctive in the use of rich colours and his attention to detail. Charles Henry Moore was a clerk with the Adelaide Steamship Company in Port Adelaide and executed a number of pencils sketches on paper of ships at sea during the early twentieth century. The museum holds sixteen of his works.
The portraits represent some of the most famous vessels that operated in South Australian waters. Prior to the advent of photography, portraits often provided the only visual record of ships. Artists were often connected with the ships they depicted or commissioned to paint them as portable souvenirs for ships' crews, families and owners. Some portraits were executed by sailors who served on these vessels and these romantic if naïve depictions reflect their deep sentimental attachment to their homes at sea. The portraits depict some of the most significant ships in South Australian maritime history including the colonial naval vessel HMC Protector, the record breaking tea clipper Thermopylae and the ill-fated Star of Greece. Over 800 shipwrecks litter the South Australian coastline and several of the portraits capture maritime tragedies including the sinking of the Star of Greece off Port Willunga in 1888. These works are often the only visual record we have of maritime disaster and while not painted during the event, reflect contemporary reportage and provide insights into how deeply those tragedies resonated in the wider community. The collection includes a rich selection of work from some of South Australia's most prolific and talented marine artists including George Bourne, Frederick Dawson, Harold Dalton Hall, and Charles Henry Moore.
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South Australia
Port Adelaide, South Australia
1840
2000
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SAMM 3
Shipwreck collection
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Admella
Clan Ranald
Dutch
maritime archaeology
maritime safety
Nashwauk
relics
ship fittings
shipwreck
Star of Greece
Artefacts
migration
Settlement patterns
ships
shipwrecks
water transport
coins
Dinnerware
Figures
Furniture
medals
Personal effects
Department of Environment and Heritage
Gavin Berecry
South Australian Maritime Museum
immigration
shipwreck artefacts
shipwrecks
This collection of over 300 pieces of shipwreck material includes ship fittings, cargo, crockery, personal possessions, coins, furniture, medals and figureheads from shipwreck sites. It dates from mid-seventeenth century Dutch shipwrecks on Australia's coastline to more recent wrecks in the 1960s.
The Museum has a substantial collection of artefacts connected with Australian shipwrecks with a focus on South Australia. The Museum is custodian of the Gavin Berecry shipwreck collection acquired over many years at dive sites across Australia. Gavan Berecry (1940- 1993) was an amateur diver who salvaged material before the introduction of the Historic Shipwrecks Act (1976). This material was transferred from the Department of Environment and Heritage to the museum in 2006. The collection includes ephemera such as certificates of bravery issued to those who assisted in rescue efforts, artefacts commemorating shipwrecks and their victims, and published narratives of these maritime tragedies.
More than 850 vessels have been wrecked in South Australian waters since European settlement in 1836. The shipwreck collection helps explore this significant part of South Australia's maritime history and includes artefacts from some of the state's most dramatic and publicised wrecks including the Star of Greece (1888), the Nashwauk (1855), the Clan Ranald (1909) and the Admella (1859). The personal possessions salvaged from migrant ships - coins, clothes and jewellery - provide insights into the lives and aspirations of people travelling to a new land, while ship fittings and furnishings - lamps, taps, crockery - reveal something of life onboard these vessels. Salvaged cargos hint at the crucial importance of shipping in provisioning the colonies and exporting the produce that kept them solvent. Their cargos help tell stories of trade, community need, and growth in the province. Although the chances of perishing in shipwreck during the nineteenth and twentieth century were statistically slim, shipwrecks were an obsession - a saga of real people caught up in extraordinary events. Rescue efforts captivated the colonies, myths and stories flourished around shipwreck sites, and wrecks such as the Star of Greece and Admella were the catalyst for major changes in South Australia's maritime safety. The collection includes relics from early Dutch ships such as the Vergulde Draeck (1656) and provide insights into the great European trading syndicates (such as the Dutch East India Company) that explored sections of Australia's coastline well before the French or British.
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Netherlands
South Australia, Australia
1650
1960
DIR 1
South Australian Centenary Celebrations photographic collection
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associations
celebration
Ceremonies
groups
pageants
Parades
South Australia
South Australian history
Glass plate negatives
History SA, South Australia
This sub-collection of the South Australian Government Photographic Collection (c.1890-1957) comprises 245 images of South Australia’s 1936 Centenary celebrations.
The images cover the activities and events held throughout 1936, including the decorating of buildings, statues, trams and trains, and the holding of special conferences, re-enactments, parades and pageants across the state. Five images show Aboriginal South Australians on floats during the Pageant of Progress, the grand finale of the state’s year-long celebrations. These five images represent the presence of Aboriginal people when Matthew Flinders explored the South Australian coastline in 1802, the landing of Governor Hindmarsh, and at the time of the Proclamation in 1836.
