The jacket was given to Mr Frederick Budge of Farina, South Australia, by a Muslim (‘Afghan’) trader he knew who went on a pilgrimage to Mecca, at some time in the 1890s. 

This festival is widely recognised as one of the great international arts festivals, while its accompanying Writers’ Week is the largest literary event of its kind.

George Ian Ogilvie Duncan, a lecturer in law at the University of Adelaide, drowned on 10 May after being thrown into the River Torrens. Rumours spread that officers from the vice squad engaged in ‘poofter bashing’ had killed Duncan.

Packaging and remnats from firecrackers stocked at Gordon Sym Choon's Union Street shop. 

American aeronaut Thomas Gale made South Australia’s first successful aerial ascent in June 1871

The tragedy of war was compounded by disturbance on the homefront in wartime and post-war reconstruction activities.

Every year between 1938 and 1975 Adelaidians showed pride in their city by beautifying it with mass displays of flowers on National Flower Day.

In 1910 thousands of people lined the Torrens to see the carnival of lavishly decorated boats in the first Henley-on-Torrens Regatta

The Adelaide Mosque, the oldest in Australia, has been the centre of Islamic festivals since the 1890s

Honorary medal awarded to Antonio Giordano by the World Federation of Italian Press Abroad.

Wooden post used to mark the point where the boundaries of South Australia the Northern Territory and Queensland meet.

Adelaide’s very first Gay Pride March took place on Saturday 15 September 1973. 

This teapot, painted with colourful  images of dragons and birds, was part of a tea set for sale at the China Gift Store.

A well-worn teddy who's not afraid to show the stuff he's made of. 

Model - Speed Boat with Motor.

Before the poppy became the recognised flower for war memorials the violet, in South Australia, was the 'symbol of perpetual remembrance'.