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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2776 Collections and/or Records:

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Federal Coffee Palace, 1888 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/15
Scope and Contents

138 x 185 mm. A view of the hotel from the junction of King Street and Collins Street, showing men at work on the telegraph poles outside.

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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Federal Coffee Palace, 1885 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087D/7
Scope and Contents

145 x 198 mm. A view of this elaborate hotel which stands at the corner of King Street and Collins Street, and was built in the early 1880s at the height of the construction boom. The façade of the building shows a bewildering extravagance of decoration and mixed architectural styles.

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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Federal Government House, Sydney, N. S. Wales, 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086M/1
Scope and Contents

A view of the front of the house, first occupied by Governor Gipps in 1845, and built with mock battlements and turrets.

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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Fern Bower, 1888 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/48
Scope and Contents

201 x 150 mm. A view of fern-bearing trees among thick woodland, with two men posing for the camera.

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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Fern Bridge Gully Black Spur, 1877 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087L/19
Scope and Contents

189 x 132 mm. A view looking down onto the wooded bridge, built with the trunks of fern trees and crossing one of the sources of the River Watt. The bridge was situated near the summit of the Black Spur, about two miles from Fernshaw.

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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Fern Grove, near Mount Mundy, 1877 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087L/11
Scope and Contents

185 x 132 mm. Showing dense woodland and large fern trees between Mount Mundy and Mount Juliet.

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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Fern Gully at Gembrook, 1885 - 1891

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087D/74
Scope and Contents

146 x 204 mm. A woodland scene showing trees and tall ferns.

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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[?] Fern Street, 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086P/6
Scope and Contents

272 x 204 mm. View looking across a street towards an unidentified group of verandahed houses. The pencilled caption is largely 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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Fern Tree Bower, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/185
Scope and Contents

188 x 103 mm. A forest scene amongst trees and ferns, with the monument of the Hobart Town Corporation Waterworks situated in a small clearing among the trees. For a similar view of this scene see Y3088A/1.

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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Ferns, Botanic Gardens, Brisbane, 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085E/42
Scope and Contents

235 x 180 mm. A general view of the fern garden.

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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Ferns, etc. Acclimatisation Gardens, 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085E/38
Scope and Contents

235 x 180 mm. Another view of various plants in the Gardens.

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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Fernshaw ‘Big Ben’450 ft high 56 ft Girth 1200 years old, 1888 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/62
Scope and Contents

203 x 159 mm. A view of the base of this huge tree, with three men standing beside it. The dimensions should be treated with scepticism.

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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Ferry boat coming from Circular Quay : Sydney Harbour, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7483
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. [Steam ferry].

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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Ferryboat, Sydney Harbour, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7524
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. [Also showing smoking steamer and sailing ship].

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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Field of maize, Bungulla, N.S.W., 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7522A
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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Fig tree and native vine on the Logan River, 1873

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085A/3
Scope and Contents

205 x 150 mm. The vine curls up the trunk of this 75 ft fig tree, set in a sugar cane plantation, while at the base of the tree stand four figures, with three more figures at various points on the tree itself. The vine appears to be well over a foot in diameter.

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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Fijian Court, 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087A/28
Scope and Contents

288 x 235 mm. A view of the crowded Fijian section, showing its produce such as spears, clubs, cloth and cotton.

Dates: 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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Fireworks Display, 1901-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085J/28
Scope and Contents

155 x 110 mm. A picture of the King and Queen made of lights with the message ‘1901 God Bless our King and Queen’. The firework display took place at Government House on the 22nd of May and was ‘said to be the finest pyrotechnic display ever seen in the Southern Hemisphere’.

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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Fireworks Display, 1901-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085J/29
Scope and Contents

155 x 110 mm A similar picture to Y3085J/28, with the Duke and Duchess of York depicted.

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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Fireworks Display, 1901-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085J/30
Scope and Contents

105 x 150 mm. A time exposure of rockets bursting in the sky

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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Fireworks Display, 1901-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085J/31
Scope and Contents

150 x 105 mm. A time exposure of rockets bursting.

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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Fireworks Display, 1901-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085J/32
Scope and Contents

160 x 115 mm. Time exposure of fireworks on the ground, behind the structure used for Y3085J/28.

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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Fireworks Display, 1901-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085J/33
Scope and Contents

2 prints 105 x 95 mm. and 110 x 110 mm. Two more time exposures of fireworks (a) of rockets bursting in sky, (b) similar to Y3085J/32.

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).
 Sub-Fonds

First judicial decision in Victoria, 1960 - 1989

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/38
Scope and Contents

An undated facsimile copy of the judicial decision given with regard to a series of petty disputes between Henry Batman and J.P. Fawkener, 2 May 1836. The signatories are A. Thomson, John Aitken and James Simpson.

Dates: 1960 - 1989
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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[First word illegible] congregation outside 'church', S.A. [i.e. South Australia], 1910 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011DDD(LS)/105
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).