This collection of photographs gives valuable insights into celebrations that were designed to highlight South Australia’s achievements during its first century of British settlement. The photographs capture important events in which the public participated including the Centennial Exhibition at Wayville Showgrounds, the children’s Pageant of Empire at Adelaide Oval, the Pageant of Progress through Adelaide, and the re-enactment of the 1836 landing and Proclamation at Glenelg. Many other events are also featured in the collection. The images illustrate the various social, cultural, sporting, educational, economic, religious, political and historical elements and attitudes that shaped life in South Australia at the time.
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Adelaide, South Australia
Australia
1936
1936
DIR 7
South Australian Government Photographic Collection (c.1890-1957)
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Department of Lands
Glass plate negatives
Photographs
South Australia
State Government
Glass plate negatives
History SA, South Australia
The South Australian Government Photographic Collection (c.1890-1957) consists of 14,000 images. A small number of images in the collection predate 1890. These are generally reproductions of earlier line drawings rather than contemporary photographs. The images were produced by the Department of Lands who was responsible for the official photographic record of South Australia at that time.
The collection broadly documents sixty-seven years of government activities, state celebrations, and the growth of industry, trade and townships between 1890 and 1957. The collection includes 288 Frank Hurley images showcasing the state as part of its 1936 Centenary celebrations, as well as images of country shows and field days, educational institutions, hospitals and nursing, railway stations and infrastructure, shipping and ports, and the River Murray.
The South Australian Government Photographic Collection (c.1890-1957) is a collection of images that were taken by the Department of Lands photographic branch to record government activity, achievements and state celebrations over a sixty-seven year period. For a fee, photographs were also taken for other government departments for use in annual reports and parliamentary records. Over the years the collection also became a repository for government commissioned photographs including those taken by Frank Hurley in 1935 for the State's Centenary Committee to record the State after 100 years of European settlement (1836-1936). They are an excellent record of South Australia at work and at play, and recorded within the collection are ceremonial events, day-to-day progress of major public works and the growth of townships, ports, industry and trade.
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Australia
South Australia
1885
1957
DIR 5
South Australian Railways collection
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History SA, South Australia
Locomotive engines
Locomotives
Railway carriages
Railway cars
Railway ephemera
railway equipment
Railway fare tables
Railway signs
Railway tickets
Railway timetables
Trains
railway equipment
Railways
Transport
The South Australian Railways Collection consists of 30 rolling stock and over 130 objects relating to the transport of people and freight by train in South Australia between 1886-1978.
The rolling stock includes steam and diesel locomotives, carriages and state cars. Other items include timetables, souvenir programs, rule books, rates for movement of merchandise and livestock, clocks, badges, signs, seals, and furniture and dining ware from the state cars.
South Australia had the first railway network in the British Empire to be government owned and run. South Australian Railways built and operated most of the railway system throughout the state, which grew rapidly from 1856 when South Australia’s first steam railway connected Adelaide and Port Adelaide. Many railways underpinned economic development in the state, including small lines operating to regional ports for the movement of ore and grain.
At its peak in the 1960s South Australian Railways had over 6000 kilometres of line open for use. Annually, passenger journeys numbered over 22 million and over 4 million tons of goods and livestock were conveyed. An increase in freight and a decline in passenger journeys to 12 million by the mid-1970s signalled a shift in rail transport for South Australia.
In 1975, the State Transport Authority of South Australia took over Adelaide’s suburban rail lines. In 1978 the need for a nation-wide standard gauge network (South Australia’s rail network operated on three different gauge lines: narrow, standard and broad) saw the state-based lines of the South Australian and Commonwealth Railways amalgamated into the Australian National Railway Commission.
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Some of the rolling stock is on loan to, and display at, the National Railway Museum in Port Adelaide. Access to all other collection items held by History SA is by appointment only.
Adelaide
South Australia
1886
1978
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MM 15
State Weapons Collection
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17th to 20th century
Ammunition
Cannons
Daggers
Firearms
South Australia
Swords
Colonel Light
Governor Gawler
Migration Museum, South Australia
Sporting Arms Company (Sportco)
weapon accessories
weapons
weapons
weapons
The Migration Museum manages the State Weapons Collection on behalf of History SA. It has been built up by donations and purchases over many years and is a melding of collections previously held by earlier government departments.
