| Description | Album of materials dating between 1885 and 1898, with the spine title "Adelaide without us 1894".
The first one-third of the album contains letters, photographs, cartoons, programmes and cuttings from newspapers referring to persons and events in South Australia.
The letters include two from George Kennion, Bishop of Adelaide; one of 25 June 1894 marked "confidential" regretting Lord Kintore's impending departure from South Australia and thanking him for his help in Kennion's attempt to obtain a bishopric in Britain, and the second of 10 July 1894 stating that he is prepared to accept the bishopric [of Bath and Wells] offered to him by Lord Rosebery. A pencilled comment on this letter reads "a study in self-deception!"
This section also includes a series of six pen-and-ink drawings of scenes on the Wanganui River, drawn by J.T. Stewart on 1 November 1885, all bearing the stamp of the Public Works Office, Wanganui, and a very large (folded) coloured lithograph titled "Views of Port Augusta S.A. 1892" by Rider & Mercer, lithographers, Ballarat, showing views of buildings and other scenes in Port Augusta.
The photographs include a panoramic view of "the road to Mount Lofty, view of Adelaide in the distance", the "road to Happy Valley", portraits, and views of rooms in Government House and other domestic interiors.
The remaining two-thirds of the album contains photographs including:
Two pages of photographs of Fiji and Fijians
Portraits of sailor and pets aboard HMS Royalist, 1893, one marked "Taken by Captain Davis"
Two large views of Blue Lake, Mount Gambier, South Australia
Two large photographs of the ceremony of the laying of the foundation stone of St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide on 17 September 1890. The stone was laid by the Earl of Kintore as Grand Master of the Freemasons of South Australia.
Group photograph with the title "Our First Melbourne Cup", including Lord Kintore and Lord Carrington
Group photograph taken outside Government House in 1890, including Lord Kintore, Sir William Robinson, and Sir Henry Norman
Twenty pages of mainly official photographs and plans of the Happy Valley waterworks, with one page of photographs of the Clarendon vineyard and Onkaparinga bridge. The photographs and plans date from 1893 and 1894, and most carry the stamp of the Engineer-in-Chief's Office, South Australia.
Landscape folio, dark green half morocco |