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Three photographs of Brisbane Cathedral
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085Q
Scope and Contents
Three loose black and white photographs of the interior of the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, with pencilled captions on the reverse.
Dates:
1920
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Three photographs of Mount Perry, Queensland
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085S
Scope and Contents
Three mounted albumen prints, measuring approximately 195 x 140 mm.Early Mount Perry. Today a very small rural centre, Mount Perry had at the turn of the century a population of around 4000, making it one of the largest ten or twelve towns in Queensland. Originally the area was given over to scattered sheep runs but in 1869 copper was discovered and miners flocked to the area, many directly from Cornwall but also from other mining areas in Queensland. The success of operations...
Dates:
1872
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Three photographs of Papua
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3084B
Scope and Contents
Three loose prints, all signed, dated and captioned on the reverse. 'Baiaua' is possibly Bariana, south of Collingwood Bay. Sir Henry Wickham was an explorer and pioneer planter all over the Equatorial Belt, and planted rubber over Central and South America, India and New Guinea. He listed his recreation in 'Who's Who' as 'Pioneer Rubber Planting.'
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
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Three photographs of Walhalla, Victoria
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087H
Scope and Contents
Three loose black and white prints showing scenes in and around Walhalla. All are captioned on the photograph, and also have handwritten explanatory captions on the reverse. Photographed by W Lee.
Dates:
1913
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Tour of the South Seas
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309C
Scope and Contents
An album containing mounted photographs of various sizes showing scenes in Australia, Tonga, Samoa and Fiji. The collection of amateur photographs is by members of the tour and professional work mainly by Burton Bros. of Dunedin (but see a note on the photography below). The most interesting and historically important photographs are those showing scenes from, and participants in, the Samoan Civil War of 1899. There is also a good portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson, and pictures of...
Dates:
1899
Conditions Governing Access:
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Transport in Fiji
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3091G
Scope and Contents
Collection of photographs illustrating a typescript thesis 'Transport in Fiji' by W.A.T Bowles submitted to the Institute of Transport in November 1969. The prints vary in size from 175 x 125 to 195 x 245 mm. Numbers 6, 9, 20-21, 23-25, 28-43, 46, 49-50 are by W.A.T. Bowles; numbers 2 & 3 by Nitin Lal, Fiji Visitors Bureau; numbers 4-5, 7-, 10, 12-13, 18-19, 45, 47-48, 52-55 by Rob Wright, Public Relations Office; number 26 by the Public Relations Officer; 14-15 and probably 16 by...
Dates:
1969
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Travels in South Asia and Australia
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3024A
Scope and Contents
The album contains a mixture of original photographs, hand-coloured postcards and clippings. Most have manuscript or printed captions. Subjects include travel, hunting, scenes of natural beauty, natural products, and notable places or buildings.
Dates:
1904
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Trip to Australia and New Zealand 1888-1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A
Scope and Contents
An album containing mounted photographs of various sizes, by various photographers, with either handwritten captions or captions on the prints. The captions may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. The photographs were bought during a tour to Australia and New Zealand, breaking down into geographical units thus: 1-8 Suez Canal and Aden; 9-127 Australia; 128-135 New Zealand; 136-137...
Dates:
1888 - 1889
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Under many flags: my pilgrimage
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 15
Scope and Contents
An account of a journey undertook in 1953-1954 to Hong Kong, Thailand, Japan, Manila, North Borneo, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast and the U.S.A. The volumes are undated, but the last entry in the epilogue is dated 1957.
Dates:
1957
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Vailima from the air
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309993B
Scope and Contents
156 x 110 mm. Photographer unknown. An aerial view of the former home of Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa.
Dates:
1955
Conditions Governing Access:
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Victorian railways
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087E
Scope and Contents
An album containing sixteen watercolours, comprising of a title-page (which continues: 'Chief Mechanical Engineer's Branch. Principal types of rollingstock. Scale 1/8 inch = 1 foot') and sixteen pages of lithographed plans and elevations showing various types of carriages and locomotives in use on the Victorian Railway System. Each drawing is accompanied by a brief text giving measurement, number of each model built and other technical specifications.
Dates:
1902
Conditions Governing Access:
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Victorian scenery
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087L
Scope and Contents
Album of albumen prints, each photograph is mounted on a card with letterpress description on the back, headed 'Views of Victoria (general series)', though the front cover of the album is lettered 'Victorian scenery.' The state Library of Victoria contains a copy of 'Views of Victoria 1877-1879', which contains 60 photographs. This RCS collection, though numbered up to 37, has five gaps (15, 16, 19, 27, 34).
Dates:
1877 - 1879
Conditions Governing Access:
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Views in Australia, Egypt, Aden, Asia and other places chiefly circa 1908-1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)
Scope and Contents
The collection was originally housed in seven boxes, four of which were specially made with individual slots for slides. These were numbered 3, 6, 10 and 11 and the remaining boxes were unnumbered. Presumably these formed part of a larger collection, but nothing is known of the original owner or the fate of any other boxes. For conservation reasons, the collection has since been re-boxed. The captions given are normally those which appear on the slides themselves. They have been used as...
