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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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[Honeyeaters], 1919 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/2/48
Scope and Contents

Possibly by Violet Artah Bartlett, fl 1919-1930, although the signature is different from the other examples of her work in the collection.

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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[Hooded parrot], 1919 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/2/25
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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Hornsby Light, Sydney, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086J/30
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190 x 140 mm. A view of the lighthouse on a cliff, with the harbour beyond. A thirty foot high tower, painted in red and white vertical stripes, the building was erected at Inner South Head in 1858 and named after Admiral Sir Phipps Hornsby, Commander-in-Chief of the British Pacific Fleet in the 1860's.

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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[Horse corrals on shore], 1899 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M/42
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm. Shows corrals and wooden buildings, with railway trucks behind.

Dates: 1899 - 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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[Horse corrals on shore], 1899 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M/43
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200 x 150 mm. Similar to Y308m/42, but showing more on the left and a sailing ship at anchor beyond the trucks.

Dates: 1899 - 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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[Horse corrals on shore], 1899 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M/44
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm. Y308M/43 shows more of the left hand building. Scene as in Y308M/42.

Dates: 1899 - 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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[Horse corrals on shore, with unidentified ship in the background], 1899 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M/39
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm.

Dates: 1899 - 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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[Horse corrals on shore, with unidentified ship in the background], 1899 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M/40
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm.

Dates: 1899 - 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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[Horse corrals on shore, with unidentified ship in the background], 1899 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M/41
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm.

Dates: 1899 - 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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[Horses ascending gangway, seen from the shore], 1899 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M/25
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm.

Dates: 1899 - 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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[Horses ascending gangway, seen from the shore], 1899 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M/26
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm.

Dates: 1899 - 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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[Horses being driven between hurdles to gangway; view of the quayside looking down from the ship], 1899 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M/23
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm.

Dates: 1899 - 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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[Horses being sent up the gangway], 1899 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M/13
Scope and Contents

200 x 150mm.

Dates: 1899 - 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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Horses clearing land, 1885 - 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086U/5
Scope and Contents

192 x 149 mm. A view showing a team of 12 horses working in a large pit. Uncaptioned on front or back apart from negative number 424.

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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[Horses crossing a waterside railway track and walking up a gangway (seen from ship). Bales of hay strewn about], 1899 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M/24
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm.

Dates: 1899 - 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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[Horses in central stabling being fed, with men gathered round], 1899 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M/32
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm.

Dates: 1899 - 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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Hospital, Brisbane-from Bowen Bridge Road, 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085E/11
Scope and Contents

230 x 180 mm. A notice by the gate informs us that visiting days were Sunday, Wednesday and Saturday from 2 till 5 p.m. The hospital is now in the centre of the city. In 1867, when it was opened, there was anger at its being built so far out of town.

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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Hospital, Warwick, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085D/14
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195 x 145 mm. The hospital and outbuildings taken from a field in front of the fence. An imposing stone building with verandahs on the ground and first floor.

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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Hot House, Acclimatisation Gardens, 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085E/36
Scope and Contents

230 x 175 mm. View inside a greenhouse, showing various plants.

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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Hot House, Acclimatisation Gardens., 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085E/37
Scope and Contents

225 x 175 mm. A very similar photograph to Y3085E/36.

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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Hotel Kosciusko - Summer, 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086M/62
Scope and Contents

A view looking across a river towards the ski-resort hotel, with no snow visible at this time of year.

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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Hudson Saw Mills, Botany Street, 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086P/58
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281 x 213 mm. General view looking along Botany Street towards the Hudson Brothers' Saw Mills, an imposing three storey factory with the narrow façade of the building facing onto the road. One of the posters stuck to the wooden fence in the foreground advertises a meeting of the Randwick Racing Club on Saturday 29 April. See note on dating in introduction to this collection.

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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Hughenden Bore in progress Nov 1894, 1894-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085K/24
Scope and Contents

180 x 140 mm. Showing the derrick with people, traps and horses grouped around. From the derrick fly two flags, the Union Jack, and another on which the lettering is too blurred to be decipherable. Probably taken during a fair or exhibition to judge by the tents and marquees in the distance.

Dates: 1894-11
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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Hunting Camp River Murray, 1888 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/89
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200 x 149 mm. A photograph showing a group of Aboriginal Australians (in European dress) with two hunting dogs, holding spears and standing in front of wooden cabins, with the river in the background.

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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Hustin’s Ferry, Logan River, 1873

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085A/9
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390 x 133 mm. A panoramic view of a curve in the river taken from a garden by the riverside, with the ferry carrying a horse and wagon in the middle distance. The signs of ground clearing, and the fairly untrained nature of the garden, would make it seem probable that this was an area newly settled in 1873.

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).