A view of dense woodland, showing the palms among taller forest trees.

266 x 216 mm. View looking across George Street towards the east façade of the Bank of Australasia, designed in classical style by Edmund Blacket in 1857-58. The Jamieson Street corner is in the left foreground. The building is of three storeys and five bays, with a rusticated ground floor and quoins, and with pediments above the arched windows on the first floor. The premises of George Loxton and Co. (? printers), can be seen to the north towards the junction with Charlotte Place.

183 x 248 mm. A view of the Queen Street façade of the New Zealand Bank, with three figures standing beside the front entrance. This attractive building was designed by Leonard Terry of Melbourne, and built between 1865 and 1867.

143 x 199 mm. A view showing the base of a large Banyan tree, with a group of Europeans and Fijians standing on the branches a few feet from the ground. Their identity is not known nor whether they are inhabitants or members of the expedition to the Coral Islands. It is possible Burton is among the group, and if this is so he would be the figure with a white beard standing at the centre of the main group. Very tentative identification, however.

200 x 150 mm. A similar photograph [i.e. to preceding print] of ripening grapes.

Monochrome and coloured postcards. Subjects include: Beachmount Hotel, Bathsheba, Barbados, Barbados coast, types of residence in Barbados, and Parramatta River. This collection is housed with the Darnell Davis manuscript collection at RCMS 259.

100 x 140 mm. Pencilled caption on reverse reads ‘Barcaldine Bore 357 miles west from Rockhampton. Water shut off’. Showing the tower, boarded off, with teams of horses beside it.

150 x 200 mm. Photograph taken from one side of the falls. The height of the first fall is 660 feet with smaller falls totalling 800 feet. 'When in full flood more water passes over these falls, than over Niagara falls' ('Views seen from Queensland Railways').

200 x 145 mm. Looking down between two lines of pear trees. Location, on reverse of print, illegible.

145 x 170 mm. A bore under construction with derrick, steam engine and drilling machinery. Several men and women posing by the derrick.

190 x 140 mm. A view of the river showing a large circular pool, surrounded by steep wooded banks. Men can be seen standing on stepping-stones in the river.

140 x 200 mm. Photographer’s copyright statement and catalogue number etched into foot of photograph: ‘WAIMANGU BASIN. ILES PHOTO. ROTORUA. PROTECTED. 4.09.03’.

Smithson has pencilled '26/8' next to the following notes: '40. Making baskets - fresh gathered leaves at back - white (?) hair - also for carrying water. Beside copra the last few years has seen the development of cocoa growing in fact one may now say there is a cocoa 'boom' soil is found very suitable and land has increased in price - nearly every one has a plantation - '.

340 x 262 mm. A view showing the station exterior with its distinctive Dutch gables. The station was built in 1876 and 'The railway guide of New South Wales' mentions its 'large and convenient refreshment-room' (NSW Registrar-General's Office 1886, p.73).

340 x 262 mm. A view showing the station exterior with its distinctive Dutch gables.

340 x 262 mm. A view showing the platform.

282 x 209 mm. View looking up along the south side of Bathurst Street, from the junction of Bathurst Street and Sussex Street. In the right foreground at 295 Sussex Street, at the junction with Bathurst Street, is the independent Methodist Chapel, a two storey brick building with stepped gables facing onto Bathurst Street. Further down the street is the small Kerosene Oil Depot.

264 x 210 mm. View from the junction of Bathurst Street and Sussex Street looking west, with the southernmost tip of Darling Harbour visible at the end of the street. In the left foreground on the corner is Reuben C. Jacobs' Robert Burns Hotel and, a few doors down along Bathurst Street, the premises of John Phillips and Co., coal and wood merchants and contractors.

286 x 211 mm. View looking up along Bathurst Street West from an unidentified junction. In the right foreground on the corner is William Lang's Sir Walter Scott Hotel and a few doors up, John Harkness's Bell Foundry.

Printed in the photo: S.M.S 'EMDEN' on rocks 200 yds. from beach.

180 x 127 mm. A view of the crushing machines, complete with water sluices which separate the crushed rock from the gold. Explanation on mount reads ‘The reduction of quartz by stampers, is the only method at present adopted on the Gold Fields of Bendigo. The most extensive plants, being those at Koch’s Pioneer Claim, Long Gully; The Extended Hustler’s; also the Garden Gully United; and the Abe Lincoln Crushing Plant, New Chum Gully’.

Contains Kodachrome slides, processed in Australia and arranged by processing number.

Contains Kodachrome slides, processed in Australia and arranged by processing number.

197 x 143 mm. A view from the cliffs above a beach, looking out into the bay which is dotted with islands, towards mountains in the distance. The Bay of Islands is a drowned river system containing about 150 islands which lies on the east coast of North Auckland between Whangerei and Whangaroa. The first European to visit it was Captain Cook in 1769, and in the nineteenth century it became a watering place for whalers.