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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2776 Collections and/or Records:

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Loading sleepers for South Africa, Sydney harbour, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086K/23
Scope and Contents

A view looking down on to a pier piled with timber which is being loaded on to the steamer moored alongside.

Dates: 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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Local Court House, Adelaide, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082A/8
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 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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'Long Ridge', 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308698A/10
Scope and Contents

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).

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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Long Window, 1895 - 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086O/14
Scope and Contents

57 x 105 mm. A view of the stained glass window depicting Sir Thomas More, the Earl of Surrey and Edmund Spenser.

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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Longfield Farm, near Mullumbimby, North Coast District, N.S.W, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086K/58
Scope and Contents

A view of cattle in a field, with cleared land and hills beyond.

Dates: 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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Longfield Farm, near Mullumbimby, North Coast District, N.S.W. [i.e. New South Wales], 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086L/72
Scope and Contents

350 x 274 mm. A view of horses and cattle grazing on partially cleared land, with mountains on the horizon.

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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Looking through the arch of the Devil's Coach House, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7602
Scope and Contents

Jenolan Caves, N. S.W. [View of cliffs, with tree 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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Looking through the arch of the Devil's Coach House, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7603
Scope and Contents

Jenolan Caves, N. S.W. [View of cliffs, with tree 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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Looking up a gorge on the Mount Lyell line, 1910-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 24/6567
Scope and Contents From the File: This album now contains photographs numbered in the ranges 6178-6238A and 6501-6612 (originally there were 167). Added numbers are 6238A, 6515A and 6547A; spoiled: 6198; not used: 6210, 6212, 6217, 6228, 6232, 6502, 6604 and 6611; missing: 6184, 6197, 6199, 6205, 6209, 6211, 6220, 6230, 6233, 6235, 6501, 6513-6516, 6520-6521, 6527-6529, 6538, 6540, 6545, 6552-6554, 6556-65563, 6565, 6582, 6600-6602, 6605-6606 and 6608.Subjects covered in this album are: Malta: views from sea -...
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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Lords Hotel at Scottsdale, Tasmania, 1910-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 24/6573
Scope and Contents

Landscape. [Near wooden building of Lords Hotel with balcony and more similar buildings beyond up the street].

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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[Lory parrot], 1919 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/2/36
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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Lot's Wife, and the Cockatoo, Wombeyan Caves, 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086M/29
Scope and Contents

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.

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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Low tide : pearling fleet, Broome, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081B/47
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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.

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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Lunatic Asylum [historic title], 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/128
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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.

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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[Lutheran Church], 1870

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089B/12
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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.

Dates: 1870
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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Lydiard St, Ballarat, 1885 - 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087D/53
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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.

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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[Lyre bird], 1919 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/2/33
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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Lyrup Pumping Station, 1892

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082B/9
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1892
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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Lyrup Vineyard and Flume, 1892

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3082B/8
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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.

Dates: 1892
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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Macleay Museum, 1895 - 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086O/53
Scope and Contents

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.

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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Macleay Museum, University of Sydney, 1895 - 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086O/54
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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.

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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Macquarie Lighthouse, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086J/27
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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.

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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Macquarie Street North, 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086P/14
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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.

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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Macquarie Street, Sydney, 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086K/17
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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.

Dates: 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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[Magpie], 1900 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/2/3
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: 1900 - 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).