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Australia (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2776 Collections and/or Records:

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A wattle E.J.D discovered growin (sic) on the Victoria River and called after him by the Director of Kew Gardens 'Acacia Dunni', 1886 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305L/7
Scope and Contents

191 x 198 mm. Showing Edward John Dunn standing beside two young wattle trees.

Dates: 1886 - 1920
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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A Wool Show-Room, Sydney, 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086M/44
Scope and Contents

An interior view of a large warehouse filled with sacks of different grades of wool.

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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A wool showroom, Sydney, 1885 - 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086U/8
Scope and Contents

195 x 150 mm. A view of a warehouse interior, showing long lines of sacks overflowing with various types of wool. Negative number 2620.

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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A.A. Company No 2, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/60
Scope and Contents

242 x 178 mm. A view looking across to the Australian Agricultural Company’s second pit, with loaded railway trucks in the foreground and the colliery works and machinery beyond.

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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Aboriginal Arch, George St Brisbane (Caption on print), 1901-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085J/11
Scope and Contents

205 x 155 mm. A view of the arch, with the crowds in front and the Lamington Hotel behind.

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).
 Fonds

Aboriginal Australian Art

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308K
Scope and Contents

Loose prints produced by the Australian Information Service. The printed captions on the reverse have been recorded as found.

Dates: 1973
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).
 Sub-Fonds

Aboriginal Australian drawings, 1897

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/20
Scope and Contents

Two original Zulu drawings dated March 1897 with descriptions on the reverse.

Dates: 1897
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

Aboriginal Australian portraits, 1836

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/64
Scope and Contents

Five framed prints of engravings 'printed and sold by J.G. Austin & Co., No. 12, Bridge Street, Sydney'. The captions have been recorded as found and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation.

Dates: 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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[Aboriginal Australian women and child], 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/116
Scope and Contents

150 x 198 m A very fine study of three women, the youngest of whom, at the right, holds a sleeping child on her lap.

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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[Aboriginal Australian women and children], 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/120
Scope and Contents

152 x 193 mm. A view showing two seated women with two children lying on the ground to their left beneath a bark windbreak.

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).
 Fonds

Aboriginal Australians

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308J
Scope and Contents

Book containing two portrait images.

Dates: 1881
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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Aboriginal bark painting, 1973

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308K/1
Scope and Contents

250 x 165 mm. This bark painting from Australia's Northern Territory is shown by Aboriginal healers to young men on being accepted into society after their initiation rites. The painting indicates the paths that are taken by certain Aboriginal families into a central corroboree ground, in this case situated in the Whistle Duck country. Produced by the Australian Information Service.

Dates: 1973
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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Aboriginal cave paintings, Kununurra, Western Australia, 1973

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308K/3
Scope and Contents

250 x 165 mm. Produced by the Australian Information Service.

Dates: 1973
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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Aboriginal Cottages-Gippsland, 1888 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/87
Scope and Contents

197 x 149 mm. A view showing a row of cottages leading down a slope to the lakeside, with Australian Aboriginal men and women (in European clothes) standing in front of their verandahs. Photographer possibly Charles Bayliss (Y308A/90).

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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Aboriginal decorations, Greenough River, Geraldton area, 1906-04-14

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081A/70
Scope and Contents

152 x 107 mm. A view showing aboriginal palm prints stenciled ona rock face, probably in the shelter seen in the preceding plate. Photograph by W.D. Campbell. Negative No. 264.

Dates: 1906-04-14
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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Aboriginal Display, 1901-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085J/19
Scope and Contents

105 x 150 mm. An Aboriginal Australian about to hurl a spear.

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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Aboriginal Display, 1901-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085J/20
Scope and Contents

150 x 105 mm. A group of Aboriginal Australians wrestling, while one man wearing a kangaroo skin stands in the background.

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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Aboriginal Display, 1901-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085J/21
Scope and Contents

150 x 105 mm. A continuation from Y3085J/20. Aboriginal Australians sit on the ground or stand, some with boomerangs, while a man in a kangaroo skin crouches with his back to the camera.

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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Aboriginal Display, 1901-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085J/22
Scope and Contents

150 x 105 mm. Showing Aboriginal Australians with raised hands, with a man dressed in a kangaroo skin to their right.

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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Aboriginal Display, 1901-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085J/23
Scope and Contents

150 x 105 mm. Showing Aboriginal Australians doing gymnastics, with men doing handstands over a line on their hands and feet.

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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Aboriginal Display, 1901-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085J/24
Scope and Contents

150 x 105 mm. Showing Aboriginal Australians on their hands and knees, while a man in a kangaroo skin leaps between them.

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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Aboriginal Display, 1901-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085J/25
Scope and Contents

205 x 130 mm Showing a line of Aboriginal Australians holding spears, boomerangs and painted shields.

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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Aboriginal Display, 1901-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085J/26
Scope and Contents

205 x 130 mm. Showing a group of Aboriginal Australians in a semi-circle around a man wearing kangaroo skin. The sequence of photographs possibly represents a symbolic hunt, although Wallace, who describes the event in ‘The Web of Empire’, makes no specific mention of it.

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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Aboriginal Display, 1901-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085J/27
Scope and Contents

155 x 110 mm. Photograph showing a mock fight between A. Meston (see Y3085J/18) and an Aboriginal Australian. Photograph blurred through movement.

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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Aboriginal group, Australia, 1900 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011W/7
Scope and Contents

140 x 82 mm. Portrait of four Aboriginal Australians, their bodies decorated with paint and holding spears, with similar figures in the background.

Dates: 1900 - 1909
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).