534 x 174 mm. 2 joined prints. Information given states '3 spans of 110 feet each, 6 approach spans, total length 510 feet'. A side view from the river bank, showing the whole length of the bridge across the river. The bridge is constructed of iron girders, with cylindrical iron supporting piers.

190 x 140 mm. A view of the partially complete Lands Department, seen from the junction of Bridge Street and Pitt Street. Designed by James Barnet in 1877, by 1888 only the north-west corner was finished. This picture was probably taken around that year, or possibly a year or two earlier.

The diaries record mainly domestic and family news, an account of life in Melbourne during 1852-56, and continental tours in 1861, 1864 and 1869.

The diary describes Brewster’s official duties, which included administration, legal affairs, finance, surveying construction and agricultural projects, visiting isolated communities, and commanding the constabulary. Brewster also gives a brief account of his colleagues and social life (100 sheets).

Letters written by Fisher to Halford Mackinder describing his travels (circa 2,000 pages).

152 x 107 mm. A view looking over the marshy, reed grown lake bed, with two figures standing beside an excavated trench in the foreground. Photograph by E.S. Simpson. Negative No. 71.

120 x 92 mm. A view showing cracked mud and reeds on the lake bed of Little Badgerup Lake. Photograph by E.S. Simpson. Negative No. 86.

117 x 92 mm. A similar view to the previous plate, taken from the south side of the lake. Photograph by E.S. Simpson. Negative No. 87.

203 x 150 mm. A view looking along the dining room, with animal horn trophies mounted on the walls.

[Four horses with their nosebags still harnessed to their carts].

Kamerunga Nursery. [Woman in long skirt standin on top of wooden stairs among creeper in front of the house].

200 x 145 mm.

210 x 149 mm. A view of the room, showing work benches, with two statues of male figures.

205 x 132 mm. A view looking along Parramatta Street towards the east front of the main university building, with the Great Hall on the right. The building to the left of the main building is the university Medical School. The university is situated on the small hill overlooking Victoria Park, between Glebe and Newtown.

135 x 90 mm. Taken from the deck of another ship.

135 x 90 mm. A view from the deck of another ship, with a seaman standing in the foreground.

190 x 140 mm. A view looking through the gates towards St. Mary's Cathedral, situated on the East Side of Hyde Park. The building seen here is still under construction; the north wall is complete, but there is as yet no roof or central tower. The first Roman Catholic Cathedral on the site was burned down in 1865. William Wardell designed the present building, which took over twenty years to complete. This photograph was probably taken around 1883-1885.

280 x 225 mm. A view looking down on the bay, with a jetty on the beach, and residential houses just inland. Double Bay, now a suburb of Sydney, lies between Point Piper and Darling Point.

286 x 210 mm. View looking towards the two storey house with hipped roof and ground floor verandah which occupies the north corner of the junction between Macquarie Street North (at left of print) and Hunter Street (at right). Dr Cox is probably Dr James C. Cox.

195 x 145 mm. Three ladies on the verandah of the house, a stone bungalow with an attic floor. There is a lawn mower on the grass, with a single-stem handle.

203 x 150 mm. Showing the drawing room at Roseneath, with a tiled fireplace in the foreground and an ornately carved and inlaid circular cabinet standing against the wall beyond.

190 x 140 mm. A view down St. Mary's Road, with an ornate stone drinking fountain in the foreground. Known as the Frazer Fountain, it was designed by Thomas Sapsford in 1884.

200 x 130 mm. Showing a flock of sheep with three farmers on horseback.