Many of the earliest weapons were part of the Historical Relics Collection transferred from the Art Gallery of SA. The collection is also believed to include items from the old School of Mines. More recent sources (other than private donations) include various police firearms amnesties and a few non-military items from the Army Museum of South Australia. The collection now includes a range of weapons including longarms and handguns; swords, daggers and bayonets and a variety of accessories and accoutrements. Both military and civilian items are included, as well as items of wide cultural origins. The collection does not contain any Aboriginal weapons, these being considered the province of the expertise within the South Australian Museum.
Some of the weapons are of a rare design, some are artistically flamboyant, some are worn and damaged and some are in superb condition, while many are important links to the history of South Australia. Also included are the arms of explorers, local police and volunteer military forces, as well as a number of weapons manufactured or retailed within the State. These feature some gems - Colonel Light's sword, Governor Gawler's travelling pistols, First World War souvenirs captured by local Australian Imperial Force (AIF) battalions, some recreational target rifles of the German settlers and a good representative collection of the products of the Sporting Arms Company ('Sportco'), manufactured in the southern Adelaide suburb of St Marys. There are also examples of weapons from other areas of Australia and other countries. It is the most extensive and comprehensive state owned collection of weapons in South Australia.
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South Australia
Australia
1600
1699
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MM 12
Surveying Collection
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British Settlemen
Colonel William Light
South Australia
surveying
Colonel William Light
Migration Museum, South Australia
Documents
surveying equipment
surveying
Surveying (Geography)
A collection of objects related to the surveying of South Australia and to the surveyors who worked here during the 19th century. Many of these objects form a sub-collection of the Historical Relics Collection.
A number of the objects relate to South Australia's first Surveyor General, Colonel William Light. These include surveyors' chains and the first plan of Adelaide, drawn up to Light's instructions. Another highlight of the collection is 'Poeppel's post', the original marker used in 1880 by Augustus Poeppel to mark the intersection of the boundaries of South Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland.
The history of Adelaide as a 'planned city' and the broader history of South Australia's British settlement under the Wakefield system make surveying of particular importance to South Australia's history. This collection preserves some of the tools used by early surveyors and records the development of official boundaries, as well as the understanding of and changes to territory administered by the South Australian colonial government. This collection complements other History SA collections, in particular a large collection of surveying instruments held at the South Australian Maritime Museum.
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Australia
South Australia
1795
1805
NMM 11
Technical Motoring Collection
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Cars
Motor vehicle engines
motor vehicle parts
Cars
Road vehicles
Motor car accessories
Motor car components
Motor car engines
Motor cars
Motor vehicle engines
motorcycle accessories
motorcycle components
Vehicle components
Motor Vehicle Components
Motorcars
Motorists Aids
Parts
National Motor Museum, South Australia
The National Motor Museum's technical motoring collection comprises examples of various vehicle components.
These items have been retained within this specific collection as a reflection of the technical development of the motor vehicle. Many of these items are associated with the technical development of the motor vehicle i.e. engines, and its peripherals i.e. lighting. All items in this collection contribute to a greater understanding of how many technical developments have occurred in parallel, and in many instances, in isolation from one another but have been brought to together by insightful individuals or companies in order for the motor vehicle itself to develop. A further area of collection are those peripheral items related to the motorcar which have been produced in order to make motoring easier for the motorist, such as luggage holders etc.
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Australia
1895
2010
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SAMM 17
The Grain Trade: windjammers and Cape Horners
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barque
Cape Horners
Erickson
grain race
Pamir
Passat
windjammers
cereals
Commerce
crews
films
model ships
Personal effects
Photographs
sailing ships
souvenirs
Commerce
films
Grain
model ships
Photography
ships
sailing ships
South Australian Maritime Museum
The collection includes personal papers and memorabilia, diaries, sailors' crafts, ship portraits, and ship models covering one hundred years from 1850 to 1950. The collection also includes original photographs documenting life on board Pamir and Passat in 1949 and memorabilia from the now defunct South Australian Cape Horner's associations including Cape Horners' uniforms, penants, badges, publications, and film footage and voyage souvenirs.
This collection includes a diversity of objects and images linked to the last windjammers and those who crewed them. In the early twentieth century, only a few trade routes remained viable for the world's big sailing vessels. The Australian grain trade was one and it was on this route that Finnish ship-owner Gustaf Erikson made his name. He invested in second-hand barques or 'windjammers' and eventually became the owner of the world's last fleet of commercial sailing ships. The voyages from South Australian wheat ports on the Yorke Peninsula to Europe received much media coverage. In Britain, people bet on which ship would make the fastest voyage of the year, coining the expression 'Grain Races'. The windjammers Passat and Pamir left South Australia's Port Victoria on 28 May 1949 loaded with grain for Europe. They were the last commercial sailing ships to ply one of the world's longest trade routes. Original photographs of life on board these two ships during the last great grain race in 1949 form part of the museum's collection.
