Australia (nation)
Found in 2775 Collections and/or Records:
Baked slate [?] Walsh's Quarry, Kalgoorlie District, 1901
152 x 107 mm. A view showing a sheer rockface containing a vertical stratum of baked slate (?sheared porphyrite) in a quarry in the Kalgoorlie District. Photograher E.S. Simpson. Negative No. 60.
Baker's Creek Gold Mine, Hillgrove, New England, 1909
350 x 274 mm. A view looking down on the rickety mine buildings, which are perched precariously on the steep slope of a hill.
Baker's Creek Goldmine, Hillgrove, 1908
A view of the goldmine, perched on the slope and surrounded by hills.
Baling up valley from C[reek?] Brookmans, 1910
205 x 140 mm. A view over the valley, with farm settlements and fields.
Ballarat, 1885 - 1901
197 x 146 mm. An aerial view taken from the top of a building, and looking down at the intersection between Sturt Street and Lydiard Street, with town and country visible beyond. The large building with the tower at the corner of the two streets is the Post Office, built in 1864.
Band and Albion Goldmine, Ballarat, 1885 - 1901
202 x 148 mm. A view from a hill of mined rubble, looking towards the neat wooden buildings of the mine.
Bangalow Palms, Nth. Coast District, N.S.W, 1911
A dense forest scene, with Banagalow Palms growing among other forest trees.
Bangalow Palms, Nth Coast District, N.S.W, 1908
A view of dense woodland, showing the palms among taller forest trees.
Bank of Australasia, corner of George Street North and Jamieson Street, 1870 - 1879
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.
Barat's Grapes, Stanthorpe, 1910
200 x 150 mm. A similar photograph [i.e. to preceding print] of ripening grapes.
Barbados and Australia, 1910
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.
Barcaldine Bore, 1894
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.
Barnes family photographs
Barron Falls, Cairns, 1910
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').
Bartlett Pear trees : eight years, 1910
200 x 145 mm. Looking down between two lines of pear trees. Location, on reverse of print, illegible.
Baryenia [Barinya?] Bore, South of Hughenden, 1894
145 x 170 mm. A bore under construction with derrick, steam engine and drilling machinery. Several men and women posing by the derrick.
Basin, Nepean River, 1885
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.
Bathurst station, 1887
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).
Bathurst station, 1887
340 x 262 mm. A view showing the station exterior with its distinctive Dutch gables.
Bathurst station, 1887
340 x 262 mm. A view showing the platform.
Bathurst Street looking east from Sussex Street, 1870 - 1879
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.
Bathurst Street looking west from Sussex Street, 1870 - 1879
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.
Bathurst Street West, 1870 - 1879
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.
Battered & ashore at North Keeling, 1914 - 1930
Printed in the photo: S.M.S 'EMDEN' on rocks 200 yds. from beach.
Battery of Stampers for Crushing Quartz, 1875
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’.