- Owner
- Port Adelaide Library. City of Port Adelaide Enfield
- Region
- Adelaide
- Creator
- Port Adelaide Wesleyan Church
- Measurements
- 172cm x 310cm
- Historical Period/Date
- 19th Century (1870-1999 Late)/1896
- ID Number
- ESPO-054
- Classifications
- Back Stitch,Braid Embroidery,Cloths,
Physical Description
Ruby cloth with names and stylised floral motifs within a central oval and two round medallions plus a twisted border with a pattern in each corner, worked with Russian braid stitched to woollen ground. Names are machine stitched in yellow.
Theme and Purpose
Port Adelaide Wesleyan Church Rainbow Festival 1896. Made to raise funds for church repairs or possibly the addition of a steeple. Local notables signed it for a fee and then it was auctioned.
Signatures
Below are the names that have been transcribed from this object. Multiple instances of a name on one object is indicated by a bracketed number after the name. A name in bold appears on other objects. Click these names to see the other objects.
Adams, Henry
Addison, R A
Allen, Anna Maria
Allen, James
Archibald, W O
Armstrong, A E?
Asplin, Isaac Sackfield
Batchelor, E L
Batchelor, H C R
Bawden, J
Bearcroft, A?
Begg, W J A
Berry, Joseph
Bickers JP, John
Bickers, John
Bickford, William
Bishop, Henry
Blacker, W J
Blair, J B
Blancroft, M?
Blau, H
Bollen, E E
Bollen, Percival
Boothby
Bower, David
Boyce, R J
Bray, A
Bray, R
Bristow, A L
Brook, Elizabeth
Brook, Fred D
Brooker, Thomas H
Brooker, William
Brown, Duncan
Brown, F J?
Brownlow, S V?
Bumby, John W?
Burge, A
Burge, H
Burgoyne, Thos
Butler, Alfred E
Butler, C
Butler, John J
Butler, Lou?
Butler, Olive
Butler, R V
Butler, W J
Butterfield, W
Buxton, Constance V
Buxton, Harrold J
Buxton, Leland William Wilberforce
Buxton, Mabel
Buxton, Noel
Buxton, Thomas Fowell
Buxton, Victoria
Buxton, Victoria A
Caire, J W
Caldwell, Robert
Campbell, Allan
Carter, T B
Casey, John
Castle, E
Catt, Isaac C
Champion, W
Chany, F S
Chany, S
Chany, T
Chapple
Charleston, D Morley
Charleston, J
Charleston, Mary
Charleston, May
Chasfeed, J?
Chester, H A
Cleave, J
Cole, James G
Coles, E A
Coles, Jenkin
Colton, J W
Darling JP, J W
Darling, John
Davies, Fred
Dempster, James E A
Deslandes, John
Deslandes, W F
Dewhirst, E N?
Dixon, J T
Drew, George C
Duckworth, Arthur James?
Dudley, C R
Eckers, H L?
Eckers, W L
Edwards, J A?
Eustis, Bert
Eustis, G H
Evans, Arthur
Evans, R O
Fitzgerald, H G
Formby, John
Foster, R W
Fraser, R
Gill, Thomas
Goode, Chas R
Gordon, J M
Grose, Thos
Haines, Joseph
Hains, John
Hall, P (Mrs)
Hall, Wm
Hanton, F
Harry, A H
Headding, C E
Headding, Charles
Henderson, J
Hocart Jnr, Thomas
Hocart, Thomas
Hocart, W?
Hopkins, Hop?
Horton, T
Hounslow, H
Hounslow, W R?
Jacob, Lily A A
James, Elsie
James, J I
James, J T
James, Mary R
James, R P
James, Thomas A
Jenkins, J G
Jenkins, Jenny Mary
John, W D
Johnson, Alfred J
Jones, A B
Jones, David (Wesleyan)
Jones, John S
Jones, Z H
Jurs, F
Jurs, H
Jurs, J C G
Jurs, Wm Chapman
Kelly, R?
Kestel, R W O
Kirby, J C
Knowles, Robt
Lathlean, W
Le Messurier, Alfred
Le Messurier, E
Lean, J N
Leask, J
Leaver, F
Leech, G V
Leishman, E
Leng, Thomas P?
Little, E V
Lloyd, R
Loan, James Hugh
Lun, J W?
MacGillivray MP, I
Madge, I J
Malin, Sidney
Marlin, Marian
Marston, Anne E
Marston, Fred
Martin, James
Matthew, F
Matthew, Thomas
McAuley, Eliza
McColl, Jas R
McGraith, T
McLachlan, J
Mclennan, C
Meipers, Harry I
Meyers, Henry
Mitchell, E E
Monkhouse, J
Morphett, W
Morris, Chas R
Morrison, G?
Mort, John Chas
Motteram, A
Mursell, A R
Neill, J C
Newton, Harold T
Norhaf, Thomas?
O'Loughlin, Lawrence
Ottoway, John
Pike, F G
Pittard, E
Pittard, M
Pudney, Charles
Randell, Alice
Randell, William
Rann, John
Reed, William
Reid, Malcolm
Rhodes, F M
Rofe, Clara E
Rofe, J G
Rofe, James
Rofe, W L
Rofe, Will T
Rose, Alice G
Rose, Arthur
Rose, Lillian G
Sanders, Eliza A
Sanders, Henry
Saunders, W H
Selby, Geo C H
Shaw, John
Shorney, B M
Shorney, E A
Shorney, E G
Shorney, H
Sinclair, Jas H
Skinner, W H
Smith, G W
Stephenson, J B
Stirling, J Lancelot
Stone, A J
Stubbs, Albert
Sweeney, John
Tainsh, W
Tassie, Chas D
Teague, H Henwood
Teague, M C
Thain, W
Thomas, John
Thompson, Henry W
Thomson, B
Todd, Ada Jillian
Todd, Charles
Tucker, C W
Wald, Clara
Wald, James I
Wald, M
Walker, E
Walker, Theo J
Warrington, A G?
Waterman, A
Watts, Laura
Webb, W Buckley
Weman, H
Whitburn, M
Widdop, F C
Williamson, E
Wilson, Geo S?
Woolnough, R
Wright, C J H
Wright, P H