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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2775 Collections and/or Records:

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Baked slate [?] Walsh's Quarry, Kalgoorlie District, 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081A/10
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1901
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Baker's Creek Gold Mine, Hillgrove, New England, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086L/53
Scope and Contents

350 x 274 mm. A view looking down on the rickety mine buildings, which are perched precariously on the steep slope of a hill.

Dates: 1909
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Baker's Creek Goldmine, Hillgrove, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086K/40
Scope and Contents

A view of the goldmine, perched on the slope and surrounded by hills.

Dates: 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Baling up valley from C[reek?] Brookmans, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081B/52
Scope and Contents

205 x 140 mm. A view over the valley, with farm settlements and fields.

Dates: 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Ballarat, 1885 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087D/52
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1885 - 1901
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Band and Albion Goldmine, Ballarat, 1885 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087D/54
Scope and Contents

202 x 148 mm. A view from a hill of mined rubble, looking towards the neat wooden buildings of the mine.

Dates: 1885 - 1901
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Bangalow Palms, Nth. Coast District, N.S.W, 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086M/59
Scope and Contents

A dense forest scene, with Banagalow Palms growing among other forest trees.

Dates: 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Bangalow Palms, Nth Coast District, N.S.W, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086K/49
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Bank of Australasia, corner of George Street North and Jamieson Street, 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086P/56
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1870 - 1879
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Barat's Grapes, Stanthorpe, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085O/13
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Sub-Series

Barbados and Australia, 1910

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC West Indies/217-226
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Barcaldine Bore, 1894

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085K/22
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1894
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

Barnes family photographs

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087I
Scope and Contents A collection of photographs of family and friends of Thomas William Barnes, an Irishman who emigrated to Australia probably around 1876. The collection consists of:(a) 11 photographs framed behind celluloid and showing scenes in the outback.(b) 55 small (approximately 57 x 90 mm) carte-de-viste portraits taken by various commercial firms in Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney.(c) 15 large (approximately 100 x 137 mm) carte-de-visite portraits by various Australian...
Dates: 1872 - 1896
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Barron Falls, Cairns, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085O/44
Scope and Contents

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').

Dates: 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Bartlett Pear trees : eight years, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081B/51
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Baryenia [Barinya?] Bore, South of Hughenden, 1894

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085K/23
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1894
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Basin, Nepean River, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086J/64
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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.

Dates: 1885
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Bathurst station, 1887

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086E/28
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 1887
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Bathurst station, 1887

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086E/29
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1887
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Bathurst station, 1887

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086E/30
Scope and Contents

340 x 262 mm. A view showing the platform.

Dates: 1887
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Bathurst Street looking east from Sussex Street, 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086P/20
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1870 - 1879
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Bathurst Street looking west from Sussex Street, 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086P/19
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1870 - 1879
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Bathurst Street West, 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086P/23
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1870 - 1879
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Battered & ashore at North Keeling, 1914 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302L/162
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1914 - 1930
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Battery of Stampers for Crushing Quartz, 1875

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087C/5
Scope and Contents

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’.

Dates: 1875
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).