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Searcy Collection

Collection Title
Searcy Collection
Repository
State Library of South Australia
Date Range
- 1935
Description

There are just under 20,000 images in this collection currently available on line (13 April 2006). Arthur Searcy was a South Australian public servant who collected and took photographs through the first 25 years of the 20th century. The complete collection also includes images from around the world, including the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand.

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Title
Aleck King of Canowie
Type
Photograph
Date
1914
Place
Australia - South Australia
Details
Title
Botanical gardens coconut avenue
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1900
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
Details
Title
Cavenagh Street with Man Fong Lau and banyan tree on right
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1920
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
Details
Title
Cavenagh streetscape with vehicle on the left and tree on the right
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1900
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
Details
Title
A Chinese man stands in front of an arnatto crop grown near Darwin
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 30 May 1889
Place
Australia - Northern Territory
Details
Title
Displays of produce at a South Australian exhibition
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1907
Place
Australia - South Australia
Details
Title
Four unidentified men with two-horse drawn cart with fish
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1914
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Daly River
Details
Title
A garden and building of a Chinese character
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1913
Details
Title
A group of Customs staff at Port Darwin in tropical uniform, with three Chinese men
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1895
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
Details
Title
School children who attended Derby school in Western Australia
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1906
Place
Australia - Western Australia - Derby
Details
Title
Skeleton of an unidentified man who apparently died of thirst
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1914
Place
Australia - Northern Territory
Details
Title
A street parade float in Sydney
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1918
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
Details
Title
View of Darwin's Chinatown area (rear?)
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1912 - c. 1914
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston)
Details

Prepared by: Sophie Couchman

Created: 21 May 2003, Last modified: 8 June 2009