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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2776 Collections and/or Records:

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The Royal Train, 1901-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085J/17
Scope and Contents

150 x 105 mm. With initials ‘H.W.M.’ printed in ink, right hand corner of print. Showing the train approaching, having just crossed an unidentified bridge, the front of the engine decorated with flags. Presumably at the end of the visit, since although the Royal party arrived by train, this was not publicised, as they were meant to come by sea.

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 Royal Visit and you, 1954

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 320/1/9a
Scope and Contents

A programme of the Royal Visit to Australia.

Dates: 1954
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 Royal Visit and you, 1954

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 320/1/9b
Scope and Contents

A programme of the Royal Visit to Australia.

Dates: 1954
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).
 Fonds

The Royal visit to Queensland

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085J
Scope and Contents A collection of thirty-three black and white photographs, in two sizes (150 x 105 mm and 205 x 130 mm), mounted on board. Each board is printed with 'The Royal visit to Queensland, May 1901' and stamped 'Agricultural Department, Queensland.' There are brief handwritten captions beneath each photograph, which have been recorded as found.Queen Victoria had originally intended to undertake a tour of several countries of the Empire to express Britain's gratitude for help received...
Dates: 1901-05
Conditions Governing Access: 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 Ruins of the Garden Palace], 1882

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086A/2
Scope and Contents

275 x 225 mm. A view of the wreckage from the roof of Government House and looking south towards the Garden Palace. The whole of the central portion of the building has gone, leaving merely at the left and right, the ruins of two of the major towers.

Dates: 1882
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 Sailors' Home, George Street North, 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086P/55
Scope and Contents

273 x 217 mm. General view of the Sailors' Home, situated on the west side of the Circular Quay overlooking Sydney Cove. The three storey building (? plus basement) has four sets of bastardised Venetian windows on each floor and a steeply pitched roof. Date of construction unknown. Sydney Cove and the eastern half of the Circular Quay, with moored ships and warehouses, can be seen in the background.

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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The Salmon Ponds, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/184
Scope and Contents

179 x 96 mm. A view looking towards small weirs in the ponds, with two men sitting on the ground and one man standing beside the pools, and with houses in the background. These salmon ponds, situated at Plenty, New Norfolk, are used for breeding salmon and trout.

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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The same [i.e. The Forester River, near Scottsdale] - showing wind pump, 1910-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 24/6577
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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The Scots' Church, College Street, 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086P/40
Scope and Contents

275 x 206 mm. View from the west of the attractive and unpretentious Scots' Church, erected in 1824 and now demolished. A plaque on the tower above the west door reads 'Scots' Church erected MDCCCXXIV'. Apart from its pointed windows, this stolid sandstone building with its squat tower has something of the atmosphere of a Norman church. It was designed by S.L. Harris.

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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The sea east of Emu Bay, from moving train, Tasmania, 1910-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 24/6571
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. [Sandy shore with rocky outcrops and sea beyond].

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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The Seven Cascades, Buldong Falls, Tumut District, New South Wales, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086L/39
Scope and Contents

274 x 350 mm. A view of the falls which drop 200 feet in a series of cascades through rocky woodland. The waterfall is on a tributary of the Tumut River.

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 Shoalhaven River, South Coast, 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086M/60
Scope and Contents

A view looking down on to the wide river, which is crossed by an iron bridge with eight spans. With pasture land on either side of the river.

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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The Sisters' Rocks, Katoomba, N.S.W [i.e. New South Wales], 1872 - 1895

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086C/23
Scope and Contents

280 x 225 mm. A view across towards the rocks, which lie beyond the large outcrop of rock in the foreground. The thickly wooded Jamieson Valley lies beneath. The three rocks figure in Aboriginal Australian mythology as 'Meeni', 'Wimlah' and 'Gunedoo', three sisters turned to stone for their misdeeds.

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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The Source of the Edith River in the Tablelands, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3083B/8
Scope and Contents

204 x 139 mm. A view showing a small waterfall dropping into a large pool surrounded by cliffs. The caption for this print is taken from ‘In Australian Tropics’ by Alfred Searcy (London 1907), where the same photograph is used opposite page 221. The Edith River, about 140 miles SSE of Darwin, drops from below Mt. Todd, until it becomes part of the Ferguson River.

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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The Spit, Middle Harbour, 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086M/14
Scope and Contents

A view of the spit of land, with a sandy beach, which projects out into the harbour, and which was a pleasure spot for the Sydney populace. In 1924 a wooden bridge was built out to the Spit, but at this time, pedestrians or vehicles had to punt across.

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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The S.S. Wodonga, Bowen Jetty, Queensland, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7532
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. [A bustling crowd on the jetty].

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 Summit of Mount Kosciusko, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7619
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. Three and a half miles away: on the summit is the hut of Mr Ragg, an astronomer. N.S.W. [View from the road of Mt Kosciusko across rough land, with ponies in the foreground].

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 Summit of Mount Kosciusko, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7620
Scope and Contents

[No print]. [Missing]. Three and a half miles away: on the summit is the hut of Mr Ragg, an astronomer. N.S.W. [View from the road of Mt Kosciusko across rough land, with ponies in the foreground].

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 Survey Camp at Canberra for the 'Yass Canberra Site', 1910, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7628
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. [Camp with two wooden huts and tents, with flag pole].

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 Survey Camp from the north-west, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7629
Scope and Contents

Landscape format.

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 Sydney Exchange, 1870 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308B/13
Scope and Contents

210 x 152 mm. A view of the exchange, which stands at the corner of Bridge Street and Gresham Street, taken from Macquarie Place. This sandstone building, designed in the Corinthian manner, was opened in 1857. This photograph shows the building before two more floors were added by A.F. Pritchard. For a photograph of the building with these additions see Y3086K/9.

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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The Sydney University, 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086M/4
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A view of the east front of the main building, with the Great Hall on the right. Built in the Gothic style, and designed by Edmund Blackett, building started in 1854.

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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The Tamar at Launceston: in distance S.S. Loongana (native for swift) - claims to have been the first turbine steamer south of the line, and now plys tri-weekly from Launceston to Melbourne], 1910-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 24/6606
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).
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The Thredbo River at Creel, near its junction with the Snowy River, N.S.W, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 29/7617
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. [Showing rapids and an island in the river with rocky slopes with a few trees beyond].

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 Three Sisters, Blue Mountains, 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086M/23
Scope and Contents

A view looking down on to the rocks, three outcrop which stand over the wooded valley floor. With a man and a woman sitting in the foreground at the cliff edge.

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).