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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2775 Collections and/or Records:

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Eveleigh Running Sheds, 1872 - 1895

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086E/20
Scope and Contents

345 x 262 mm. A view of the Eveleigh locomotive building works, with an engine outside on the point of entering one of the bays. With the extension of lines it was found that the Sydney terminal could not cope with both maintaining the locomotives and running services. The need for a new building was felt as early as 1875, and shortly afterwards John Whitton presented plans for the new running-sheds, which were built on a 62 acre site purchased by the Government at Redfern.

Dates: 1872 - 1895
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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Eveleigh Running Sheds, 1887

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086E/21
Scope and Contents

346 x 262 mm. A front view of the running sheds, showing the entrance to the 21 engine bays.

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).
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Eveleigh Running Sheds, 1887

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086E/25
Scope and Contents

340 x 262 mm.

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).
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'Evening News' office in Market St., putting up the Election Results, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7491
Scope and Contents

[Pedestrians and horse and carts on the street].

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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'Everlasting' wild flowers, W. [i.e. Western] Australia, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081B/40
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200 x 150 mm. Showing a man standing in a field thick with large daisies. With mountains in the background. A number of species of everlasting daisies occur in Australia, so-called because, the flower when dead, dries retaining a life-like appearance.

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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Excavation of Quartz Reef, near Ironbark Hill, 1875

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087C/7
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185 x 128 mm. A view showing various mines, with piles of rubble and large pieces of quartz in the foreground. Claims identified in the key are Mr. Lansell’s No. 180 Claim, Victoria and New Chum Company, The North Old Chum Claim, and the Old Chum Claim.

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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Exchange, Gresham Street, 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086P/4
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275 x 209 mm. View looking west across Gresham Street, with the eastern façade of the Exchange visible at the right, overlooking Macquarie Place. This two storey building, with composite pilasters running through both floors, was later enlarged by a further two floors. The left hand building, with its first floor windows flanked by paired Ionic columns, housed a number of businesses, among them that of the Land Surveyor Ernest O. Smith.

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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Exhibition Building, 1885 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087D/8
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199 x 140 mm. A view looking across the lake in Carlton Gardens to the Exhibition Buildings, with a central arched entrance which has behind it a large dome. Built in 1879-80 for the International Exhibition, it was the central landmark of the city for many years. Designed by Joseph Reed, the building cost £246,000 and contained 22 acres of floor space.

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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Exhibition Building, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/11
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210 x 152 mm. A view of the baroque building, with its dominating fan-shaped window above the entrance, which was built for the 1870 exhibition, celebrating Captain James Cook’s discovery of Botany Bay in 1770. The building was situated in the Prince Alfred Park behind the railway station and was demolished in 1954 in order to build a swimming pool.

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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Exhibition Buildings, 1888-89, 1888 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/24
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140 x 100 mm. A view of the exhibition buildings from Nicholson Street with Carlton Gardens on the left.

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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Experimental oats, Roma State Farm, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085O/30
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm. Showing a field of oats, with a man standing waist-high amongst the crop.

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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Experimental Steam Engine, Engineering School, Syd. Univ, 1895 - 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086O/47
Scope and Contents

208 x 150 mm. A view showing part of the workings of the machine, which is labelled 'Ruston Proctor and Co. Lincoln, England'.

Dates: 1895 - 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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Experimental wheat crop, Roma State Farm, Roma, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085O/29
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm. Showing a field of wheat, with a briefcase placed in front as an indication of scale.

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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Exporting wheat from Fremantle, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081B/82
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195 x 150 mm. Showing piles of wheat in sacks on the wharf, ready to be loaded aboard the sailing ship at the right. With dockers posing for photographer.

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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Fairy Dell, Leura, Blue Mountains, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086L/20
Scope and Contents

274 x 350 mm. A view of two cascades descending through ferns, with a woman watching the falls at the bottom of the picture. Possibly a subsidiary to the main Leura Falls.

Dates: 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).
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[Fairy Dell Waterfall, Mount Victoria], 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086R/2
Scope and Contents

110 x 183 mm. Print stamped with photographer's name. A view of the waterfall from the pool below, with trees on either side. Mount Victoria, 77 miles from Sydney, is the principal starting point for the Jenolan Caves.

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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Fairy Scene-Fernshaw, 1888 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/57
Scope and Contents

207 x 158 mm. A view in the woods, showing ferns in the foreground, with trees behind.

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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Fallowfields Saltworks, Lynton Station, Hutt Lagoon, 1909-04-22

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081A/19
Scope and Contents

152 x 107 mm. A view showing men at work loading salt into trucks mountd on a wooden railway track. Photograph by W.D. Campbell. Negative No. 525.

Dates: 1909-04-22
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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[Families at meeting], 1910 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011DDD(LS)/116
Scope and Contents

Paper on slide marked: 'T.W. Cameron, Slide Specialist, 430 Bourne Street, Phone MU 4377'.

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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Farm in Tamworth District, New South Wales, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086L/76
Scope and Contents

350 x 274 mm. A view looking along a stream, with horses grazing on the banks and two farmers posing for the camera.

Dates: 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).
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Farm in Tamworth District, New South Wales, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086L/77
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350 x 274 mm. A view of a farm in a valley with cattle grazing, the farm buildings behind and partially cleared hills in the distance.

Dates: 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).
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Farm scene, Northam, Western Australia, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081B/3
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205 x 150 mm. Showing a stream with sheep drinking and grazing, with farm buildings in background. ('Eastern Rly') pencilled on reverse.

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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Farmers dairy herd, Donnybrook, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081B/21
Scope and Contents

205 x 150 mm. Showing herd of cows in field, with woods 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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Farming in the Tamworth District, 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086M/35
Scope and Contents

A view of a farm in a valley with cattle grazing, farm buildings behind and partially cleared hills in the distance.

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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Farming opportunities in Mackay, Queensland

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085T
Scope and Contents A collection of loose photographs (mainly duplicates) measuring approximately 155 x 110 mm, and probably by P T Griffin. Consisting of thirteen different photographs and a mimeographed booklet concerning a cooperative dairy-farming scheme a few miles west of Mackay. The author of the booklet, having bought a tract of land, is attempting to attract investors from England who will go out to Australia and build up the area's productive capacity. A large part of the booklet is devoted to...
Dates: 1923
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).