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Yorke Peninsula
Aland Islands
Finland
South Australia
Port Adelaide
Cape Horn
1850
1950
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SAMM 16
The Mosquito Fleet - South Australia's ketches
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Annie Watt
boatbuilding
ketch
mosquito fleet
Nelcebee
Painting
Photograph
regatta
ship fitting
drawing
model ships
Navigation
Navigation equipment
Oral History
Photography
Sailing
Watercolour painting
yachts
drawing (art)
ketches
model ships
navigational instruments
Photographs
watercolours
Frederick Dawson
George Bourne
South Australian Maritime Museum
ketches
Photographs
The collection includes hundreds of objects connected with the ketch trade in South Australia and individual ketches that worked out of Port Adelaide between 1850 and 1990.
The collection includes sentimental sketches and drawings of ketches by sailors and captains who crewed them as well as a fine selection of watercolour portraits by notable maritime artists George Bourne and Frederick Dawson. Five hundred photographs dating from the late nineteenth century until the present capture ketches in Port Adelaide and other South Australian ports. Oral histories have been recorded with individuals who owned or crewed the ketches and the collection encompasses personal memorabilia (clothes, log books, sketches, sailmaking kits, sailors crafts, masters certificates) linked to ketch hands, captains and owners. There is an extensive collection of fittings and navigational instruments with clear provenance from specific ketches including chronometers, ships logs, barometers, bells, name boards, flags, pennants, lights, lifebuoys, ships wheels, compasses and a figurehead (Post Boy 1874). The collection includes several ship models of ketches as well as builders' half models crafted by boat building businesses in the Port. Port Adelaide was famous for its Regatta, first held on the Port River in 1838, two years after the colony's proclamation. The ketch race was a key event in the carnival and the museum holds regatta badges, photos, programs and newspaper cuttings celebrating this event. Almost all the ketches that worked in South Australian waters between the 1870s and 1980s are represented in the collection. The museum holds substantial collections relating to the Nelcebee, Annie Watt, Falie and Leillateah.
Ketches were integral and unique to South Australia's maritime history. They connected city and country before the advent of road and rail, carrying farm products, grain and minerals to the city and shipping general produce to rural ports. The ketch fleet peaked in the 1880s and 1890s when more than seventy ketches and schooners traded out of Port Adelaide. During the twentieth century the fleet witnessed constant change and reinvention in a struggle to remain viable. By the 1920s competition from steamers and improved road transport saw most ketches fitted with auxiliary engines. They numbered thirty in the 1950s and three decades later, the last two working ketches, Nelcebee and Falie, were retired from service. The collection captures the growth of the ketch industry, ketch construction, the ketch trade and the rural economy, life and work on the ketches, ketch owners and families, the decline of ketches and the last ketch workers, and ketch culture - the ketch regattas, South Australian cultural memory, nostalgia, and the role of ketches in port and community identity. The iron hulled ketch Nelcebee, imported in sections from Scotland in 1883, is the most significant object in the collection. Nelcebee was assembled as an iron steamship by Tom Cruickshank at Birkenhead and worked as a tug and cargo carrier before being converted into a two-masted ketch in 1927. The vessel carried cargo between Adelaide and Kangaroo Island until the 1980s. Nelcebee is dry docked and slowly undergoing restoration. The Annie Watt, a wooden ketch built in 1870 and in operation until 1971 is in museum storage.
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Yorke Peninsula
Port Adelaide, South Australia
South Australia
1850
1990
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SAMM 15
The Port Adelaide Collection
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Commemorative objects
Flags
harbours
Maritime unions
photographers
Photography
ports
recreation
water transport
harbours
leisure
Personal effects
photographic studios
Photographs
ports
shipping industry
souvenirs
Trophies
wharf labourers
Keith Le Leu
Port Adelaide Historical Society
Port Adelaide Nautical Museum
South Australian Maritime Museum
Waterside Workers Federation
local business
Port Adelaide
shipping
wharfie
The Museum holds thousands of items that help document the history of Port Adelaide from its inception in 1836 to the current day. The collection comes from maritime enthusiast and collector Keith Le Leu, the Port Adelaide Historical Society, the Port Adelaide Nautical Museum and private donors whose families lived and worked in the Port.
