Oceania (continent)
Found in 4945 Collections and/or Records:
Portrait and memoir of William Haines, 1857
A portrait of William Haines 'from a daguerreotype by T.A. Hill' and a description of his life in public service. The page is undated, but refers to Haines occupying the Legislative Assembly seat for South Grant in the new Parliament, which he held 1856-1858.
[Portrait of a young Maori woman], 1900 - 1920
130 x 195mm. Loose photograph.
[Portrait of E.C. (?Lucas)], 1922
97 x 132 mm. A head and shoulders portrait, mounted on card and signed 'Yours sincerely E.C. [?Lucas] 20.2.22'. Photograph by Hammer and Co., Adelaide.
Portrait of John McDouall Stuart, April 1863
[Portrait of Maori woman], 1870 - 1929
140 x 197 mm.
[Portrait of Maori woman], 1870 - 1929
140 x 197 mm.
Portrait of short-haired young woman in simple dress, 1890
130 x 200 mm. Head and shoulders portrait.
[Portrait of two young Maori women], 1870 - 1929
142 x 198 mm.
Portraits, circa 1900s
A collection of loose prints with captions on the reverse, which have been recorded as found. The photographs, which are of various sizes, are portraits of people from Africa, the West Indies and Australia.
Post and Telegraph Offices, Brisbane-Front, 1886
195 x 130 mm. The same building as photographed in Y3085C/10, but with an identical extension on the right of the picture, built in the intervening period. With a horse and cart in front of the building.
Post Office, 1870 - 1880
181 x 131 mm. A view of the Post Office, which stands at the junction of Elizabeth and Bourke Street. Built between 1859-1867, the building is seen here without the third storey and enlarged clocktower which were completed in 1889.
Post office and Advertiser Office, 1870 - 1880
215 x 167 mm. A view looking along William Street with the Advertiser office in the foreground and the Post office behind. The foundation stone of the Post Office was laid by the Duke of Edinburgh in 1867 and the building was completed in 1872.
Post Office, Brisbane-Front, 1866
232 x 160 mm. A view of the new Post Office. The post office in Y3085C/10 is now the Post and Telegraph Offices. Built by John Petrie, the first mayor of Brisbane, the Post Office was completed in October 1872.
Post Office, Sydney comp. 1887, 1875
280 x 230 mm. A view of the unfinished building from George Street. The fenced-off land to the left, along which the building extends, was later to become Martin Place. This monumental building, which took over 20 years to complete, was designed by James Barnet. Work started in 1866. The tower, not yet built in this photograph, was completed in 1887.
Postcard Collection
Postcards of Busselton, Western Australia 1925
Collection of photographic postcards, 138 x 85 mm., with 'Busseldon [sic] W.A. 1925' written on the back of each. Busselton is a holiday resort on Geographe Bay, 149 miles by rail south of Perth. Though settled by the Bussell family in 1832, it made little progress until it received an impetus, about 1921, under the group settlement policy of the State Premier, Sir James Mitchell. The photographs are not captioned and the following descriptions are derived from their content.
Postcards of Fiji, 1920 - 1929
Postcards of New Zealand and Canada, 1900 - 1929
Potholes at Nardabunna rock hole, 1908 - 1909
120 x 92 mm. A view showing the entrance to potholes in a fault ina rock formation. In the foreground is a seated figure (partially inside the entrance to a pothole) with a large plate camera on the ground beside him. Photograph by H.W.B. Talbot. Negative No. 568.
Poverty Bay - Waipawa Valley from the head of the Bay, 1870
253 x 192 mm. A view looking over the valley from a thickly vegetated hillside, with two men sitting in the foreground. Gisborne, situated at the north shore of the Bay, was the spot where Captain Cook first set foot on New Zealand soil in October 1769. He gave the Bay its name after his welcome there, having to kill four Maoris after a hostile reception.
Powder magazine, 2006
200 x 150 mm. modern copies of original prints.
Power Screen, 1937 - 1939
Decorative screen made for Arnold Danvers Power (1875-1959), bookseller and philanthropist, and bequeathed by him to the Royal Commonwealth Society, of which he had been a fellow. Power had travelled around the world three times, and during 1937-39, he commissioned the artist Heather Child to record his voyages on a screen, illustrated with incidents described in his diaries. It is made of three hinged panels of sycamore wood, each measuring 2 feet by 6 feet.
Powerful forces and great art in these Australian rocks, 1973
250 x 165 mm. Aboriginal rock paintings at the Escarpment on the Arnhem Land plateau, Northern Territory. Produced by the Australian Information Service.
Pract. Chemistry Class Rm, 1895 - 1900
205 x 153 mm. A view looking down the length of the classroom, with work benches, chemicals and various apparatus.
Practical Physiology Classroom, 1895 - 1900
205 x 151 mm. A view showing workbenches with various experimental equipment, looking towards the blackboards at the front of the classroom.