Australia (nation)
Found in 2776 Collections and/or Records:
Loading sleepers for South Africa, Sydney harbour, 1908
A view looking down on to a pier piled with timber which is being loaded on to the steamer moored alongside.
Local Court House, Adelaide, 1890
260 x 195 mm. A front view of the court, with an imposing Roman Doric portico, which stands in King William Street. Built for the Police Court in 1867, when William Hanson was Colonial Architect, it became the Local and Insolvency Courts in 1891.
'Long Ridge', 1885
Facing p.36, referred to on p.41. 'An avenue of stately pine trees crosses the island from the Melanesian Mission Station to the Town' (Spruson, p.41).
Long Window, 1895 - 1900
57 x 105 mm. A view of the stained glass window depicting Sir Thomas More, the Earl of Surrey and Edmund Spenser.
Longfield Farm, near Mullumbimby, North Coast District, N.S.W, 1908
A view of cattle in a field, with cleared land and hills beyond.
Longfield Farm, near Mullumbimby, North Coast District, N.S.W. [i.e. New South Wales], 1909
350 x 274 mm. A view of horses and cattle grazing on partially cleared land, with mountains on the horizon.
Looking through the arch of the Devil's Coach House, 1910
Jenolan Caves, N. S.W. [View of cliffs, with tree behind].
Looking through the arch of the Devil's Coach House, 1910
Jenolan Caves, N. S.W. [View of cliffs, with tree behind].
Looking up a gorge on the Mount Lyell line, 1910-01
Lords Hotel at Scottsdale, Tasmania, 1910-01
Landscape. [Near wooden building of Lords Hotel with balcony and more similar buildings beyond up the street].
[Lory parrot], 1919 - 1930
Lot's Wife, and the Cockatoo, Wombeyan Caves, 1911
A view of two strange stalacmite formations, which take the general form of a human and of a bird. The Wombeyan Caves are somewhat less spectacular than the Jenolan Caves, and are situated about 30 miles west of Mittagong.
Low tide : pearling fleet, Broome, 1910
200 x 145 mm. Showing four pearl ships on the sand, with a pier behind them. Broome, on the western side of Dampier Land, at Roebuck Bay, replaced Cossack as the main Australian pearling port in the 1890s. By 1903 Broome supported 300 pearling vessels.
Lunatic Asylum [historic title], 1870 - 1880
187 x 135 mm. A view looking across the Yarra, towards a hill on top of which stands the asylum, a long low building with a tower each side of the central entrance.
[Lutheran Church], 1870
387 x 274 mm. A view looking across Gisborne Street towards the Lutheran Church which looks on to Parliament Place. With the Fitzroy Gardens in the background.
Lydiard St, Ballarat, 1885 - 1901
196 x 147 mm. A view looking down Lydiard Street, towards Sturt Street and beyond, with the Post Office beyond the junction on the right.
[Lyre bird], 1919 - 1930
Lyrup Pumping Station, 1892
270 x 215 mm. A fine study of a group of settlers and children, with the pumping station steam engine to the left, and logs for fuel piled in front. With the River Murray serving as a background.
Lyrup Vineyard and Flume, 1892
270 x 220 mm. Showing a field of vines, with farm buildings in the background and the flume, a raised water channel, running along the perimeter of the field.
Macleay Museum, 1895 - 1900
204 x 136 mm. An exterior view of the museum, a turretted brick building, taken from beside the Great Hall. The tower of the School of Engineering can be seen in the distance.
Macleay Museum, University of Sydney, 1895 - 1900
211 x 153 mm. An interior view of the museum looking down from the gallery on to the display cases on the ground floor. the museum came into being by the gifts of Sir William Macleay's collection of natural history specimens in 1888. He also paid for the building, the employment of a curator, and numerous fellowships.
Macquarie Lighthouse, 1885
140 x 190 mm. A view of the lighthouse situated at South Head, with the barrel of a cannon lying in the grass in front. A simple and solid design, which was originally produced by Francis Greenway on Governor Macquarie's orders, it was completed in 1817 and earned Greenway, who was a convict, his freedom; it was the first lighthouse to be built in Australia. This photograph is of a copy of Greenway's original building, and was opened in 1883.
Macquarie Street North, 1870 - 1879
267 x 202 mm. View looking along Macquarie Street, with a row of three storey terrace houses in the foreground. The building in the background appears to be the Free Library at the junction of Bent Street and Macquarie Street. The terraced houses in the foreground are handsomely proportioned buildings with slender arched doorways and cast-iron balconies on the first floor. They would appear to date from around the mid-1840s.
Macquarie Street, Sydney, 1908
A view looking down the west side of Macquarie Street, showing the residential houses. The house partially seen on the extreme right of the picture is probably 'Burdekin House', opposite the Sydney Hospital. Built in 1841, it was regarded as 'the most handsome house in Sydney'. It was demolished in 1933.