- Bib ID:
- 3583339
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- Kingston, George Strickland, 1807-1880
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Scale:
- Scale [1:2,259]. One in. to each acre. (E 138°35ʹ55ʺ--E 138°35ʹ55ʺ/S 34°55ʹ43ʺ--S 34°55ʹ43ʺ).
- Description:
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- London : J.C. Hailes, 104 Leadenhall Street, [1842?]
- 1 map : col. ; 163.2 x 122 cm., folded to 26 x 17 cm.
- Full contents:
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- Inset vignettes: Trinity Church - Revd. C.B. Howard
- Congregational Chapel - Revd. T.Q. Stow
- Government Offices
- Buildings erected for the South Australian School Society
- Government House
- Bank of South Australia.
- Notes:
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- Map of the newly founded city of Adelaide presenting a modest grid for the northern city centre and a larger grid for the southern city centre and divided by the Torrens River that flows through the middle of the city. The map includes street names and numbers and features a number of park-like squares. At the bottom of the map are reference tables to Northern Adelaide and to Southern Adelaide listing by running number the residences of important people as well as naming public buildings and private companies. An Index to the Planning shows boundaries, fences and houses/buildings by type of construction.
- A table headed Memoranda lists historical dates in the founding of the city from the act to colonise South Australia in 1834 to the residences established in Adelaide as shown on this map, dated 1st Jany. 1842. It also includes population statistics as of 1842, climate parameters, and agricultural production - figures are based on the South Australian almanack of 1842. Ground cover is shown pictorially.
- Cartouche title.
- At head of title: British Royal Coat of Arms.
- Accompanying text is dated: 8th Decr. 1842 E.J.W. & Co.
- National Library's copy at RM 1132 is annotated in penned handwriting at the bottom right corner of the sheet.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-231422559
- Subject:
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- Time Coverage:
- 1842
- Other authors/contributors:
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- Also Titled:
- This map of Adelaide, South Australia, shewing the nature and extent of every building of the city
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Artistic
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1880
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1843
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