Oceania (continent)
Found in 4945 Collections and/or Records:
[Preparing ceremonial costume], 1960
Film negatives with some matching prints, mostly of trees and flora, some of people and buildings, originally kept in three negative wallets from O'Brabant, Lae Photography. The prints with captions on the reverse have been listed.
[Preparing food outside a fale], 1903
Smithson has pencilled '27/12' next to the following notes: '47. Samoan oven - first fire and heat stones, when these are hot spread out food to be cooked place on with leaves over. No Banquet without pigs. Many pigs kept as pets. Led about with a string'.
[Preparing kava, the Samoans' national drink], 1903
Preparing to fire the feu-de-joie after the proclamation at Motu-Motu, November 10th, 1884
285 x 230 mm. The third of a sequence of three pictures taken from the same viewpoint, covering the ceremony at Motu-Motu, the correct order being plates Y3084A/21, Y3084A/39, Y3084A/3. A detachment of sailors is grouped at the right, with rifles raised, with marines standing around the flag and spectators sitting on the ground around the flagstaff.
Presentation of food by the natives at Waivaka Town, 1910
Half-plate. [No print]. [Missing].
Presentation of food by the natives at Waivaka Town, 1910
Half-plate. [No print]. [Missing].
'Presented by the Premier of New South Wales in May 1936', 1936
Album of captioned photographs.
Preservation Inlet [West Coast Sounds], 1885
194 x 144 mm. A view looking across the inlet, with a mountain visible in the distance beyond the far shore. Preservation Inlet lies at the extreme south western tip of the South Island and is now part of the Fiordland National Park.
Press Cuttings, 1921 - 1922
Major James Boosé became Secretary of the RCI in 1909 and was associated with the development of the branches during 1909-10. He made three overseas tours, and after his retirement in 1915 owing to ill health, two more as travelling Commissioner before his final retirement in 1922.
Press cuttings, 1914 - 1957
The diaries were written when Wood was chiefly in Nyasaland and the Seychelles. They include a few inserted sketches and photographs. There is an accompanying set of press cuttings and miscellaneous papers.
Priest's carved wooden dishes, 1910
[Sir Everard's collection].
Prime Canterbury lamb in the cooling room : freezing works near Christchurch, New Zealand, 1910
Half-plate (landscape format). [Showing carcasses hanging].
Prince Albert Statue, Sydney, 1885
140 x 190 mm. A front view of the statue with two men standing in front. Erected in Hyde Park in 1866.
Prince Alfred Collegiate School, Adelaide, 1890
260 x 195 mm. A front view of the school, with pupils standing in front. The school was opened in 1878, and named after Prince Alfred (later Duke of Edinburgh), who visited Adelaide in 1867.
Prince Alfred Hospital, 1895 - 1900
202 x 147 mm. A view of the hospital from Missenden Road, Camperdown, showing a brick building with stone facings. The hospital was incorporated in 1873 as a gesture of gratitude for the saving of Prince Alfred's life, who was the victim of an assassination attempt while in Sydney. The land for the hospital was granted by the university, and the hospital is used by the university's medical students. The hospital was opened to patients in 1882.
Prince of Wales' Feather, Pohutu, and Waikorohihi Geysers, Whakarewarewa, 1900 - 1929
A caption identifies the photographer as [James?] Iles, who was active in New Zealand from 1870 to 1929.
Princes Bridge, Melbourne, 1888 - 1901
204 x 142 mm. A view of the iron bridge, set on stone supports, which was built in 1888. The St. Kilda Road crosses the bridge which is situated just to the west of the Domain and the Botanical Gardens. This photograph is taken from Alexandra Gardens looking across the bridge to the north side of the city.
Prince's Street, Church Hill, 1870 - 1879
277 x 183 mm. View of a terrace of modest two storey sandstone houses with dormer windows. The house on the right is dated 1849 on the cartouche above the roofline. The brick houses which continue the terrace to the left are of later date. In the centre of the group is James Lucas' Auckland Hotel, and next door to him the shop of G.E. Coy.
Princess Theatre-Grand Hotel, 1888 - 1889
201 x 127 mm. A view looking towards Spring Street, on which the theatre and hotel are built. This extravagant theatre was completed in 1887.
Princess Theatre Melbourne, 1885 - 1901
202 x 180 mm. A view of the theatre from the other side of Spring Street. The building, a mixture of styles and decorations, was designed by William Pitt, and was built in 1886-7, including such attractions as electric lighting and a roll-back ventilating roof.
Principal street for ships, showing Custom House, 1885
228 x 174 mm. Looking up the ‘main drag’ from Nabukalou Creek in 1885. The Customs buildings are at the extreme right.
Private Residence near the source of the Avon. Near Christchurch, New Zealand, 1910
[No print]. [Missing].
[Prize Bull (?) Bushey Park], 1929
75 x 54 mm. A view showing a bull being exhibited by a farmer.
Probably 516A, 1963
Contains Kodachromes processed in Australia, arranged by processing number. Some items from H possibly originated in this group.
Procedure for Parliamentary Banquet, 1954
The procedure for the Women's Parliamentary Reception and Parliamentary Banquet at Parliament House, Adelaide, 23 March 1954, in honour of the Royal Visitors.