Oceania (continent)
Found in 4732 Collections and/or Records:
York, Western Australia, 1910
200 x 150 mm. A general view over the town, with cultivated plots between many of the houses. York lies about 60 miles east of Perth.
Young woman with garland of flowers round her neck, 1890
140 x 195 mm. Head and shoulders portrait. The photograph is marked 'Andrew 120.'
Yowie Bay, Port Hacking, 1885
190 x 140 mm. A coastal scene, with trees almost to the water's edge and a rowing boat with three men aboard.
Yule Island from Delena, Hall Sound, 1884
285 x 230 mm. A view of the beach, with canoes and two children on the beach. Elevala Island in the harbour fills most of the horizon.
Zeehan Station : New Year's Day crowd going to the races, Tasmania, 1910-01
[Crowd standing on the platform].
Zig Zag, 1885
190 x 140 mm. A view of the Lithgow zigzag, a spectacular piece of railway engineering by John Whitton, on the descent from the Blue Mountains. The viaducts, opened in 1869 and cut through heavy rock, allowed the railway to descend on a gradient of 1 in 42 by three parallel sweeps across the face of the ravine. The zigzags were replaced by tunnels in 1910.
Zig-Zag Railway-near Sydney, 1888 - 1889
178 x 110 mm. A view of the Lithgow Zig-Zag, a massive piece of railway engineering by John Whitton, which enabled the railways to descend on the far side of the Blue Mountains on the Western Line from Sydney. These viaducts were opened in 1869.