The collection includes extensive collections of material from organisations with a unique connection to the Port - such as the Port Adelaide Institute later Nautical Museum. This rich collection was established in the 1870s and provided the core of the South Australian Maritime Museum collection. There are collections of personal memorabilia from some of the Port's significant and eccentric personalities. Memorabilia, flags, placards, and ephemera from social events tell the story of the local Waterside Workers Federation. Trophies demonstrate the different leisure pursuits in and around the Port River, including swimming and regatta races. Thousands of photographs from the 1870s until the present document the history of the Port from a harbor creaking with masts and cranes to one almost devoid of vessels. 1500 images from the Port-based Bond Studios, provide intimate portraits of the people who eked out a living in the Port.
For most of its history Port Adelaide had a reputation as a unique community - rough but honest - that reflected the character and lifestyles of the people who worked there: the wharfies who lumped cargo, the seafarers that passed through, the ketch hands who worked the fleets of wooden vessels that buzzed across the shallow gulfs, and the publicans, preachers, and prostitutes that vied for hearts and minds. The collection encompasses material that reflects the Port's shipping history - the ketches, passenger liners, windjammers and tugs that jostled for space in the harbor, objects associated with shipping agents and significant shipping firms such as the Adelaide Steamship Company, and material associated with wharf workers, the Waterside Workers Federation, Seaman's Unions and Mission to Seamen. It includes objects linked to the history of the local Masonic lodges, churches, high street businesses, timber merchants, mills, bond stores, sporting clubs, working men's institutes, nautical instrument manufacturers, ship chandlers, sail makers, transport services, hotels and celebratory events in the Port such as the annual Port Regatta. The museum is the main repository for material documenting the social history of Port Adelaide in Australia. Through these objects and images it is possible to construct a picture of the Port at various periods in history. The harbour was surveyed by Colonel William Light in 1836 and the Port's population and industry swelled and subsided with the economic tides. It thrived during the 1870s, struggled during economic recession in the 1890s and 1930s, recovered, and then declined with changes in shipping and the impact of globalization after the 1970s. Every enterprise, business, bond store, hotel, institute, sporting club, church, mill and smelter in the Port was intrinsically linked to the ships, liners and ketches that docked at its wharves and the fortunes of the shipping trade. The collection chronicles key events in the Port's history - waterside workers strikes, maritime tragedies (fire on the City Of Singapore) and documents events unique to the Port such as regattas, king tides, and building projects. It also documents how world events such as world war, economic recession and epidemics impacted on this community.
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Port Adelaide, South Australia
South Australia
1836
2010
NMM 4
Tin Sign collection
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Advertisements
Advertising signs
Advertisements
Marketing
Road vehicles
Signage
Advertising
Garagiana
Marketing
Petroliana
Tin Signs
National Motor Museum, South Australia
A collection of tin signs advertising various motoring-related products. Tin signs comprise a steel sheet which is usually stamped to create embossed lettering and/or an image, then coated with a vitreous enamel finish in a variety of colours. These signs advertised a variety of motoring related items and accessories, including petrol, tyres, sparkplugs etc.
It was quickly realised by the purveyors of various motoring-related goods and services that in order to advertise their products along the sides of roads, and particularly at petrol or service stations, they required a robust yet visually striking medium. Tin signs, with their vitreous enamelled finish were selected because they were able to be mass manufactured, could be easily pressed in to a variety of shapes and had a robust finish which required little to no care or attention and yet remained bright and attractive. [np]The tin sign collection illustrates the variety of products required by early Australian motorists. It also documents early motoring-related businesses with signs commonly displaying a company's corporate colours, logos, and/or a visual representation of the product itself. These tin signs were gradually phased out with the introduction of neon or fluorescent signage, which had the advantage of being easily seen at night.
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Australia
1905
1965
DIR 6
Toy collection
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1800s
Children
Collecting
Current day
Home life
leisure
Material culture
Play
Baby toys
Beach toys
Childrens books
dolls
Educational toys
Electric toys
Nautical toys
Novelty toys
Promotional toys
Pull-along toys
Puzzles
Ride-on toys
Soft toys
Teddy bears
Tin toys
Toy aeroplanes
Toy blocks
Toy furniture
Toys
History SA, South Australia
Migration Museum, South Australia
National Motor Museum, South Australia
South Australian Maritime Museum, South Australia
A collection of toys dating from the 1800s to the current day, supplemented by photographic material including early twentieth century portraits of children and their toys.
