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Australia (nation)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2643 Collections and/or Records:

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Paintings of Australian birds, 1887 - 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/7
Scope and Contents

Fifteen labelled but undated watercolours on gilt-edged card, each 105 x 165 mm.

Dates: 1887 - 1918
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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Pall Mall, Sandhurst, 1875

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087C/22
Scope and Contents

178 x 125 mm. A view looking east along Pall Mall, with the Beehive Buildings at the right, and the Shamrock Hotel a few doors down at the corner of Williamson Street. With horse carriages in the street.

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).
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Pall Mall, Sandhurst, looking West, 1875

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087C/24
Scope and Contents

178 x 126 mm. A view of the street from the east end, looking west and showing the shop fronts of saddlers, shirt-makers, and tailors. Moore Bros. can be seen at the left, and the Beehive Stores can be identified at the other of the street. To the right, at the end of Pall Mall, is the City Hotel.

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).
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Palmerin Street, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085D/17
Scope and Contents

195 x 145 mm. A view of the street showing more shops than are visible in Y3085D/4, including ‘Brown and Wilson’, ‘Apothecaries Hall’, ‘Warwick Argus’ and ‘Government Auctioneer’. With numerous bystanders posing on the pavement.

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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Palmerin Street, Warwick, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085D/4
Scope and Contents

195 x 145 mm. A general view down this wide shopping street, unpaved except for the gutter and pavement. Shop in far left is ‘D & C Hayes, Flour Stores’. Third building on right ‘J. Horwitz and Co’. Caption on print states ‘Street view, Warwick’. For another view of the street see Y3085D/17.

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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Panorama of Hobart showing River Derwent in foreground and Mount Wellington in Background, 1850 - 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3088D/1
Scope and Contents

194 x 137 mm.

Dates: 1850 - 1935
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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Panorama of the Lithgow Valley zigzag, 1887

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086E/51
Scope and Contents

770 x 340 mm. Composed of three joined photographs.

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).
 Sub-Fonds

Papers of Meta Maclean, 1941 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/15
Scope and Contents

Material relating to Maclean's career, including examples of her work and papers relating to the Meta Maclean Case, concerning the threat to modern songwriters and songwriting standards. The collection includes many undated photocopies.

Dates: 1941 - 1969
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-Fonds

Papers of Robert Gouger, 1834 - 1952

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/26
Scope and Contents

A wide range of papers relating to Gouger and his career in South Australia and correspondence with the R.C.S. regarding the collection. The papers are accompanied by 'Royal Commonwealth Society library notes', no. 65, May 1962, including 'Early days in South Australia' (pp. 1-3), which describes the collection.

Dates: 1834 - 1952
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-Fonds

Papers of Sir Ralph Darling, 1825 - 1836

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/32
Scope and Contents

Three documents relating to Sir Darling's official business in New South Wales.

Dates: 1825 - 1836
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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Papers of the Young family, 1988

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/41
Scope and Contents Two undated copies of a seven-page letter from Norah Young to her children, 1916, describing her voyage to Australia and early years there; photocopies of notes on the career of Reginald St Chad Young, originally written in 1965 (4 pages); xerox copies of photographs in the possession of the family (6 pages); and a family tree (1 page).The papers are accompanied by 'Glimpses of the past: a long life ended', a photocopied transcript of an article that appeared in the 'Adelaide advertiser'...
Dates: 1988
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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Parkside Hospital for the Insane (North Front), near Adelaide, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082A/19
Scope and Contents

260 x 200 mm. A view of the buildings with gardens in front. The west front of the building is at the right of the picture, with a wing to the left not seen in the previous photograph.

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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Parkside Hospital for the Insane (West Front), near Adelaide, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082A/18
Scope and Contents

260 x 190 mm. A front view of the large stone building, with white dressed stone decorations, and large central tower. Probably designed by William Bennett Hayes, and now demolished. The building stood in what is now the eastern part of the Botanic Gardens.

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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Parliament Buildings, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/142
Scope and Contents

183 x 125 mm. A view of the rear of the buildings, which face on to Spring Street. The building was started in 1856 and continued with various delays until 1892 (even then, two sides of the building remained unfaced).

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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Parliament House and Treasury, 1885 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087D/1
Scope and Contents

199 x 145 mm. A view of the Parliament House building from Spring Street. The treasury building can be seen in the distance. The Parliament buildings face down Bourke Street and have an ornate frontage with steps leading up to Doric columns and facings of Mount Difficult stone. Building was started in 1856 and largely completed by the middle of the 1880s.

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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Parliament House, Brisbane, 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085E/2
Scope and Contents

225 x 180 mm. A similar photograph to C3085C/4, although a slightly different angle. In the time lapse between the two pictures, the road has been surfaced, there are telegraph poles, and the street is lit by gas. A horse no longer browses in front of the main entrance to the building. The extensions to the building have not yet, however, been started.

Dates: 1886
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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Parliament House, Perth, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081B/36
Scope and Contents

200 x 145 mm. A three-quarter front view of the buildings from over the road.

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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Parliament Houses, 1873

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085B/8
Scope and Contents

227 x 175 mm. A three-quarters front view of the Parliament above the Botanical gardens. This photograph shows the House before the additions which made the frontage one side of a rectangular building.

Dates: 1873
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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Parliament Houses, Melbourne (complete design), 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309C/2
Scope and Contents

187 x 134 mm. A photograph of a model of the Victoria Parliament buildings, complete with dome. This dome was never in fact built.

Dates: 1899
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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Parotia Lawesii, Golden Bird of Paradise, 1887 - 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/7/15
Scope and Contents From the File:

Fifteen labelled but undated watercolours on gilt-edged card, each 105 x 165 mm.

Dates: 1887 - 1918
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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Parramatta River from Ryde, Scene of the Great Rowing Matches, 1888 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/101
Scope and Contents

203 x 154 mm. A view looking west up the Parramatta River, which is crossed by an iron girder bridge. In the foreground are scattered houses and fields.

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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Parsley Bay, Sydney Harbour., 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7512
Scope and Contents

Landscape format.

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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Parsley Bay, Sydney Harbour, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7513
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. [Showing man fishing from rocks].

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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Parsley Bay, Sydney Harbour, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7514
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. [Showing lighthouse].

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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[Part of the Botanic Gardens, Melbourne], 1870

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089B/9
Scope and Contents

388 x 272 mm. A view looking along a path in the Gardens, lined with trees and with statues at intervals.

Dates: 1870
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).