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• 365 catalogue records including material that has been collected from Local, State and Federal elections related to South Australian candidates. Also includes State and Federal referendums; Local elections 1879 – 2010; State elections 1893 – 2014; Federal elections 1901 – 2010; Referendums 1911 – 1999; State referendums 1965, 1970, 1982. Includes details of candidates, electorates, dates of elections, slogans. Ephemera are everyday items such as theatre posters and advertising flyers, not produced for sale. Their intrinsic value is in the information they provide about social life, the development of industries (for example, printing or paper making), and the provision of services or aspects of cultural change. Ephemera may be the only printed record of an organisation, event or activity. 2
• Historical information about commercial buildings and ownership in the Main Street of Mount Gambier including date information, owner and or company name, business type and newspaper article dates and references to the images held in the Les Hill Photographic Collection. Information is based on research of publicly available information. 1
• Military survey maps from the Australia 1 inch to the mile series held in the State Library of South Australia’s map collections. This map series was originally prepared by the Australian Section Imperial General Staff and later by the Royal Australian Survey Corps. These topographic maps at scale 1:63,360 include roads, railways, towns, rivers, creeks and farms, and some cadastral detail. Relief is shown by contours and spot heights. This dataset is a selection from the Australia 1:63,360 series of the 20 map sheets that cover South Australia. Including editions and variations the State Library’s holdings of SA coverage totals 49 map sheets provided in JPEG and PDF versions. 1
• Selection of images (53) from the State Library of South Australia’s Bradman Collection. Sir Donald Bradman is regarded by many as the greatest batsman in the history of cricket and was one of Australia's most revered sporting personalities. From the late 1960s he donated much of his personal collection of cricket memorabilia to the State Library of South Australia, in total more than 150 items including trophies, bats, balls, tape recordings, photographs and cricketing apparel. 1
• Set of detailed fire insurance maps from the State Library of South Australia’s map collections. The map set covers part of the City of Adelaide, South Australia and was surveyed and drawn 1911-1914 by John Reid Ferguson for the Fire Underwriters' Association of South Australia. Scale approximately 1:480. Includes parts of North Terrace, King William Street, Rundle Street (Mall), Adelaide Arcade, Gawler Place, Grenfell street, Pulteney Street, Hindmarsh Square, Pirie Street, Flinders Street and Hindley Street. Shows land use including building usage, some street numbers and business names. This dataset consists of 21 map files in JPEG & PDF versions. 1
• The photographs (approximately 165) were taken by Townsend Duryea, a noted photographer of colonial South Australia. Duryea was active in South Australia 1855-1875. He and his brother were the first known photographers to work in areas of South Australia outside Adelaide. Duryea is particularly known for his panoramas of Adelaide and portraits of surviving original European colonists of South Australia. 1
• The photographs (approximately 660) were taken by Ernest Gall, a South Australian born photographer active from the 1880s to the 1920s. In 1899 he was described as a ‘distinctly modern professional photographer’. Gall is noted for his photographs of civic events, portraits and photographs showing Adelaide’s development into a growing modern city. 1