The collection primarily consists of children’s toys dating from the early 1800s to the current day. The toys include well-loved rag dolls and teddy bears, tin-plated model cars, buses and trucks, working toy boat models, dolls furniture, beach toys, board games and puzzles, rocking horses, tricycles, souvenirs and shipboard games. The collection ranges from locally handcrafted wooden toys to internationally mass produced tin-plated, corgi and matchbox model cars. The collection contains dearly loved childhood companions with rich stories such as a toy train given to a ten year old boy on the day his family escaped the Nazi invasion of Vienna in 1938, and a set of Chinese handcrafted dollhouse furniture brought back from the Boxer Rebellion in 1901. Not simply demonstrative of childhood leisure pursuits, the collection also includes toys used by health nurses in the mid twentieth century to assess childhood development. Similarly, toys for ‘grow-ups’ feature in the collection and range from serious collector items such as the 1929 Clockwork Golden Arrow model car, to shipboard entertainment games such as coits and deck board racing games. The collection is supplemented by photographic material including early twentieth-century images of returned soldiers working in an Adelaide toy factory, approximately twenty studio portraits of children and their toys dating from the 1920s to 1940s, and fifteen images of a toy display at the 1943 Royal Adelaide Show showcasing locally made stuffed dolls, teddy bears, wooden trains and rocking horses.
This is an important collection relating to childhood play and toy culture in South Australia. The collection also represents the shift in toy manufacturing from the early cottage industries, through to local manufacturing and eventually to the mass-produced and marketed world toy trade.
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South Australia
Adelaide
Australia
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MM 2
Underwear Collection
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Athletic supports
Bloomers
Bodysuits
Boxer shorts
Brassieres
Breast flatteners
Briefs
Bust improvers
Bustiers
Bustles
Camiknickers
Camisoles
Chemises
Clothing
Combinations
Corselets
Corset Laces; Hosiery
Corsets
Crinolines
Drawers (underpants)
G-strings
Garters
Girdles
Jockstraps
Knickers; Underwear Components
Long johns
Maternity clothing
Panniers
Pantihose
Petticoats
Sanitary belts
Singlets
Stockings
Suspender belts
Suspenders
Tights; Menstrual products
Underbodices
Underpants
Underwear
Union suits
bras
Clothing
Crinolines
foundation garments
Singlets
Underwear
Costume
Fashion
Lingerie
South Australia
Underwear
Women
Costume
Migration Museum, South Australia
The Migration Museum's extensive costume collection features many items of underwear, mainly for women. The collection consists of everyday underwear as well as that worn for special occasions and medical treatment. The collection includes corsets, knickers, crinolines, combinations, stockings, camisoles, girdles, and petticoats. The strength of the collection is its 19th century garments; however, it also includes a selection of key pieces from the early to mid-20th century.
The majority of the Migration Museum's costume collection constitutes outerwear. However, its underwear collection is significant in that until recently underwear has generally not been considered to be as important a social statement as outerwear. Undergarments were also more likely to suffer from staining and wear and tear, traditionally making them less desirable for collection and display. [np] The underwear collection primarily constitutes garments for women and thus reflects historical attitudes towards women's bodies, such as restraint and control of movement, divisions between private and public lives, the influence of feminist movements, and concepts of health and body image. The collection also reflects fashion trends, especially those which required the body to be shaped to suit outer garments. The collection forms the basis of the Migration Museum's education program When Smalls Were Large, which explores these themes. [np] The Migration Museum is keen to expand the collection so that it is more representative not only of men and children, but also South Australia's cultural diversity.
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South Australia
Australia
1845
1979
NMM 1
Vehicles Made in South Australia
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Cars
motorcycles
Cars
Motorbikes
Road vehicles
Manufacturing
Motor Body Building
Motorcars
Motor cars
National Motor Museum, South Australia
This collection comprises a variety of South Australian-made cars, motorcycles and components and spans over 100 years of motoring in South Australia. Donated largely by various companies and individuals, these vehicles were all manufactured and/or assembled in South Australia. The collection includes the earliest example of a steam powered vehicle manufactured in South Australia (the 1899 Shearer steam carriage), right up to a 2008 Mitsubishi 380 (one of the last off the assembly line at Tonsley Park before the plant closed).
This collection documents the evolution of the automotive manufacturing industry in South Australia during the twentieth century. Motor vehicles have been made in South Australia since 1899, when agricultural implement maker David Shearer built a steam powered wagon. South Australia, with a strong tradition of horse drawn vehicle manufacturing, was well placed to develop a motor vehicle industry at the start of the 20th century. The collection provides insight into the emergency measures taken by the Commonwealth Government during the First World War to limit the importation of motor vehicles as well as further Commonwealth Government requirements for local content in motor vehicles which were to be sold in the Australian market. [NP] The collection reveals the development of working relationships between local body builders and major international vehicle manufacturers. This ensured the viability of the local manufacturing industry which became responsible for producing most of the significant components for vehicles in Australia by the early 1950s. Some specialised vehicles were still imported as large kit sets (known as Complete Knock Down or CKD) with the vehicle being assembled in South Australia and utilising fewer local components. [NP] More recent additions to the collection document the significant fall in the number of South Australian vehicle manufacturers after a series of financial crises and mergers with overseas companies.
