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Australia (nation)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2775 Collections and/or Records:

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Creek Street, Brisbane from Queen Street, 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085E/21
Scope and Contents

260 x 200 mm. Photograph taken from the cross-roads, showing the Union Bank at the right of the picture.

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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[Crimson wing parrot], 1900 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/2/16
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: 1900 - 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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[Crimson wing parrot], 1919 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/2/24
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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Crop of Canary seed in stook, Hermitage State Farm, Warwick, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085O/35
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm. A general view of cropped field, with stooks piled up.

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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Crossing a Billabong, Riverina, 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086M/39
Scope and Contents

A river scene showing a path leading down to a ford, with a small herd of cattle in the water, and horsemen and a pony-trap.

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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Crossing a coastal lake, 1885 - 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086U/20
Scope and Contents

200 x 151 mm. A view on the seashore, showing four large bullock teams, with drivers standing on small wagons at the rear, moving through the water towards a distant headland. Negative number 644.

Dates: 1885 - 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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Crown Street ... [caption partly illegible], 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086P/31
Scope and Contents

272 x 197 mm. View looking along a row of small terraced houses, probably built in the early 1860s in Crown Street. The portion of the caption stating from where the picture was taken is illegible.

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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Crow's Nest Waterfall, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085O/42
Scope and Contents

150 x 200 mm. A view of the falls from below, with seven figures posed at the top. About sixty miles west of Brisbane.

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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Cruise of the Yacht St George, 1880s-92

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011P
Scope and Contents

A collection of loose modern prints measuring approximately 245 x 180 mm. This prints were copied from an album containing 53 prints compiled during the voyage. Included with the prints are xeroxes of the original explanatory captions. The R.Y.S. 'St George' was owned by Ernest James Wythes (1868-1949); the compiler and/or photographer has not been identified.

Dates: 1979
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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Cultivation on the Logan, 1873

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085A/5
Scope and Contents

205 x 150 mm. A general view of fenced off cropland, with the river Logan in the background and 3 European figures with dog standing by the fence.

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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[Cultivator drawn by horses at Roseworth Agricultural College], 1928-08-16

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353/4/26
Scope and Contents

Print at RCMS 353/2/130.

Dates: 1928-08-16
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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Custom House, 1901-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085J/6
Scope and Contents

205 x 155 mm A view of the Custom House from another angle, and farther back, showing the streamers criss-crossing the street outside.

Dates: 1901-05
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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Custom House, 1901-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085J/7
Scope and Contents

210 x 135 mm. A view from further back still, showing the whole building and more of the street.

Dates: 1901-05
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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Cutten Bros Station, Bicton, Clump Point, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085O/60
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm. A view looking down on the station, with beach and sea to the left, and with steep, wooded hills in background.

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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Cutting cowpea and sorghum and filling silo at Biggenden State Farm, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085P/3
Scope and Contents

165 x 215 mm. A black and white print, probably later than the other two prints in this collection, showing three horses, attached to machinery to work the silo, with men behind cutting the crop and loading the silo.

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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Cutting Lucerne (Alfalfa), Brookfield, near Brisbane, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085O/10
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm. Showing a horse-drawn harvester in a partially cropped field of alfalfa. Caption on reverse reads '4 to 7 crops yearly Q'land.'

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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'Cutting out', 1885 - 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086U/18
Scope and Contents

199 x 151 mm. A view of a coralled herd of cattle, with two steers being separated from the herd by horsemen. Negative number 2864.

Dates: 1885 - 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).
 Fonds

Cuttings on the Queensland sugar industry

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 294
Scope and Contents A bound volume containing 212 pages of 'newspaper cuttings relating to the Queensland Sugar Industry 1878-1884. Hy Ling Roth, late Hon Secretary Mackay Planters and Farmers Association'. The newspapers include the 'Queenslander', 'Mackay Standard', 'Mackay Mercury', 'Australasian', 'Maryborough Chronicle', 'The Week', 'Brisbane Observer' and 'Queensland Punch'. The subject matter includes many aspects of the Australian sugar industry and reviews, mostly hostile, of Roth's book, 'A report...
Dates: 1878 - 1884
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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Dacelo gigas [Laughing kookaburra], 1887 - 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/7/1
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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Dacelo gigas [Laughing kookaburra], 1887 - 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/7/2
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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Dairy cattle at Queensland Agricultural College, Gatton, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085O/32
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm. Showing a herd of cattle grazing in pastureland.

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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Dairy Cattle on farm near Atherton: note the big fig tree, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7577
Scope and Contents From the File: The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 7455-7491; 7334-7344 and 7494-7634. Added numbers are: 7519A-7528A; spoiled: 7484-7486, 7525, 7562, 7611-7614, 7621 and 7626; not used: 7459-7460, 7463, 7526-7528, 7336, 7340, 7543-7544; missing: 7455-7456, 7458, 7462, 7464, 7471, 7473, 7476, 7480, 7489, 7334-7335, 7337-7339, 7341, 7533, 7535-7537, 7540-7541, 7547, 7550, 7560-7561, 7570, 7585, 7608, 7618, 7620, 7624, 7631. The photographs are not arranged totally in numerical order...
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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Dairy herd, Brunswick [Brunswick Junction ?], 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081B/15
Scope and Contents

205 x 150 mm. Showing herd in a field.

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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Dairy herd, Brunswick [Brunswick Junction ?], S.W. line, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081B/13
Scope and Contents

205 x 150 mm. Showing herd of cows by a stream.

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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Dairy Herd - near Possum Ck., Nth. Coast District, N.S.W, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086K/27
Scope and Contents

A view of a field of cows, with a farm and newly cleared land beyond.

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).