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Oceania (continent)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 4945 Collections and/or Records:

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View of Apia from Matuata, 1889 - 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309993A(LS)/2
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A coloured lantern slide showing the Apia waterfront. The steep hill behind the town is Mount Vaea, on which Robert Louis Stevenson is buried; his grave lies at the summit directly above the white building at the furthest left of the picture. A duplicate in black and white, reversed, is at 40A. Print number 40.

Dates: 1889 - 1900
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View of Apia from Matuata, 1899 - 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309993A(LS)/40A
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A view showing the Apia waterfront. The steep hill behind the town is Mount Vaea, on which Robert Louis Stevenson is buried; his grave lies at the summit directly above the white building at the furthest left of the picture. A duplicate of Y309993A(LS)/2, reversed and in black and white, Print number 22.

Dates: 1899 - 1900
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[View of Apia from the harbour], 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309993C(LS)/88
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[View of Apia from the harbour], 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309993C(LS)/89
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[View of Apia from the harbour], 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309993C(LS)/90
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[View of Apia from the Tivoli Hotel, Rosabel], 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309993C(LS)/17
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Smithson has pencilled '25/5' next to the following notes: '17. View of Apia from Rosabel - Tivoli hotel - tower, church no windows singing melodious. Vaea mountain. R.L.S. buried at top [Robert Louis Stevenson's tomb is situated on the summit of Mt. Vaea]'.

Dates: 1903
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[View of Apia, Upolu Island], 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309993C(LS)/15
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Smithson has pencilled '22/6' next to the following notes: '15. Apia early morning - cocoa and palms coming down to the water's edge behind which long line of mountains covered with vegetation - misty - Upolu of which Apia is the capital is an island of about 45 miles x 14 and contains 580 square miles - the town consists of one long road running down the beach containing various stores and also government offices, no native houses are on the street but are to be found close behind'.

Dates: 1903
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[View of Apia, Upolu Island], 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309993C(LS)/16
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Smithson has pencilled '24/6' next to the following notes: '16. Apia can hardly be called a harbour for when the wind blows in a certain direction it is more dangerous to be inside the reef than outside - In March 1889 it was visited by a fearful hurricane in which 3 American and 3 German men of war were wrecked and about 150 lives lost, the British boat Calliope being the onlt [sic] that escaped - To this day the hulk of the German Adler lies on the shore - '.

Dates: 1903
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View of Charing Cross, Sandhurst, 1875

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087C/26
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184 x 129 mm. A view of Charing Cross, situated at the west end of Pall Mall, with Bath Corner at the left and the City Hotel in the centre.

Dates: 1875
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View of Coongan River two miles south of Marble Bar, 1905 - 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081A/25
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152 x 107 mm. A view showing the Coongan River in the foreground with a rocky cliff beyond. Photograph by W. D. Campbell. Negative No. 539.

Dates: 1905 - 1908
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View of Coopergae and Vineyard gate beyond on the left, 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086B/11
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210 x 155 mm. Showing the cooperage, a wooden cabin with a corrugated iron roof, with barrels lined up outside and coopers posed as if hammering a barrel.

Dates: 1886
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View of Distillery, 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086B/12
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210 x 155 mm. A three-quarter front view of the building, partly built of stone, partly of corrugated iron, with planks from top window for rolling out barrels.

Dates: 1886
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View of Doolena Gorge on Coongan River, Pilbara area, 1905 - 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081A/26
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107 x 151 mm. View showing a huge rock spur in the Doolena Gorge. A loaded wagon drawn by a large horse team stands on level ground in the foreground. Photogrpah by W.D. Campbell. Negative No. 540.

Dates: 1905 - 1908
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View of Dundas Lake, Norseman area, 1904-08-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081A/67
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151 x 108 mm. A view looking over dense woodland towards the distant lake, 'showing water in lake during the winter from ridge on Gold Mining Lease 789'. Photograph by W.D. Campbell. Negative No. 225.

Dates: 1904-08-10
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View of fossil Otozamites Feistmanteli, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081A/74
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107 x 136 mm. A studio photograph showing the fossil, found three miles south of Mingenew. Photograph by E.S. Simpson and R.H. Irwin. Negative No. 321.

Dates: 1900
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View of Ginginup Hill, Gin Gin, 1903-12-16

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081A/58
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151 x 107 mm. A view of Ginginup Hill showing the base and cap of sandstone and grit with chalk halfway up the hill. Photogrpah by E.S. Simpson. Negative No. 165.

Dates: 1903-12-16
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View of Golden Square Township, 1875

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087C/19
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180 x 126 mm. A view looking down on this suburb of Bendigo, showing the Wesleyan Church in the centre, with small houses and businesses grouped around it.

Dates: 1875
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View of gorge on Elvire River (tributary of Ord River), Kimberley Stock Route Survey, 1908 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081A/78
Scope and Contents From the Series: Two soft-covered albums containing prints, generally measuring approximately 150 x 110 mm. The prints are uncaptioned but have identifying negative numbers corresponding to those in the archives of the GSWA: all information has been kindly supplied by J.H. Lord, Director, Geological Survey, Department of Mines, Perth, on the basis of these numbers. The photographs themselves show landscape, geological formations and mining activity in West Australia and were taken by various photographers...
Dates: 1908 - 1909
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[View of Honolulu from the water], 1928-10-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353/4/42
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Print at RCMS 353/2/242.

Dates: 1928-10-05
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View of Illagi (Murgurra) Pool, Nabberu District, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081A/1
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122 x 94 mm. A view looking across a tree-lined pool on the Kimberley stock route. Photograph by H.W.B. Talbot. Negative No. 422.

Dates: 1908
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View of interior portion of principal wine press room, showing screw presses and tubs, fermenting vats of 1000 gallons each, covered with canvas cloths, and centrifugal pump drawing off wine must into cask in cellar beyond, 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086B/13
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260 x 210 mm. Photograph printed from broken plate. An interior view of a building with wooden joists and pillars, with a corrugated iron roof. The screw-presses are at the right, the pump in the centre with worker standing beside it and the fermenting vats on the left.

Dates: 1886
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View of Irwin River, Dongara area, 1905-05-16

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081A/17
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152 x 107 mm. A view from a hillside looking over the meandering Irwin River and its debouchment into the sea in the distance. A photograph 'taken from roadnear west end of cemetery'. Photograph by W.D. Campbell. Negative No. 515.

Dates: 1905-05-16
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View of Jasper Bar in the Coongan River, Pilbara Marble area, 1905 - 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081A/27
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152 x 108 mm. A view looking along the Coongan River with a spur of white jasper jutting out into the river in the foreground. It is the presence of this mineral which gives the Marble Bar area its name. Photograph by W.D. Campbell. Negative No. 541.

Dates: 1905 - 1908