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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2761 Collections and/or Records:

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Hawkesbury River, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086J/55
Scope and Contents

190 x 140 mm. A view of the railway line, with water on either side. The station is partially obscured by trees, but the sign 'Hawkesbury River' is just legible. With shacks and tents in the foreground.

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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Hawkesbury River, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086J/56
Scope and Contents

190 x 140 mm. A view of the river from the beach, with figures and two rowing boats. Precise location unknown, but probably near the mouth of the river in Broken Bay.

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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Hawkesbury River, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086J/58
Scope and Contents

190 x 140 mm. A view of the river, with men pushing out rowing boats. Precise location unidentified.

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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Hawkesbury River, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086J/59
Scope and Contents

190 x 140 mm. A view of the river from an overlooking hill, with hills in the distance. Precise location not given but probably a view north-west from Brooklyn, the spit of land at the left being Peat's Ferry.

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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Hawkesbury River, Brooklyn, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086J/57
Scope and Contents

190 x 140 mm. A view of the Hawkesbury River Station and the railway with the river beyond. A road leads away from the station towards the camera.

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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Hay Bridge, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086F/14
Scope and Contents

270 x 200 mm. A view looking along the length of the bridge, from slightly below and to one side, and showing the use of wooden supports on the approach spans.

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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Hay Bridge, Murrumbidgee River, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086F/13
Scope and Contents

270 x 199 mm. The information given states '2 spans of 60 feet fixed, 2 swing spans of 60 feet, 19 approach spans, total length 732 feet'. A view from the side showing the centre section of the bridge constructed of iron girders on iron supports.

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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Hay Street, Perth, Western Australia, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081B/33
Scope and Contents

205 x 150 mm. A view down the street, with tramlines and telegraph wires overhead, and an electric tram in the distance.

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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Hetton Colliery, Newcastle, N.S.W [i.e. New South Wales], 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086M/47
Scope and Contents

A view looking along railway tracks, with strings of freight trucks loaded with different grades of coal. The colliery is in the background and the harbour can be seen in the distance.

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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Highlights of Adelaide, 1954

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 320/1/30
Scope and Contents

A guide to Adelaide prepared for Royal Visit Year.

Dates: 1954
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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Hill Stream, Darlington, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081B/42
Scope and Contents

200 x 145 mm. Showing the stream flowing into a pool.

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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Hilling potatoes, Laidley, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085O/36
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm. A view down rows of potatoes, with farmer and horse-plough raising earth onto the plants.

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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His Excellency Lord Augustus Loftus and Suite, with Mr. Francis Nobbs (Chief Magistrate) and Family, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308698A/11
Scope and Contents

Facing p.38, referred to on p.51. Francis Nobbs was one of the sons of the Rev. George Hunn Nobbs (1799-1884) who had come to Norfolk Island with the Pitcairn Islanders in 1856 and remained chaplain until his death.

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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Hobart, 1961

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ARCS/8/2/20
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

These files include annual reports, accompanied in some cases by explanatory letters, reports of annual general meetings, statements of accounts and other papers.

Dates: 1961
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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Hobart and Mount Wellington, 1890 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062R/15
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm.

Dates: 1890 - 1920
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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Hobart from the Bay, 1888 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/124
Scope and Contents

215 x 171 mm. A view showing part of the harbour, the town and Mt Wellington in the background. The foreground is largely taken up by a steel-hulled, three masted steamer. Most of the foreground has been extensively and skilfully retouched to emphasize detail and contrast.

Dates: 1888 - 1889
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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Hobart Town, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/179
Scope and Contents

188 x 107 mm. A view showing an iron road bridge in the foreground, with the harbour at the left of the picture and the town beyond.

Dates: 1870 - 1880
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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Holder: showing class of Permanent Homes, 1892

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082B/13
Scope and Contents

270 x 215 mm. A view of small stone houses in the background, with a field of unidentified plants in front. For the degree of settlement achieved, the photograph may be compared to that of Ramco in Y3082B/2.

Dates: 1892
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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Home for Incurables, Fullarton, near Adelaide, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082A/20
Scope and Contents

260 x 200 mm. A view showing a single storey building with a corrugated iron roof and a verandah running along its length.

Dates: 1890
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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Homestead, Bridgetown, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081B/54
Scope and Contents

200 x 145 mm. View of homestead and farm buildings, with fruit trees growing at left and hill behind.

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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[Honeyeaters], 1919 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/2/48
Scope and Contents

Possibly by Violet Artah Bartlett, fl 1919-1930, although the signature is different from the other examples of her work in the collection.

Dates: 1919 - 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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[Hooded parrot], 1919 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/2/25
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds: Fifty-three undated watercolours intended as bookmarks, each 200 x 45 mm in size, sold by John Sands of Sydney as indicated by stickers pasted onto the reverse. The images are of birds, with the exception of two koala bears, two kangaroos and one opossum. The vast majority are the work of three authors, signed Artah, M. Simpson and Koddi. Artah is Violet Artah Bartlett, an artist specialising in Australian ornithology who worked in Sydney during the 1920s. It has proved impossible as yet...
Dates: 1919 - 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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Hornsby Light, Sydney, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086J/30
Scope and Contents

190 x 140 mm. A view of the lighthouse on a cliff, with the harbour beyond. A thirty foot high tower, painted in red and white vertical stripes, the building was erected at Inner South Head in 1858 and named after Admiral Sir Phipps Hornsby, Commander-in-Chief of the British Pacific Fleet in the 1860's.

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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[Horse corrals on shore], 1899 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M/42
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm. Shows corrals and wooden buildings, with railway trucks behind.

Dates: 1899 - 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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[Horse corrals on shore], 1899 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M/43
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm. Similar to Y308m/42, but showing more on the left and a sailing ship at anchor beyond the trucks.

Dates: 1899 - 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).