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Item Open Access Rodeo for Sidney Kidman’s 75th Birthday [videorecording]([s.l. : On-Screen Productions, 2002], 1932-09-03)Original newsreel footage of the rodeo held on on 3 September 1932 on Jubilee Oval to celebrate Sidney Kidman’s 75th bithday. Attended by over 45,000 people, the rodeo was organised by his employees with stockmen attending from Kidman’s properties. It remains Australia’s largest public birthday party ever for a private citizen. Les Daley composed a poem Kidman’s Boys for the occasion. The Jubilee Oval was the home of Adelaide’s agricultural shows until they moved to the Wayville show grounds. It was just to the north of the then brand new Barr Smith Library and is now part of the University of Adelaide grounds. The Barr Smith Library, the Cloisters, the Royal Adelaide Hospital nurses quarters and the former South Australian Institute of Technology can clearly be seen in the background.Item Open Access Address to the Honorable Thomas Elder from the University of Adelaide(2006-11-16T06:10:08Z) University of AdelaideThe text reads as follows: On the first page: To The Honorable Thomas Elder Dear Sir, The Members of The Adelaide University Association beg to offer you their grateful thanks for your munificent donation of twenty thousand pounds for the purposes of the University. While they do not forget the princely gift of Mr Hughes which laid the basis of this Institution, they regard with equal satisfaction the like contribution from yourself as securing its future prosperity and extension. On the second page: They congratulate the colonists of South Australia that there have risen up from among them men, who appreciating the advantages of a high liberal education for the youth of the Colony, have in thankfulness to that good Providence which has prospered their honorable labours in the acquisition of property resolved to mark their grateful sense of the success accorded to them, by devoting a portion of their wealth to the benefit of the community at large, and of generations yet unborn. They trust that both yourself and Mr. Hughes may be long spared to see the good fruits of your munificence, and are well assured that your names as founders and patrons of the University of Adelaide will not only live in the affectionate remembrance of the present generation, but be handed down to the grateful respect of those Students who shall hereafter receive instruction in the halls of this Institution, and under the Professors who will be appointed through your liberality. Signed by A. Adelaide, Vice President, On behalf of the Association, and Geo. Young, Hon. Secretary, Adelaide 8th December 1874