Selection of images (60) from the State Library of South Australia collections of Significant South Australians featuring selected men and women of Adelaide's North Terrace plaques. These are a selection of images from a range of subjects and other State library photo sets on Flickr and range from 1815-1951, and includes: Dervish Bejah, Cameleer and explorer Sir Donald Bradman, Cricketer Kate Boadicea Cocks, first female police constable in the British Empire Matthew Flinders, Navigator and explorer Donald Dunstan, Lawyer, reformist, social progressive and Premier of South Australia Rev John Flynn, Founded what became the Royal Flying Doctor Service Sir Robert Helpmann Dancer, choreographer, actor and director Sir Hans Heysen artist and conservationist Colonel William Light Surveyor General, South Australia Mother Mary Mackillop (now Saint Mary of the Cross), Catholic sister, educator and Australia’s first saint Sir Douglas Mawson, Geologist and Antarctic explorer Dame Roma Mitchell, Australia’s first female judge Catherine Helen Spence, Author, journalist, teacher, suffragist, political candidate John McDouall Stuart, Explorer Mary Lee, Suffragist and social reformer Mark Oliphant, Physicist, humanitarian, Governor of South Australia Thomas Playford, Longest serving Premier of South Australia Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith, piloted first aeroplane from England to Australia Charles Sturt, Soldier and explorer David Unaipon, Aboriginal leader, preacher, inventor and writer

This dataset includes 952 selected oral history transcripts from the J.D. Somerville Oral History Collection, the central repository for unpublished oral history tapes and transcripts in South Australia. The collection is intended to provide an oral record of all aspects of the South Australian experience and particularly of those who are poorly represented in documentary records, such as low income earners, people of non-English speaking background, women, and country people. The collection also provides a representative sample of the various uses of oral history, such as academic, commissioned, local history, community arts, school and family history. The transcripts are in PDF format.

This dataset contains images of more than 1000 selected maps and charts with South Australian coverage. Use in conjunction with the Flickr API https://www.flickr.com/services/api/.

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.

Photographs relating to South Australia feature localities across the state, houses and buildings, portraits, social and historical events, industry, farming, transport and more. Divided into four time periods: pre 1900 1900 - 1919 1920 - 1949 1950 onwards

Newspaper articles relating to Sir Ross Smith and the 1919 Epic Flight from England to Australia. Datasets are divided into themes of prelude to the epic flight, the epic flight and death and funeral of Sir Ross Smith. Articles are sourced from South Australian newspapers The Advertiser, Daily Herald, The Observer and The Register.

This dataset includes 45 oral histories from the project S. A. Speaks': An Oral History of Life in South Australia before 1930. The interviewees were broadly representative of the population of South Australia as it was in the first three decades of the twentieth century. 'S. A. Speaks' was a Jubilee 150 project conducted by Beth M. Robertson under the auspices of the History Trust of South Australia for two years and two months ending December 1986. The sound files are in MP3 format. The transcripts are in PDF format.

Statistical data that appears in the Libraries Board of South Australia Annual Reports.

50,000 digital photographs in which copyright has expired with bibliographic data and links to persistent URL of the digital image from the State Library of Western Australia Catalogue. We're delighted to announce this dataset was used in the prize winning GovHack 2016 competition entry, Colourful Past. https://2016.hackerspace.govhack.org/content/colourful-past The team summarized their entry thus: Colourful Past aims to create an immediate and lasting connection to our shared past, by giving you a channel to browse recorded in library or archive imagery. You’ll be directed to a set of monochrome or faded photos with a click your sense can feast on an enhanced colour version.

Hot days, warm nights, beaches, backyard cricket and Christmas celebrations are all part of summer in the Southern Hemisphere. This dataset contains 53 selected images that portray the essence of summer in South Australia. Use in conjunction with the Flickr API https://www.flickr.com/services/api/