Coloured and monochrome postcards, including six which were sent by The Royal Geographical Society of Australia, advertising monthly meetings (60-65).

Colour and black and white postcards, mainly of Queensland, including birds and animals of Australia.

Originally entitled Bulletin.

290 x 231 mm. A view showing fishing and agricultural produce from Queensland, with a pyramid built of oyster shells in the foreground.

Coloured postcards

Album containing seventy three coloured lithographic plans and elevations, pages measuring 200 x 335 mm. of various country buildings to be made of wood, with additions such as fences and gates, drawn to various scales. The title on the front cover is blocked in gold and reads: 'Queensland Court/Colonial and Indian Exhibition/Queensland State Schools. /Lithographed plans/ of /Country Buildings etc. /With additions complete / Constructed of Hardwood.'

205 x 155 mm. A view showing the front of the house from the drive.

[No print]. Missing.

103 x 142 mm. Photographic copy of Robert Lewis Parker (1862-1948) of Tasmania, a Life Fellow of the Royal Empire Society. He was an Associate Commissioner of the Hydro-Electric Department of the Government of Tasmania until 1936.

205 x 150 mm. View showing sugar plantation on right and sheds, still in the process of being built, on the left, with the river in the background. The picture has been taken from the roof of one of the sheds (which can be seen at bottom of picture), and this gives an aerial sense of perspective. The date of this picture is at the height of the expansion of the sugar industry in Queensland, sugar being first manufactured near the Hastings River in 1823.

190 x 140 mm. A view from the side of the river looking along the bridge, which has steel supports and girders.

190 x 140 mm. A view from the side of the river looking along the bridge, which has steel supports and girders.

138 x 82 mm. A view from above looking down on the iron girder railway bridge, part of the Newcastle to Sydney system, which was opened in 1889. It was also the final link in the railway system, which now extended from Brisbane to Adelaide, via Melbourne and Sydney. The bridge was designed by John Whitton and was the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. It was situated in New South Wales.

About this time Kelsey changed from the Western Australia Railway to the Trans-Australian Railway at Kalgoorlie.

About this time Kelsey changed from the Western Australia Railway to the Trans-Australian Railway at Kalgoorlie.

229 x 190 mm. A view of part of the Lithgow zig-zag, the engineering feat of John Whitton which allowed the railway to descend on a manageable gradient from the Blue Mountains. For a fine panorama of the Lithgow zig-zag, and more detail on its construction see Y3086E/51.

233 x 181 mm. A view of another section of the Lithgow zig-zag.

199 x 147 mm. A view looking along a wharf, on both sides of which steamers and sailing ships are moored, with a railway line along the pier. Williamstown is at the extremity of a curving spit of land which forms the Western Half of Hobson’s Bay and extends out into Port Phillip.

260 x 205 mm. View from a hill behind the station, showing covered platform with a passenger train in the station, and a goods train just outside. Two pony cabs wait alongside the platform. The first section of railway in Queensland was from Ipswich to Bigges Camp (now Grandchester) and was opened on 31st July 1865. Brisbane, however, was not connected to the railway system until 1875.

230 x 160 mm. A view of the station buildings, with a pony and trap outside.

260 x 200 mm. A view of the station from the line, showing several locomotives, with signals and sidings. Adelaide’s first railway station was built in 1856, but that building was incorporated into the larger station seen here in about 1876.

235 x 180 mm. Photograph shows the raised line of a metal girder bridge crossing the Condamine

345 x 262 mm. A good view of the interior of a railway workshop, showing partially-constructed locomotives at the right of the picture, workmen posing for the camera in the centre, and a row of small furnaces at the left for metal working. Across the roof of the workshop a movable gantry and crane is positioned.