Australia (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2776 Collections and/or Records:
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The Circular Quay, Sydney, 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086M/8
Scope and Contents
A view of the curving road at the south side of the quay looking west, with trams and pedestrians. Wharves and shipping (not visible) are to the right of the picture. On the right can be seen notices advertising the ferry services to various of the pleasure spots - 'Mossman Bay - Fare 2d.', 'Neutral Bay - Fare 2d.', 'Manly Beach', etc.
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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New South Wales, 1911
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The City Hotel, Sandhurst, 1875
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087C/21
Scope and Contents
178 x 123 mm. An exterior view of the hotel, a narrow stone building with iron-work verandahs on the first floor. A horse carriage stands in front of the hotel which was built in 1872, at the height of the Bendigo building boom, and is situated at Charing Cross, just beyond Pall Mall.
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Views of Bendigo
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The coach on road from Derby to Scottsdale stopping at the 'Camp Inn', Tasmania, 1910-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 24/6595
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. [Showing a coach and four with two grooms in attendance and four hatted ladies seated on outside seats of the coach].
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).
Sub-Fonds
The colony of Victoria: some of its industries, 1896
Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/37
Scope and Contents
A paper read to the Royal Colonial Institute, 17 November 1896.
Dates:
1896
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Australasia miscellanea
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The Court House, Yass, N.S.W [i.e. New South Wales], 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086W/3
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Collection of professional photographs, each 90 x 70 mm, published for the Yass Newsagency by the Valentine Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., Sydney and Melbourne. Yass is 43 miles north of Canberra. Its population in 1947 was 3254.
Dates:
1949
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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‘The crowd outside Houlder Brothers’ Office in Sydney, the morning after a request for recruits to accompany horses for S. Africa’, 1899 - 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M/45
Scope and Contents
145 x 90 mm. The office building is in the background; a military band is marching down the street.
Dates:
1899 - 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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The Custom House, 1901-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085J/5
Scope and Contents
105 x 150 mm. A view of the Custom House decorated with flags, palm leaves and a sign reading ‘Welcome to our Royal Duke and Duchess’.
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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The Devil’s Hole, Black Spurr, 1888 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/56
Scope and Contents
210 x 159 mm. A view among dense woodland, presumably showing the entrance to a cave or gorge, although this is impossible to discern.
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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The dinner hour, 1909-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 24/6519
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. [Showing scouts sitting under tent for shade].
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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The Director, Botanic Gardens, Sydney, in this office, 1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086S/1
Scope and Contents
202 x 154 mm. A view of the director, a bearded man, sitting at his desk in his office. The office walls are lined with bookshelves and maps. On the reverse of the print is written '3/01'. If these figures refer to the date of the photograph, the director pictured here would be Joseph Henry Maiden (1859-1925). Maiden was director of the Gardens from 1896-1924, and was the world authority on the Australian species of the Eucalyptus, as well as producing a prodigious variety of other...
Dates:
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).
File
The discovery of Australia, 1967
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 338/9
Scope and Contents
An education pack from the Hill of Content Archive Series.
Dates:
1967
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Education packs
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The Dyke, Newcastle, 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086K/22
Scope and Contents
A view of the wharves, with moored shipping and railway trucks loaded with coal running up to the ships' sides. The dyke is situated in the middle of Newcastle harbour at Carrington, and contains the main coal exporting wharves.
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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New South Wales, 1908
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The Dyke, Newcastle, N.S.W [i.e New Sout Wales], 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086L/31
Scope and Contents
350 x 274 mm. A view looking along the railway line, crowded with freight trucks full of coal, towards the wharves, which are lined with steam and sailing vessels waiting to be loaded. The Dyke is situated in the centre of Newcastle harbour, at Carrington, and contains the main coal exporting wharves.
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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'The Earl of Limerick's House', 1885
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308698A/4
Scope and Contents
Facing p.18, referred to on p.15. William Pery, 5th Earl of Limerick (1840-1896) was born in Norfolk Island on 17 June 1840, where his father, later the 4th Earl, was a magistrate.
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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The Eureka Stockade, Ballarat, 1900 - 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/XII/23
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Nothing is known of the provenance of this collection of lantern slides and glass plates. The images likely were created to illustrate lectures given at the RCS.
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).
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The first bird brought to the farm by Mr Barraclough, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7595
Scope and Contents
'The Duchess', named by Queen Mary.
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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The Fisher Library (from the North West) - Showing the Book Stack, 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086N/4
Scope and Contents
355 x 280 mm. A view looking up at the rear of the building, with the book-stack to the left. 'The book stack, ... is seven stories in height ... The interior fittings of the stack, lift and staircase are wholly of steel, its floors of thick translucent plate glass, and when the heavy fireproof door is closed the Library is considered to be absolutely fireproof.' (Dallen, 1914, page not recorded).
Dates:
1915
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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The Fisher Library (from the South West), 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086N/3
Scope and Contents
355 x 280 mm. A view showing the richly carved stone decorations on the exterior. The building, constructed in a rather ecclesiastical style, was designed by Colonel Vernon and opened in 1910.
Dates:
1915
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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The Fisher Library - Interior of the Reading Room (looking East), 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086N/5
Scope and Contents
355 x 280 mm. A view looking along the library, showing readers' desks, and the high vaulted wooden arches of the roof, which are supported on elaborate stone corbels.
Dates:
1915
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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The Fisher Library - Interior of the Reading Room (looking West), 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086N/6
Scope and Contents
35 x 280 mm. A view looking along the library, showings readers' desks, and the high vaulted wooden arches of the roof, which are supported on elaborate stone corbels.
Dates:
1915
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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The Flat Flemington Race Course, 1888 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/23
Scope and Contents
201 x 150 mm. A view along the track, with stands in the distance.
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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The forest land from the train, 1910-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 24/6540
Scope and Contents
[No print]. Missing.
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).
Item
The Forester River, near Scottsdale, 1910-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 24/6576
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. [Showing stream with dead trees and stumps and stumps in the background].
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).
Sub-Fonds
The founding of Australia, 1937
Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/43
Scope and Contents
A printed copy by the Medici Society Ltd of London of 'The founding of Australia at Sydney Cove by Captain Arthur Phillip R.N., First Governor and Captain-General of New South Wales, on Saturday, the 26th January 1788, after landing from H.M. Brig Supply. The Governor about to propose the health of His Majesty King George III just after the Union Jack has been hoisted and saluted by the Guard of Marines', 583 x 456 mm, 1937. The picture is accompanied by a printed outline drawing of the...
Dates:
1937
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
/
Australasia miscellanea
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The Fountain and Terra Cottas, Acclimatisation Society’s Grounds, Bowen Park, 1875
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085C/11
Scope and Contents
270 x 205 mm. A view looking across the lawn to the bungalow beyond the fountain.
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).