Scope and Contents

A view looking down Bridge Street towards the Domain gates. On the right hand side of the street can be seen the ornate stone façade of the North Queensland Insurance Co. building (later the Burns Philip building), the Royal Exchange, the Lands Office, and in the distance, the Chief Secretary's Office (now the Department of Works).

Scope and Contents

A view of the falls from below, which are in fact more a large series of cascades, set among forest foliage and ferns.

Scope and Contents

153 x 207 mm. Mounted print, mount stamped 'Henry King, Sydney'. A view of a tree in the Botanic Gardens. Handwritten caption on reverse of mount reads 'Broad-leaved Tea-tree (Melacuca Leucadendra, Linn.) Native of Eastern Australia. Planted by H.R.H. the Duke of York in the Sydney Botanical Gardens, 22nd July 1881. Photo 1901'.

Scope and Contents

A view looking towards the mines, with a railway track in the foreground, and a residential district in the distance.

Scope and Contents

350 x 274 mm. A view of a cluster of mine buildings in operation, with excavated earth in the foreground.

Scope and Contents

289 x 238 mm. A view looking down on the weir, with two men in the foreground watching the river. The weir, on the Cataract River, was built as a result of a Commission's recommendation in 1867, and in order to turn the intermingled waters of the four streams into a 36 mile conduit consisting of a series of tunnels, open canals and aqueducts.

Scope and Contents

350 x 274 mm. A view looking down the fenced road towards a wooden bridge over the river, with a bicyclist on the road.

Scope and Contents

280 x 204 mm. View from a cross-roads (? the George Street junction with Hay Street) looking along the row of shops lining one side of George Street. In the right foreground is E. (or F.) Smith's Burragong Family Hotel; other identifiable commercial premises on George Street are: Louis Uhde and Co., butchers; Fairleigh, Nettheim and Co., leather and grindery merchants at no. 659; A.L. Robinson, tailor at no. 661.

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.

Scope and Contents

203 x 150 mm. A view along a fenced, unsurfaced road in lightly wooded country.

Scope and Contents

153 x 196 mm. A view of an unfenced, unsurfaced road, through woodland, with cleared trees and stumps by the side of the road.

Scope and Contents

205 x 152 mm. Mounted print, mount stamped 'Henry King, Sydney'. A view of a tree in the Botanic Gardens. Handwritten caption on reverse of mount reads 'Cabbage Palm (Linistrona Australis mart.) Native of Eastern Australia. Planted by H.R.H. the late Duke of Clarence in the Sydney Botanical Gardens, 22nd July 1881. Photo 1901'.

Scope and Contents

350 x 274 mm. View of a large cluster of palms, with some felled trees in the foreground.

Scope and Contents

275 x 220 mm. A view along the seashore, with a child sitting on a bleached tree lying on the beach.

Scope and Contents

274 x 350 mm. A view of the trees growing in a field where cows are grazing. Tall palm trees, their fronds grow only at the very top of the tree in a fan-like shape.

Scope and Contents

350 x 274 mm. A view looking down on to the wide sandy beach, with a hilly headland beyond.

Scope and Contents

Showing a light plan with folded wings being 'garaged'.

Scope and Contents

[No print]. [Missing].

Scope and Contents 190 x 140 mm. A front view of the hotel, a large brick building with wrought iron verandahs. Always a popular tourist spot in the Blue Mountains, the railway station at Katoomba was opened in 1876, giving easy access.'The design of the hotel is on the modern American style ... It has accommodation for seventy to eighty persons, contains nearly sixty rooms, consisting of a large dining-room, general ladies drawing room, and gentlemen's smoking and reading room ... Gas is laid on,...

Scope and Contents

350 x 274 mm. A view looking down on wagons loaded with wheat and drawn by large teams of horses.

Scope and Contents

220 x 275 mm. A view of a steep rockface, with a cascade of water in the lower half of the picture, and two men standing on a ledge above.

Scope and Contents

220 x 275 mm. A view of a rocky hillside, scattered with trees and shrubs, with a man sitting on a ledge above a small cascade which drops into a pool at the bottom of the picture.

Scope and Contents

350 x 274 mm. A view from the pool below of the cascades, with trees lining the river bank.

Scope and Contents

190 x 140 mm. Showing a smallish cascade flowing over rocks.

Scope and Contents

170 x 120 mm. A side view of the bridge, fairly near completion, but with parts of the superstructure unfinished.