Resources & Links
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Archival Collections
The State Library of South Australia
The State Records of South Australia
Adelaide City Council Archives
National Archives of Australia
National Library of Australia
The Architecture Museum, University of South Australia
The Migration Museum of South Australia
Online Databases
Trove, National Library of Australia
Adelaidia
The SA History Hub
The History Trust of South Australia
Historical Society of South Australia
SA Memory
Passengers in History, South Australia
Links to Articles & Images Related to the Unemployed Camps
Stephen Nova, ‘The Artist of the River, The Unemployed Camps on the Torrens River, 1930 -
1938’, National Library of Australia, 2018, https://www.nla.gov.au/blogs/trove/2018/10/25/the-artist-of-the-river
Huts of the Unemployed by the River Torrens, 1937,
State Library of South Australia
https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+9689
A Shack constructed of recycled material on the Torrens River, located behind the Adelaide Zoo, The Mail, 1937
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/55932479
Picturesque River Camp (Antonio's Hut), The News, 1932 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/129324153
Village of Forgotten Men, The Mail Newspaper, 1933
Photo of John Borg, a Maltese migrant who shared the tent with Antonio enjoys a quiet read, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/59387242
Moving Day for Shack Dwellers, The News, 1938
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/131559491
Antonio Cini Committed for Sentence for breaking into Agriculture School, 1936
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/74328369
Doesn't Want to Leave River Bank Home, The News, 1937
Interview with Antonio Cini
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/131566126
Riverside Dwellers, The Advertiser 1933
Photograph of Antonio's Decorated Hut
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/46998498
Books
Ray Broomhill, ‘Unemployed Workers, A social History of the Great Depression in Adelaide’, University of Queensland Press, 1978.
Patricia Sumerling, ‘The Adelaide Parklands: A Social History’, Wakefield Press, 2011
Oral Recordings and Articles
York Collection, National Library of Australia
Oral history interviews by Barry York with the Maltese community about their migrant experiences in Australia as well as articles and books for further reading
Brian and Monica Attard interview by Barry York
Contains eyewitness accounts of the unemployed camps on the Torrens River in South Australia during the Great Depression years.
Open source Software
Audacity: Digital audio editor and recording application software
GIMP 2.8: Image Manipulation Program
StoryMapJS: Location narrative mapping and authoring tool
Pencil2D: Animation Software
Apache OpenOffice: Office productivity software suite
HandBrake: Transcoder for digital video files
Open Source Initiative (OSI): Information about open source practice and communities