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Adelaide
1899
2009
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SAMM 4
Vessels collection
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Annie Watt
Black Bottle
boat
canoe
dinghy
James Hardy
ketch
Nelcebee
sharpie
surf boat
surf ski
tug boat
Yelta
canoes
dinghies
fishing boats
ketches
Motor boats
Rescue boats
Rowing boats
Sailing boats
Surf rescue boats
Tugboats
watercraft
James Hardy
South Australian Maritime Museum
maritime history
water transport
vessels (watercraft)
The vessels collection comprises 25 large and small vessels linked to South Australia's maritime history. The vessels date from the late 1800s until as recent as 2000.
Most of these are in dry dock or storage. The oldest complete vessel in the collection Nelcebee was shipped in parts from Scotland in 1883 while the more recent vessels were still in use in 2000. The collection includes small craft such as surfboats, surf skis, fishing cutters, sharpies, dinghies, lifeboats, punts, canoes and a naval whaler, and large craft such as the steam tug Yelta (on water), the wooden ketch Annie Watt, and the iron hulled diesel ketch Nelcebee. The collection showcases the craft of South Australian boat builders and includes some fine examples of vessels with specific connections to South Australia such as the ketches that transported cargo over the shallow waters of the Gulf.
The collection includes examples of the ketches that were so integral to South Australias's maritime history. Ketches evolved in South Australia to suit local conditions. Their shallow draft was ideal for the shallow bays of regional ports. For over 100 years this collection of small craft known as 'the mosquito fleet' plied South Australia's waters, doing the work of present day land rigs and bulk cargo handling vessels. More than in any other state, this form of coastal shipping played a lasting and vital role in linking outlying rural areas to urban centres. The collection includes one of Australia's most significant historic vessels. The coastal trader Nelcebee, launched in 1883, worked until the 1980s. It is the oldest powered ship in Australia and has had a longer, continual association with South Australia than any other vessel. Within the collection is the James Hardy collection - sailing vessels associated with one of the state's and Australia's most accomplished sailors. Hardy was a world champion sailor, dual Olympian, Admiral's Cup victor and three times America's Cup challenger. The Museum holds the first sail boat built by Hardy when he was a 14 years old (Nocroo) in 1947 and Tintara, the sharpie Hardy built for the Olympic trials in Melbourne in 1956. The collection also includes the 505 sailing dinghy Black Bottle which Hardy sailed to victory in the International 505 championship off the coast at Brighton, South Australia in 1966. Several of the vessels were constructed and maintained in the boat building yards that hugged the Port River from the nineteenth century. These vessels demonstrate the finely honed skills of traditional wooden boat builders who passed on skills from generation to generation. Many of these vessels worked or were moored in Port Adelaide and are some of the last physical remnants of a once thriving commercial port. The collection includes examples of sailing craft from different eras providing insights into how maritime technology evolved and changed. Certain forms of sail technology were refined or popularised in South Australia. Lightweight sharpies with shallow drafts were suitable for South Australia's gulf waters and were embraced with enthusiasm after the Sunny South sail race tragedy off Glenelg in 1932. The collection includes examples of both Sharpies and Herons - lightweight sail dinghies that were particularly popular in this state. Surf skis and surf life boats help tell the story of beach culture and life saving clubs in South Australia.
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South Australia.
Port Adelaide, South Australia
1870
2000
NMM 6
Veteran Vehicles collection
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Cars
Cars
Road vehicles
Manufacturing
Materials
Motor Body Building: Motor Car Production
Veteran Cars
Motor cars
National Motor Museum, South Australia
This collection takes its definition from The Fédération Internationale des Véhicules Anciens (FIVA) which defines 'Veteran vehicles' as those built between 1905 and 1918 anywhere in the world. The National Motor Museum has collected a number of pre-1918 Vehicles, primarily through the generosity of local Australian donors.
