Cyclopedia of South Australia 1907-09 - H. Burgess
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The Cyclopedias that were published for most states of Australia around the beginning of the 20th Century are a vast resource of historical and biographical information on the state concerned - the people, towns, industries, professional, commercial and social institutions and much more.
They include thousands of illustrations, the larger number of these being portraits of those whose biographies are included. These are not just the rich and famous, but include a high percentage of the ordinary citizens in each community.
This CD includes facsimile images of the entire two volumes of the original 1907-1909 edition.
VOLUME 1
642 pages, 600 photographs and 500 biographies
General overview - geography. scenery, climate, geology, palaentology, mineralogy, fauna, flora,
aborigines of South Australia - numbers, tribal and social organisation, customs, rite and ceremonies etc.
History of South Australia
Legislature - Commonweatlh and state
Government, parliament and the legislature
Government departments
Legal and Judicial
Men of Mark
Consular
Defence - Naval and Military Forces in South Australia
Hospitals, medical, asylums, the destitute poor
Crown Lands, Immigration and Agriculture - lands, mines roads, fisheries, stock and brands, woods and forests, parks and gardens
Public Works - water supply, railways, tramways, harbours
Educational - library, museum and art gallery
Local government - Adelaide, Port Adelaide and various suburban councils and suburban districts
The South Australian Press
Banking, Insurance and Finance
The Stock Exchange of Adelaide
Professions - architects and surveyors, accountants
Commerce and industry
General Index to Biographies in Volume 1
VOLUME 2 - Launceston and the Northern towns
1112 pages, nearly 2300 photographs and 2100 biographies
Explorers and exploration
The River Murray
Educational - university, school of mines, collegiate schools
Ecclesiastical - various denominations and undenominational organisations
Philanthropic institutions
Industry - agriculture, pastoral, horticulture, viticulture, secondary rural industries, mining
Medical, dental, pharmaceutical
Freemasonry, friendly societies
Scientific, literary and other associations
Political organisations
Sporting and recreation
Music and darama
Health resorts
Adelaide tramways, fire brigades
Markets,
Shipping
Land agents and auctioneers
Commerce and industry
Stock and station agents
General
COUNTRY TOWNS - by region and town - occupying the major part of this volume
The Northern Territory
Broken Hill New South Wales
General Index to Biographies in Volume 1
Greatly enhanced access to Cyclopedia content
As with many other products being published under the Archive CD Books project access to the vast amount of information is now greatly enhanced The indexing of the original volumes and their general arrangement still give only limited references to the many people, places and subjects that are largely hidden in the extensive text.
NOW that is all changing. The entire text is now easily searched. And the machine read OCR text has been corrected to ensure 100% of the text can now be searched. To illustrate the value of this, the following number of returns were obtained from searching the two volumes - using the Adobe Reader 6 Search.
Sample Search Results
Names (often none or only 1 or 2 in the indexes)
- Gibson - 101
- Meredith - 63
- Williams - 140
Places (usually 1 at the most in the indexes)
- Devonport - 265
- Hagley - 46
- Longford - 321
- London - 500
- Ireland - 113
- Scotland - 160
- Yorkshire - 40
Other (usually only 1 at the most in the indexes)
- butcher - 105
- cricket - 170
- dentist - 16
- hotel - 461
- Presbyterian - 111
The entire text from the two volumes is searchable - names, places and any other words in the text or advertisements
High quality scanned images of the whole of the original book.
No. of CDs is: 1 ; Format is: PDF ; Searchable?: YES;
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