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/.

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

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.

Selected sheet music (100 individual songs) related to or published in South Australia. The collection is particularly strong on the genre of patriotic songs from World War One and sentimental ballads. Includes full colour scan of the sheet music and additional contextual research.

This dataset includes 5,799 selected photographs related to ships and shipping. Note that images in copyright might not be viewable outside the State Library of South Australia.

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

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

Heroes of the Great War Indexing Project - over 17,000 references to notices published in the South Australian newspaper The Chronicle between 1915 and 1919 under various headings including 'Heroes of the Great War', 'Heroes of the Empire', 'Died on Active Service' and ‘Biographical’. The notices were placed by relatives and friends of World War I service personnel who died, or were wounded, or were decorated. Some newspaper printing errors have been corrected using official sources. This is a subset of the Heroes of the Great War data limited to those entries (3062) that contain a portrait. Data set also includes the reference (date, page and column) within The Chronicle, brief biographical details including name, age, rank, battalion and occasionally place of death. Also included are names of relatives and place of residence in South Australia by street address, suburb or town. For the full data set, see Heroes of the Great War Chronicle Newspaper 1915-1919.

Selected images (89) demonstrating South Australia’s relationship to water.

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.