This collection reflects the relative wealth of car owners at the beginning of the twentieth century, as motoring was by and large the preserve of the wealthy until higher volumes of cars were made available through mass production - the most famous of which was Henry Ford's Model T, released in 1908. The veteran vehicle industry was dominated by a large number of small, highly skilled manufacturers producing small numbers of vehicles several of whom exported vehicles from the UK and Europe (such as De Dion Bouton and Renault) and the United States (such as Oldsmobile and Ford). The collection demonstrates an early opulence in Australian motoring, with almost all vehicles utilising expensive materials such as brass and nickel along with intricate finishes in wood and leather. The collection reflects the broad range available, from the mass produced, to those which were fitted with their own individually built bodies such as the Daimler Laundelette.
Some material included in this collection may be subject to copyright
Australia
1905
1918
NMM 7
Vintage Vehicles collection
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Cars
motorcycles
Cars
Motorbikes
Road vehicles
Manufacturing
Motor Vehicle Production
Motor cars
National Motor Museum, South Australia
This collection takes its definition from the Fédération Internationale des Véhicules Anciens (FIVA) which defines 'Vintage vehicles' as those built between 1919 and 1930 anywhere in the world. The Museum's permanent collection contains a variety of cars and motorcycles.
This collection of motor vehicles reflects the changing social dynamics of the era after the First World War. Returned soldiers' exposure to motor vehicles during war service stimulated the mass motoring market from 1919. The period ends with the onset of the Great Depression, which was followed by the Second World War. Both events had a negative impact on the production of motor vehicles for the consumer market. [np]This collection represents the second generation of mass produced vehicles, reflecting a larger move within industry to this form of production. Manufacturing techniques were improved - such as greater use of metals and increasing use of simplified coatings i.e. paint, nickel and eventually chrome, increasing productivity. The standardisation of body styles (i.e. tourer bodies) combined with increasing knowledge of materials capabilities - such as deep draw steel for solid roofs - also served to make production more efficient. However there was still some retention of traditional carriage building crafts and skills, particularly in the higher priced makes and models. During this period the Australian car manufacturing industry continued to grow, but was still some way away from producing an 'All-Australian' car. This goal was not realised until 1948, when Holden released the 48-215.
Some material included in this collection may be subject to copyright
Australia
1919
1930
SAMM 5
William Russell sailmakers' collection
Don Lucas collection
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Don Lucas
sailmaking
ship chandler
William Russell
Don Lucas
South Australian Maritime Museum
William Russell
maritime history
Sailing
sails
tools
Nautical equipment
sail making tools
sailmakers
sailmaking
sails
ship's chandleries
tools
Nautical equipment
Occupation-based equipment
Sailmaking equipment
Woodworking tools
The collection comprises four hundred items of general shipping equipment, mainly associated with ships chandlery, and almost two hundred sailmaking tools and pieces of machinery from the William Russell sailmakers collection. The collection dates from the early 1800s until the close of the William Russell sailmakers loft in 1985.
William Russell was a prominent Port Adelaide figure who established a sailmaking, chandlery and provisioning business in St Vincent Street in 1870. The collection was donated to the museum by Don Lucas in 1985-86, whose family owned and operated the Russell establishment for several generations. Most of items were collected by Lucas or his father, Don Lucas senior. These include whale bone rubbing tools, needles and needle horns, thimbles, stitch prickers, fids, leather sewing palms, malin spikes, clews, bees wax, eyelets, blocks , tape measures, canvas hole punchers, awls, shears, pliers, cutting blocks, sewing machines as well as documentation connected with the day-to-day operation of the business. The collection of general shipping equipment is diverse and includes fire buckets, dead eyes, lamps and lanterns, life jackets, belaying pins, ship telegraphs, nautical instruments, binnacles, oars, bottles, ships logs, shackles, hooks and floats.
This collection is from one of Australia's oldest continuously operating sail makers and ship chandlers. This comprehensive collection comprises practically all tools used in the William Russell sailmakers loft from the 1870s until 1985. Sailmaking was an essential trade in the days of sail and continued to be significant even when sail had declined. Sailmakers worked ashore usually in sail lofts and worked closely with riggers. While most seamen were expected to be able to sew, the repair sails and rigging, rope work and knot making was considered a skilled trade. Sailmaking was one of the maritime trades integral to a working port. Up until the 1930s South Australia relied on small, sail powered ketches to transport goods to and from settlements beyond Adelaide. Technology changed slowly in sailmaking and many of the tools used by William Russell to make sails continued to be used when the Lucas family took over the business. These jealously guarded traditions were passed on through the apprenticeship system and tools of trade also tended to be handed down through the generations. This collection is a complete representation of a maritime trade that is increasingly rare. The other material donated by the Lucas family relating to the ship chandlers business illustrates the great diversity of work which had to be undertaken in order to sustain a viable business in a relatively small port such as Port Adelaide.
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South Australia
Port Adelaide, South Australia
1800
1985