350 x 250 mm. No print. 'Townsville is practically the capital town of North Queensland: the railway runs from here to Charters Towers. The town lies behind the slope of the hill shown in painting.'

An address delivered before the London Chamber of Commerce on 7 June 1898 on recovery from the disastrous period following the boom in wool and gold.

Programmes, guides, journals and one map relating to the Royal Visits to Jamaica, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Ceylon, Aden, Uganda, Malta and Gibraltar. There is also a report of Barclays Bank D.C.O. Much of the material relates to the tour of Australia.

350 x 274 mm. Showing a steam locomotive with freight trucks loaded with bales of wool and railway workers standing in front of the train.

[Showing train on a bend and people leaning out of the carriage windows].

275 x 220 mm. A view looking down on the river with the training wall in the foreground.

275 x 220 mm. A view looking along the river from a hillside, with heavily wooded ground all around. The training wall, built to direct the flow and current, can be seen in the river in the middle distance.

200 x 150 mm. Showing the cane being shunted by a small steam locomotive.

A clear photograph showing work in progress on the deck of S.S. 'Indraghiri', with harbour waves at the right of the slide.

200 x 125 mm. Photograph showing a herd of cattle with packhorses in front.

205 x 130 mm. A man on horseback faces the camera, while behind him a herd of cattle graze.

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.

184 x 130 mm. A three-quarters front view of the Treasury which lies on Spring Street opposite the junction with Collins Street. The building has a fine neo-classical façade, with columns and rounded arches and facings of freestone over brick and bluestone. Building started in 1855 to the plans of J Clark.

390 x 273 mm. A view looking across Gisborne Street towards the Treasury Buildings and showing the junction of Collins Street, Spring Street and Gisborne Street. The Treasury, a handsome building in the Italian Renaissance style, was completed in 1862. The fountain in the small garden to the north of the building was designed by William Stanford while a prisoner in Pentridge Gaol in the 1860s.

205 x 130 mm. A three-quarters front view of the building decorated with flags and bunting, and letters spelling ‘Advance United Australia’. With bystanders and policemen on the street.

203 x 155 mm. A side view of the buildings, with flags and decorations, and with bystanders and a horse cab in the road. The Brisbane River can just be seen at the extreme right of the picture.

205 x 155 mm. Another view of the decorated building, with partially obscured sign reading ‘Queensland Greets You’.

199 x 146 mm. A view of the front of the buildings, which face down Collins Street from Spring Street. A fine neo-classical façade, with columns and rounded arches, and facings of freestone over brick and bluestone. Building started in 1855 to the plans of the architect J. Clark.

150 x 105 mm. A view of the side of the Treasury buildings from George Street, decorated with arches, flags and trees, and looking down Queen Street to the Queen Street arch (see Y3085J/10). A photographer can be seen at work in the bottom left of the picture.

200 x 137 mm. A view of the Government Offices, showing the front of the building and one side. The offices overlook the Treasury Gardens and were completed in 1876.

85 x 140 mm.

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.

Arthur Bryant Triggs (1868-1936) was a pastoralist and art collector. He settled at Yass in 1888, becoming a leading station owner and sheep dealer. He died in Yass in 1936 and the people of the town subsequently erected memorial gates at Victoria Park.