Dates:
1908 - 1915
Conditions Governing Access:
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Views in Fiji
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3091A
Scope and Contents
An album containing mounted albumen prints, most measuring approximately 230 x 175 mm., and mostly captioned in pencil. Photographs are probably by the firm of Besse & Black. The album cover is stamped 'H.R.' beneath the title and it is suggested by Dr. E.M. Stephenson that this refers to Hugh Hall Ragg, engineer, boiler maker, general smith and government contractor in Fiji at this time.Besse & Black: it seems likely that the photographs were selected individually from...
Dates:
1885
Conditions Governing Access:
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Views in India, circa 1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022P
Scope and Contents
An album containing prints measuring 69 x 95 mm, with handwritten captions. The captions have been used as titles and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. The flyleaf is inscribed 'To Lieut. Colonel G.S. Walker, I.M.S. with compliments and thanks from the photographer. 1901.' George Lemon Walker (29.7.1849-31.5.1901) was born in Kingston, Ontario and served in the Madras Medical Service...
Dates:
1901
Conditions Governing Access:
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Views in Melanesia
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309A
Scope and Contents
An album containing mounted prints, most measuring approximately 205 x 150 mm. Photographs by Bishop Henry Hutchinson Montgomery, Rev. Dr. Henry Welchman and Rev. Arthur Brittain. A handwritten key at the front of the album provides the captions used in the catalogue, which have been recorded as found. A passage from the preface of H.H. Montgomery’s ‘The light of Melanesia’ in which many of these photographs are used as illustrations, contains a note on the photographers:‘The...
Dates:
1892
Conditions Governing Access:
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Views in Melbourne and New Zealand
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089B
Scope and Contents
A miscellaneous collection of photographs, of various sizes, mounted on card. Most prints are captioned; titles given to uncaptioned prints are in square brackets. There are also 42 numbered captions on card (some appearing to have been cut from the prints?), in an envelope kept with the collection. Photographs are by Charles Nettleton, Herbert Deveril and possibly William Meluish. The geographical locations break down thus:1-3 Views of Dunedin, c.1858-60, possibly by William...
Dates:
1858 - 1880
Conditions Governing Access:
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Views of Bendigo
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087C
Scope and Contents
A commercially produced portfolio containing fifty-two mounted prints measuring approximately 180 x 125 mm., showing views in and around Bendigo and giving a detailed photographic coverage of the city and its suburbs. Each print is pasted to an elaborately printed mount with a decorative border, 'Views of Bendigo' and the print number at the top, and a title and explanatory key beneath the picture. Beneath each plate is also printed 'N.U. Claire Photo. Sandhurst' and 'Welch.Typo.' Some...
Dates:
1875
Conditions Governing Access:
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Views of Hobart
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3088D
Dates:
1850 - 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
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Views of New Zealand
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089F
Scope and Contents
An album containing coloured 40 half-tone reproductions, 37 monochrome reproductions and 15 original black and white prints by various photographers. The coloured reproductions measure approximately 245 x 180 mm. In the catalogue the titles are given but no further details. The same procedure is followed in the case of the monochrome half-tones, which are of various sizes. The original photographs are mostly panoramas consisting of more than one print.
Dates:
1915
Conditions Governing Access:
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Views of Port Darwin Harbour and Gold-mining District
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3083A
Scope and Contents
Ten mounted prints, uncaptioned and measuring approximately 205 x 140 mm. showing views of the harbour and town, and of the gold mining districts inland.
Dates:
1890
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Views on Mr C B Fisher's Northern Territory Cattle Stations
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3083B
Scope and Contents
Ten mounted prints, uncaptioned and measuring approximately 205 x 140 mm.
Dates:
1890
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Village settlements: River Murray
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082B
Scope and Contents
A collection of fourteen prints mounted on board, with printed captions, most prints measuring 270 x 220 mm. Photographer unknown. Beneath each photograph is printed 'Surveyor General's Office, Adelaide. A. Vaughan. Photo-Lithographer.' Vaughan became photo lithographer for the Survey Department in 1892 and although it is unlikely that he was also the photographer it indicates that the work was done on behalf of a Government department. Possibly Lindt was the photographer.The...
Dates:
1892
Conditions Governing Access:
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Wairakei, New Zealand
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089U
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints, measuring approximately 75 x 95 mm and captioned in the negative. The prints are a commercial souvenir set and are contained in a printed envelope sub-titled 'The wonderland of thermal grandeur'. The views show waterfalls, rivers, geysers and boiling lakes. Some have additional handwritten notes on the reverse. Photographs (sold) by Wairakei Store.
Dates:
1950
Conditions Governing Access:
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Waitomo Caves, New Zealand
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089V
Scope and Contents
A collection of views measuring approximately 60 x 80 mm, captioned in the negative. The prints are a commercial souvenir set contained in a printed envelope. Photographs by the New Zealand Government Tourist and Health Resorts Department.
Dates:
1950
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library