A collection of lantern slides of Australia (plus one duplicate). 5-10 are marked 'Commonwealth of Australia' and have serial numbers. 12-22 are marked 'Department of Agriculture and Stock, Brisbane'. The slides' captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found.

120 x 92 mm. A view showing a hillside covered with scrubland and with a rocky outcrop at the summit. Photograph by C.G. Gibson. Negative No. 113.

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.

185 x 128 mm. A view looking up Mitchell Street from near St Paul’s Church, towards Charing Cross (marked by the lamp in the centre of the crossroads).

177 x 125 mm. A view looking towards mine workings, with an excavated trench in the foreground. Sites identified in the key are The Dividing Range between Happy Valley, Victoria Hill and Iron Bark; Lansell’s No. 180 Claim; New Chum and Victoria Company’s Quartz Crushing Battery.

270 x 210 mm. Shows the group of stone vineyard buildings with workers standing at left of picture.

179 x 124 mm. A view of the hill with men and women posing in the foreground, among small domestic houses, and mine workings on the hill beyond. The key identifies the following: Abe Lincoln Crushing Plant, Mr. Lansell’s Residence, Mr. Lazarus’ Residence, Lazarus Co. Claim, Old Chum Claim.

205 x 139 mm. A view of the harbour and town looking down from Fort Hill. The picture shows ships at anchor, and warehouses and boat sheds on the shore, with Government House on the hill overlooking the bay at the left of the picture. A similar photograph, also by Foëlsche, but probably taken at an earlier date, appears in Alfred Searcy’s ‘In Australian Tropics’ (London 1907).

260 x 210 mm. A view looking along rows of vines towards Hudson's Hill in the distance. The Hunter River is not visible.

260 x 215 mm. A view of the vineyards, with a path between the vines.

260 x 215 mm. The wine stores are in the distance. The grape pickers, mainly female, stand among the vines, while the grape crushers, mounted on a ponycart with a large barrel, proceed along a path between the vines.

260 x 215 mm. A view down the rows of vines, with cottages beyond the vines and the hills behind.

123 x 94 mm. A view showing the entrance to the Rock Hole (filled with water), with a man and two tethered camels in the foreground. Photograph by H.W.B. Talbot. Negative No. 577.

183 x 120 mm. Showing the wooden bridge which spans Sailors’ Creek. In the foreground two prospectors can be seen on the bank of the creek beside their gold sluices.

188 x 134 mm. A view looking along the valley towards the Sailors’ Creek Falls (dry in this photograph) near Dylesford.

179 x 124 mm. A general view from north Sandhurst looking south towards Pall Mall and St Paul’s Church.

187 x 129 mm. A view looking over the rooftops, with Pall Mall crossing the picture in the middle distance. Buildings identified in the key are St. James’ Hall, Orderly Room, Beehive Exchange and Stores, St. Paul’s Church, Warden’s Court and the Temperance Hall.

178 x 124 mm. A view looking down on the cemetery with the Mortuary Chapel to the right, a monument to Burke and Wills in the graveyard, and the sexton’s lodge beyond. The monument was erected in 1862, the year after the explorers’ deaths.

179 x 125 mm. A view looking over a crowded commercial part of the town, with a coach works in the foreground. Locations identified in the key are: Roman Catholic Church, Odd Fellows Hall, Road to Huntly in the distance.

200 x 150 mm. Probably the same as Y308M/35 and Y308M/36 from further away.

200 x 150 mm.

150 x 200 mm.

186 x 129 mm. A view along an unsurfaced road towards the centre of the town. Part of Pall Mall is visible at the left of the picture. Buildings identified in the key are Beehive Chambers, Rotunda, City of Sandhurst Claim, City Hotel, Ross, Henderson and Fick’s, Jackson, Ironmongers; Bank of Victoria, Bank of New South Wales, Post Office.

200 x 150 mm.