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Australia (nation)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2776 Collections and/or Records:

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BCA [i.e. Bush Church Aid] hospital patients, Ceduna, S.A. [i.e. South Australia], 1910 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011DDD(LS)/99
Scope and Contents From the Series:

A series of slides showing the CCCS's work among rural communities in Australia.

Dates: 1910 - 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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BCA [i.e. Bush Church Aid] nurse with patient and visitor, 1910 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011DDD(LS)/95
Scope and Contents

Coloured.

Dates: 1910 - 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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Beam Bridge over the Wollondilly River, near Goulbourn, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086F/71
Scope and Contents

342 x 280 mm. A side view of the long wooden bridge with supporting piers composed of closely spaced wooden beams. No water can be seen in the river. 'H. Weaver, Engineer' printed at corner of page.

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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Bearded wheat on swampland, Narrugin (Mr Brookes), 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081B/71
Scope and Contents

205 x 150 mm. Showing wheat growing in marshy ground, with wooded land 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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Beautifully linked, 1844

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/65/2
Scope and Contents 'Political sketches by B.B no. 3'. The cartoon dates from around the same period as RCMS 278/65/1, and may be by Benjamin Bailey, an obscure printer of the time. It satirises the agitation by residents of the Port Phillip District (now Victoria) for separation from New South Wales. New South Wales is depicted as a convict crone, with Hyde Park barracks in the background. The figures on the left are three of the six representatives of Port Phillip on the N.S.W. Legislative Council. Two...
Dates: 1844
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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Beira, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M/4
Scope and Contents

200 x 155 mm. Beira, of the British and Colonial Steam Navigation Co., sailed from Newcastle on 17 March 1900.

Dates: 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).
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[Bend in river], 1900 - 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308H(LS)/22
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 - 1940
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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Bend of the River Watt, 1877 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087L/23
Scope and Contents

189 x 133 mm. Showing a curve in the River Watt in the valley between Mount Juliet and Mount Monda with fern and other trees on either bank.

Dates: 1877 - 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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Bend of the River Watt, Fernshaw, 1888 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/54
Scope and Contents

205 x 160 mm. A view of a curve in the river, with ferns and trees on either bank.

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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Bendemeer Bridge, Macdonald River, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086F/47
Scope and Contents

257 x 168 mm. Information given states '1 span of 100 feet, 2 of 90 feet, laminated arches, 2 approach spans, total length 340 feet'. A side view from the river bank of the bridge, resting on wooden piers and with 3 laminated wooden arches.

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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Bendemeer Bridge, Macdonald River, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086F/48
Scope and Contents

196 x 147 mm. A view of the bridge showing 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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Bendigo Flat as seen from Wattle Hill, 1875

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087C/34
Scope and Contents

180 x 124 mm. A view looking over a former goldfield, with excavated land in the foreground, and small domestic houses beyond. The text beneath the picture reads ‘This flat twenty years since, was a busy scene with its thousands of diggers, breaking the native soil in search of gold. The canvas tents then used have long since given place to the more solid and comfortable domiciles constructed of wood and bricks’. A better print of the same photograph occurs in Y308A/76.

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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Bendigo gold production

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087F
Scope and Contents

154 x 170 mm. Mounted photograph. Shows cubes of various sizes representing the relative outputs of different mines. The fronts of the cubes have printed on them information about size, dividends and value. A printed caption stuck beneath the photograph states: 'The above 27 companies represent a paid-up capital of £437,631. Value for gold produced, £6,132,544. Dividends paid, £3,131,355. Approximate value of the 27 mines and machinery, £2,000,000.

Dates: 1880
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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Bendigo Law Courts, 1885 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087D/27
Scope and Contents

148 x 194 mm. A view looking along Pall Mall in Bendigo, with its broad tree-lined pavement. In fact only a small corner of the Law Courts can be seen. The main building in the picture, with the clocktower, is the Bendigo Post Office opened in 1887.

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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Benevolent House, Ballarat, 1888 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/75
Scope and Contents

202 x 150 mm. A rather dark print showing the front façade of the building; various wings were still being added in 1887.

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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Between Guildford and Zeehan, Tasmania, 1910-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 24/6539
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. [View down wooded hillside].

Dates: 1910-01
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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Big Rock : Sydney Harbour, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7515
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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Big Tree-Dead Snake on Post, 1888 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/45
Scope and Contents

100 x 138 mm. A view showing the figures from Y308A/43-44 grouped at the base of a large tree. A dead snake is draped over a milepost which shows Mt Arnold to be three miles distant.

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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Billabong, Goulbourn River, 1885 - 1891

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087D/67
Scope and Contents

203 x 149 mm. A view of a billabong, with a bridge crossing it in the background. Billabong is an Aboriginal Australian term for stretches of water or pools, issuing off from the main river and appearing mainly in times of flooding or heavy rain.

Dates: 1885 - 1891
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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Bills of Rowland Childers, 1874 - 1881

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 37/17
Scope and Contents

175 receipted bills from Harrow, Oxford and Melbourne, settled by his father H.C.E. Childers

Dates: 1874 - 1881
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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Birds Eye View, from F.B. Tower, Melbourne, 1885 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087D/42
Scope and Contents

211 x 158 mm. A view looking down from the tower, presumably of the Federal Bank, towards the harbour, which can be glimpsed in the distance. Government House, in the Domain, can be seen at the left in the distance.

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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Black Mountain Yass Canberra Site, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7630
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. [Scattered trees with Black Mountain in the backgrond].

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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Black Mountain Yass Canberra Site. Note willows marking the bed of the Molongo River., 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7631
Scope and Contents

[No print]. [Missing].

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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Blast Furnace, Lithgow Ironworks, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086K/37
Scope and Contents

A view of the blast furnace, isolated in the countryside, with mined earth in the foreground.

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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[Blaxlands sheep sheering sheds], 1928-08-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353/4/30
Scope and Contents

Print at RCMS 353/2/155.

Dates: 1928-08-30
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).