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[Brass band on edge of pavement with large building behind].

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345 x 262 mm. A view looking along the line at Gerogery towards the platforms where workers are standing. To the left of the lines stands sacks of wheat ready for freighting. Gerogery, on the Southern Main Line branch 12 miles from Culcairn, was largely a goods station, catering predominently in the shipping of wheat, and there is none of the elaboration in the building that can be seen in the larger passenger stations like Albury. The line to Gerogery was opened in September 1880.

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200 x 161 mm. A view looking north from the Glebe towards the wooden bridge which connects Glebe Island to Pyrmont, with some small factories by the water’s edge, and with grazing horses and cattle in the foreground. The bridge was built in 1857 to shorten road communications between Balmain and Pyrmont and was replaced in 1901. (Glebe Island is not in fact an island nor even part of the Glebe, but is a peninsula on the other side of Rozelle Bay from Glebe.)

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A view from a different angle of the same tin works, with men sluicing the mud in the foreground. New South Wales, formerly a large tin producer, has since the 1950s closed most of her remaining mines.

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[No print]. Painting only.

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350 x 250 mm. No print.

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150 x 105 mm. A view of growing vine plants. A note is appended here stating 'In 1886 the Black Hermitage Vines, aged 13 to 33 years, produced an average of 810 gallons per acre'.

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199 x 151 mm. A view looking over snow-capped mountains and down into a rocky gorge. With a figure on horseback on the snowfield in the foreground. Negative number 2497.

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Possibly by Violet Artah Bartlett, fl 1919-1930, although the signature is different from the other examples of her work in the collection.

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183 x 149 mm. A view looking out over the sheer cliff face at Govett’s Leap down into the wooded valley of the Grose below.

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A view looking down on farm buildings, with an orchard of fig-trees in the foreground, and fields cultivated with various crops beyond.

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204 x 154 mm. A view looking across Farm Cove from the N.E. end of the Botanic Gardens, towards the crenellated turrets and towers of Government House, a mock gothic castle first occupied by Governor Gipps in 1845.

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190 x 140 mm. A view across Farm Cove towards Government House, with a ship at anchor in the cove.

'In 1813 a road three miles long ... was built through the farm to the eastern portion of the cove, where on 13th June 1816, an inscription was etched on a huge sandstone rock known as Mrs. Macquarie's Chair. Here the Governor's wife could rest after her long walk from Government House in Bridge Street ...' (Clune 1968, page not recorded).

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153 x 204 mm. A view looking through trees and over Farm Cover towards Government House.

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202 x 155 mm. A view showing the lawn and front entrance to Government House, with a soldier on duty on the path in front of the building.

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206 x 158 mm. A view of the front of the house, with a soldier on sentry duty. Government House stands in the Domain, north of the Botanical Gardens and looking over Farm Cove.

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190 x 140 mm. A view across Farm Cove to Government House, a turretted and crenellated building flying the Union Jack, and first occupied in 1845. To the right can be seen Fort Macquarie, manned as a garrison post and artillery store until 1902, when it was demolished. A tram depot was erected in its place and used until 1959, when the area became the site of the Sydney Opera House.

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190 x 140 mm. A view of Government House from across Farm Cove, with a ship at anchor in the cove. Part of Fort Macquarie is visible.

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190 x 140 mm. A view of the front of the house with soldiers on guard before the front door. A crenellated and turretted building, it was first occupied in 1845 by Governor Gipps.

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285 x 230 mm. A view of the front of the building, partly obscured by trees. A mock Tudor gothic building with crenellations and turrets, it was first occupied in 1845 by Governor Gipps. The building is situated on the tongue of land between Sydney Cove and Farm Cove and North of the Botanic Gardens.

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161 x 14 mm. A view looking across Farm Cove towards Government House, with sailing boats in the foreground.

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A view of the front of Government House, first occupied by Governor Gipps in 1845, and built with mock battlements and turrets.

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281 x 210 mm. View of the Mint from Macquarie Street. This two storeyed verandahed building with hipped roof was originally the southern wing of the Rum Hospital, built 1811-16. It became the Government Mint in 1853 and has in recent years been turned into a Museum of State history.

Scope and Contents An album containing albumen prints, 270 x 220 mm. The volume has a printed title page: 'Photographs of Rolling Stock used on the Government Railways of New South Wales, each description of vehicle being illustrated'. There are no captions. No detailed identification of this volume has been attempted. The following is a summary: 1-35 locomotives; 36-74 passenger coaches; 75 guard's van; 76-80 luggage vans; 82 horse boxes; 83 prison van; 84-94 miscellaneous freight wagons: 88 meat van, 92...

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Painting only. [No print].