Australia (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2761 Collections and/or Records:
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Red Flowering Gum, Perth [coloured], 1900 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308H(LS)/5
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
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.
Dates:
1900 - 1950
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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Redfern, Banks Street, 1870 - 1879
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086P/74
Scope and Contents
277 x 197 mm. View looking west along Banks Street towards Abercrombie Street, with domestic residences of varied character lining the road. The University of Sydney buildings are visible on the skyline in the distance.
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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Redfern Railway Station, 1870 - 1879
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086P/2
Scope and Contents
280 x 213 mm. View of the Redfern Railway Terminal, with the 1870 Sydney Inter-Colonial Exhibition buildings (demolished in 1954) in the background.
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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Redfern Station, Sydney, 1860 - 1869
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/86
Scope and Contents
225 x 163 mm. A photograph showing the exterior of the building, with a row of horse cabs at the right of the picture. This photograph was taken before 1870. In Y3086P/2, a photograph taken from a similar viewpoint, the 1870 Exhibition Building is prominent in the background. In this picture building work has not yet started.
Dates:
1860 - 1869
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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Redfern Terminus, Sydney, 1887
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086E/26
Scope and Contents
340 x 262 mm. General view probably taken from a bridge, showing the lines running into platforms.
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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Redfern Terminus, Sydney, 1887
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086E/27
Scope and Contents
340 x 262 mm. View from outside with the exhibition buildings in the background. Some blurring of horse-drawn vehicles in the foreground.
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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Registrar's Room, Sydney University, 1895 - 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086O/15
Scope and Contents
210 x 153 mm. A view of the office, with desk and chairs in the foreground, and various paintings on the walls.
Dates:
1895 - 1900
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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The University of Sydney
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Related documents, 2008 - 2009
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 384/2
Scope and Contents
A small file of copies of original documents accompanies the memoir. These include a telegram, a letter and the text of a radio message sent from William Ainslie to his wife Margaret informing her of his internment, and a postcard from another internee mentioning Ainslie. There is also a passenger list for SS ‘Nellore’, documents relating to the reception of Malayan evacuees in Australia, and a newspaper obituary for Dr Peter Chopping, who served with the RAMC and was interned in Singapore...
Dates:
2008 - 2009
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
Remains of the Emden
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30315A
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs of the wreck of the German Cruiser 'Emden', sunk by HMAS 'Sydney' whilst attacking the Cocos-Keeling Islands on 9 November 1914.
These photographs were extracted from the file in the RCS Archives on 'The Empire at War', edited for the Royal Empire Society by Sir Charles Lucas. References appear in volume III at pages 29, 76, 78, 212-3 and 223.
Dates:
1914-11-09
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Report on Gilbert and Ellice Islands
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 310
Scope and Contents
An incomplete, printed report, 86 pages, with manuscript marginal annotations and a 2-page typed introduction by the R.C.S. Librarian. The report comprises papers respecting the declaration of a British Protectorate over the Gilbert Islands by Captain Davis, of H.M.S. 'Royalist', and general reports on the Gilbert, Ellice and Marshall Islands. The original cover, which is made out of a linen-backed chart of Macquarie Harbour, Tasmania, is bound in at the start. Loose with the volume is a...
Dates:
1892
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Sub-sub-class
Reports of annual general meetings, 1944 - 1945
Sub-sub-class
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/30/3
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
These records relate to various associations formed in Australia, India, Ceylon and South Africa by residents of Malaya displaced by the war. They provided information and assistance to evacuees, civilian internees, and prisoners of war.
Rules of the organisations, lists of members, minutes of meetings, memoranda, circulars, indemnity records and related correspondence (343 sheets).
Dates:
1944 - 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reels 8237-8.
Sub-Fonds
Reports on Aboriginal Australian and penal settlements, 1833 - 1835
Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/3
Scope and Contents
Reports on settlements in Australia visited by Backhouse and Walker during 1833-1835, probably contemporary copies. The 'Australian dictionary of biography' has the following entry on the reports (vol. I, p. 45): 'They gave (Sir George) Arthur eight valuable reports on the penal settlements of Macquarie Harbour and Port Arthur, the Aboriginal establishments on Flinders Island...In New South Wales and its dependencies Governor Bourke encouraged similar work in 1835-37...Their reports were...
Dates:
1833 - 1835
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Australasia miscellanea
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Reproduction of unidentified early print of Sydney Harbour, 1970 - 1980
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/3/14
Scope and Contents
450 x 295 mm.
Dates:
1970 - 1980
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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R.E.S. news, Victorian Branch, 1954
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 320/1/21
Scope and Contents
The Royal Visit issue (No. 146, December 1953/January 1954) of the pamphlet of the Royal Empire Society's Victorian Branch.
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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Residence of Mr. C. Nobbs, 1885
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308698A/13
Scope and Contents
Facing p.44, referred to on p.49. C. Nobbs was another son of George Hunn Nobbs.
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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Residence of the late Bishop Patteson - Melanesian Mission Station, 1885
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308698A/8
Scope and Contents
Facing p.30, referred to on p.40.
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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Return journey from Pacific 1963, 1963
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham M
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Fonds:
Slides taken during a visit which included New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, New Hebrides, Fiji, Tonga, the Gilbert Islands and New Caledonia.
Dates:
1963
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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Richmond Downs No. 1, 1894
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085K/11
Scope and Contents
210 x 135 mm. Showing the bore flowing and with a herd of cattle drinking from the irrigation channel.
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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Richmond Downs No. 3 Bore, 1894
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085K/12
Scope and Contents
210 x 130 mm. Photograph showing the construction of the drilling derrick, with a large steam engine to the right, and several large teams of horses pulling carts.
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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Ricmond [sic] River at Lismore, North Coast District, N.S.W, 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086K/68
Scope and Contents
A view of the Richmond River from the bank, looking along towards an iron bridge.
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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New South Wales, 1908
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[Right-hand side of stabling clearly shown, left in the background; a funnel seen in the background resembles that of Cornwall], 1899 - 1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M/30
Scope and Contents
200 x 150 mm.
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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Ringbarked and unringbarked, Comly, Mingenew, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081B/46
Scope and Contents
205 x 150 mm. Showing a group of treated and untreated trees. First practised on a large scale in the 1860s, ringmarking [sic] is a technique of killing trees by cutting into the bark to check the flow of sap, and thus making the land free for grass cultivation. The practice has been responsible for the destruction of vast amounts of timber in Australia.
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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River Cora-Linn, 1888 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/125
Scope and Contents
218 x 170 mm. A view looking up the river, with cliffs on one side, and wooded banks on the other.
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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River Frontage to Ramco, 1892
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082B/1
Scope and Contents
270 x 215 mm. Showing a curve in the river, and the sandy banks, with one figure standing at left. The funnel and wheelhouse of a small steamer can be seen moored at right of picture.
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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River Irwin, Mingenew District, 1907-07-29
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081A/5
Scope and Contents
152 x 107 mm. A view looking north east across the flooded Irwin River towards coal workings (Reserve 2297) on the far bank. Photograph by W.D. Campbell. Negative No. 329.
Dates:
1907-07-29
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).