Oceania (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 4945 Collections and/or Records:
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The Gladstone Hotel-Lane Cove River (Headquarters Xmas 1888), 1888
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/118
Scope and Contents
155 x 98 mm. A view of the exterior of the hotel, with figures posing in front, and the river in the background. Lane Cove is a suburb on the north side of Sydney Harbour. Photographer probably an amateur.
Dates:
1888
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Goulbourn River at Hall’s Flat, Alexandra, 1885 - 1891
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087D/66
Scope and Contents
201 x 151 mm. A view from high ground, looking across hilly wooded land, with the river in the foreground. The land around the river has been partially cleared and cultivated, with many leafless trees showing evidence of ‘ringbarking’.
Dates:
1885 - 1891
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Photographs of Victoria
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The Government Printing Office and temporary Telegraph Office, 1875
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085C/6
Scope and Contents
265 x 207 mm. A three-quarters front view of these two buildings from the street, along which are telegraph poles and wires. The first telegraph message sent in Queensland was from Brisbane to Ipswich on 11 Apr. 1861. By 21 Oct. 1872 there was direct telegraphic communication with Europe.
Dates:
1875
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Govt. Buildings : said to be the largest wooden building in the world. Wellington, New Zealand, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 26/6944
Scope and Contents
[No print]. Missing.
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Grand Arch, Jenolan Caves, 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086M/26
Scope and Contents
The caves, a popular tourist spot since the 1860's, and situated 115 miles by road west of Sydney, were originally reached via Oberon, but in 1868 the railway reached Mount Victoria, and from there passengers walked. The road down to the caves, known as the 'Five Mile' was completed around 1887 as far as the Great Arch. In 1896 the road through the arch was completed. The photograph shows a car on the road having just come through the large rock tunnel.
Dates:
1911
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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New South Wales, 1911
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The Grand Stand : cricket match New Zealand versus Australia, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 26/6951
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. Sir Joseph Ward, the Premier, in the Grand Stand. This is the 'basin' reserve: originally intended for a dock: during the great earthquake the whole of this was raised. Wellington.
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Great Extended Hustlers Co.’s Quartz Mining Claim, 1875
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087C/43
Scope and Contents
178 x 126 mm. A view showing the office, the battery house and the main shaft of the mine. Text below the photograph reads ‘This famous Quartz Claim covers an area of 24 acres, and has six shafts, which represent 4000 feet of sinking; there are no less than 13 levels and 16 crosscuts, giving a total of 12,000 feet in length. The total amount expended in labour by this company is £228,000. The quartz raised amounts to 114,500 tons, and it has yielded 188, 000 ozs of gold. The amount paid in...
Dates:
1875
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Views of Bendigo
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The great Wairakei Geyser : active, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 26/6980
Scope and Contents
From the File:
The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 6787-7005 (originally there were 173 in the album). Added numbers are: 6933-7005; not used: 6791, 6821, 6834 and 6872; missing 6790, 6792-6794, 6802, 6809, 6812, 6814, 6848-6849, 6936-6937, 6941, 6944, 6947, 6981, 6984, 6989-6890, 6992-6993 and 6995.
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The great Wairakei Geyser : dormant, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 26/6977
Scope and Contents
[Cliffs behind and petrified shapes in the foreground].
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The great Wairakei Geyser : giving warning, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 26/6978
Scope and Contents
[Steam rising in centre of picture].
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Great Wairoa Geyser playing, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7022
Scope and Contents
North Island: New Zealand.
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Great Wairoa Geyser playing, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7024
Scope and Contents
North Island: New Zealand.
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Great Wairoa Geyser playing, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7025
Scope and Contents
North Island: New Zealand.
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Great Wairoa Geyser playing. North Island: New Zealand, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7023
Scope and Contents
[No print]. Missing.
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Great Wall and Gorge at Kanangra, New South Wales, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086L/27
Scope and Contents
350 x 274 mm. A view looking along the sheer cliff face and showing the bottom of the gorge.
Dates:
1909
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Great Wall and Gorge of Kanangra, New South Wales, 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086L/26
Scope and Contents
350 x 274 mm. A view of the gorge showing the sheer cliff face and the drop into the steep wooded ground below.
Dates:
1909
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Great Whale : Christchurch Museum, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 26/6888
Scope and Contents
Half-plate (landscape format). [Similar to previous picture].
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Great Willow on Yarra Banks, 1888 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/33
Scope and Contents
197 x 140 mm. A view of this large willow tree, with the river beyond. The handwritten caption also states ‘grown from cutting taken from Napoleon’s first grove, St Helena’.
Dates:
1888 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Great Zig-Zag, New South Wales, 1885
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089C/2
Scope and Contents
286 x 190 mm. A view looking along the Lithgow Zig-Zag, engineered by John Whitton in 1869 to allow trains to negotiate the steep descent from the Blue Mountains. For a fine panoramic view of the zig-zag see Y3086E51.
Dates:
1885
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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New Zealand and America
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The growing town of Suva, 2006
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3091I/10
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
200 x 150 mm. modern copies of original prints.
Dates:
2006
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Gum Digger coming home from work. Croatian type, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7057
Scope and Contents
[No print]. [Missing].
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[The hall at Vailima], 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309C/49
Scope and Contents
200 x 142 mm. A view showing the hall and staircase in the new Vailima. The photograph shows Robert Louis Stevenson leaning against the staircase, Fanny Stevenson (blurred) seated and holding a lute, Lloyd Osborne (Fanny Stevenson’s son by a previous marriage) sitting beside a piano, and Joe Strong (Fanny Stevenson’s son-in-law) standing behind the piano. Photograph signed ‘Andrew’.
Dates:
1899
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Tour of the South Seas
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The Hangi - greeting between Maggie Papekura and a Maori woman, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7015
Scope and Contents
[Two women holding shands and touching noses and foreheads].
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
The Hangi - greeting between Maggie Papekura and a Maori woman, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7016
Scope and Contents
[Two women holding shands and touching noses and foreheads].
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
The Harbour, Gladstone, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7586
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. [A still sea with no boats. Jetty with shed visible behind trees]
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).