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Australia (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2776 Collections and/or Records:

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Hustin’s Ferry, Logan River, 1873

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085A/9
Scope and Contents

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).
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Hustler’s Line of Reef, as seen from Redan Mill, 1875

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087C/4
Scope and Contents 186 x 129 mm. A view looking down on several mine-workings, with tall brick chimneys dotted over the landscape. The different holdings are identified in the key as The Hustler’s Tribute Company, The Great Extended Hustler’s Claim, Great Hustler’s Claim (late Latham and Watson’s), and the Old Hustler’s Claim. The mines represent some of the most productive mines in Bendigo (Hustler, the original owner of the mines died, true to tradition, without a shilling) and in 1875 the Hustler’s mine...
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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Hut on creek, 1900 - 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308H(LS)/19
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

A collection of lantern slides of Australia (plus one duplicate). 5-10 are marked 'Commonwealth of Australia' and have serial numbers. 12-22 are marked 'Department of Agriculture and Stock, Brisbane'. The slides' captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found.

Dates: 1900 - 1940
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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Hyde Park, showing St. Mary's Cathedral, 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086M/10
Scope and Contents

A view across part of the park showing the cathedral behind trees.

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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Hyde Park, Sydney, 1872 - 1895

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086C/20
Scope and Contents

225 x 285 mm. A view of the statue of Captain Cook in Hyde Park, among lawns and trees, with buildings beyond. The statue was unveiled in 1879.

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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Hydraulic sluicing, 'Dumpling Gully', Greenbushes area, 1896 - 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081A/30
Scope and Contents

138 x 82 mm. A view showing a worker operating a hydraulic sluicing pipe in claering at 'Dumpling Gully'. Photograph by H.P. Woodward. Negative No. Film 10.

Dates: 1896 - 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).
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Hydraulic sluicing in the tin face, 1910-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 24/6588
Scope and Contents

Briser's mine, Derby, Tasmania. [Showing man with pump and pipes].

Dates: 1910-01
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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Hydraulic sluicing in the tin face, 1910-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 24/6589
Scope and Contents

Briser's mine, Derby, Tasmania. [Showing man with pump and pipes].

Dates: 1910-01
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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Hydraulic sluicing in the tin face, 1910-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 24/6590
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. Briser's mine, Derby, Tasmania. [Showing man with pump and pipes].

Dates: 1910-01
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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Ic-scratched boulder from Gascoyne Junction area, 1907-09-16

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081A/73
Scope and Contents

151 x 107 mm. A studio photograph showing an ice-scratched boulder from the vicinity of the Arthur River outstation. Photograph by R.H. Irwin. Negative No. 314.

Dates: 1907-09-16
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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Ice scratched boulder, from Gascoyne River area, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081A/57
Scope and Contents

151 x 108 mm. A studio photograph showing an ice scratched boulder (about 5 inches long) taken from a glacial conglomeration between Wooramel and Minilya River. Photograph by A. Purdie. Negative No. 156.

Dates: 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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Immigration buildings. Kangaroo Point, Brisbane, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085O/5
Scope and Contents

200 x 150 mm. A view of the brick building, similar in design to the hospital.

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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Imperial Boy Scouts on guard at Xmas [i.e. Christmas] Camp: each patrol has a special name: this boy is a 'plover., 1909-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 24/6520
Scope and Contents

[No print]. Missing.

Dates: 1909-12
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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Imperial Boy Scouts on guard at Xmas [i.e. Christmas] Camp: each patrol has a special name: this boy is a "plover", 1909-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 24/6521
Scope and Contents

[No print]. Missing.

Dates: 1909-12
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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Improvement in the Yarra at Melbourne, 1888

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087D/48
Scope and Contents

205 x 149 mm. A view in the gardens, with city buildings on the skyline. The ‘improvement in the Yarra’ refers, presumably, to the deepening and straightening of the course of the river in 1888 which gave an extension to the garden area.

Dates: 1888
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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In Fitzroy gardens, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code:  GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/153
Scope and Contents

183 x 130 mm. A view in the gardens, with a fountain in the foreground and trees beyond. The gardens are situated at the east of the central part of the city behind the Parliament and Treasury buildings. The gardens were the creation of James Sinclair, a fine botanical artist, who also in 1850 designed Czar Nicholas gardens at St Petersburg. The Fitzroy Gardens he created out of swampy marshland.

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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In George Street, 1901-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085J/9
Scope and Contents

150 x 105 mm. A view of the Duke and Duchess being driven through George Street in an open coach, with soldiers lining the road, and crowds on the road and on the balconies of buildings.

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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In the Bellinger River District, North Coast, N.S.W, 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086M/55
Scope and Contents

A view of a small country road, with a pony trap crossing a light wooden bridge, and fields, trees and 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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In the 'Devil's Coach House' near the Jenolan Caves, N.S.W., 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7601
Scope and Contents

[Indistinct picture].

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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In the tropical bush near Lake Eacham, North Queensland, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 10/5/7660
Scope and Contents

365 x 265 mm. No print.

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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In Ye Blue Mountains, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/37
Scope and Contents

205 x 156 mm. A view showing a river running through a wooded valley with sheer cliffs rising on either side. Location unidentified, but possibly the Valley of the Grose.

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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In Ye Blue Mountains, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/28
Scope and Contents

156 x 204 mm. A woodland scene, with a fallen tree trunk in the foreground and ferns and woods 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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In Ye Blue Mountains, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/34
Scope and Contents

156 x 207 mm. A view looking between trees and branches showing a frontal view of the Weatherboard (Wentworth) Falls.

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).
 Sub-sub-class

Indemnity claim records and repatriation, 1944 - 1945

 Sub-sub-class
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/30/6
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

These records relate to various associations formed in Australia, India, Ceylon and South Africa by residents of Malaya displaced by the war. They provided information and assistance to evacuees, civilian internees, and prisoners of war.

Rules of the organisations, lists of members, minutes of meetings, memoranda, circulars, indemnity records and related correspondence (343 sheets).

Dates: 1944 - 1945
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reels 8237-8.
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Indian Court: Great Hall, 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087A/54
Scope and Contents

288 x 236 mm. A view of the interior of the Indian Court, with carpets and rugs hanging from the ceiling, and with china and other goods on tables and in display cases.

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).