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A view taken from the wharfside showing coal being winched aboard a sailing ship.

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A view looking down on to a pier piled with timber which is being loaded on to the steamer moored alongside.

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57 x 105 mm. A view of the stained glass window depicting Sir Thomas More, the Earl of Surrey and Edmund Spenser.

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A view of cattle in a field, with cleared land and hills beyond.

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350 x 274 mm. A view of horses and cattle grazing on partially cleared land, with mountains on the horizon.

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Jenolan Caves, N. S.W. [View of cliffs, with tree behind].

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Jenolan Caves, N. S.W. [View of cliffs, with tree behind].

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds: Fifty-three undated watercolours intended as bookmarks, each 200 x 45 mm in size, sold by John Sands of Sydney as indicated by stickers pasted onto the reverse. The images are of birds, with the exception of two koala bears, two kangaroos and one opossum. The vast majority are the work of three authors, signed Artah, M. Simpson and Koddi. Artah is Violet Artah Bartlett, an artist specialising in Australian ornithology who worked in Sydney during the 1920s. It has proved impossible as yet...

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A view of two strange stalacmite formations, which take the general form of a human and of a bird. The Wombeyan Caves are somewhat less spectacular than the Jenolan Caves, and are situated about 30 miles west of Mittagong.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds: Fifty-three undated watercolours intended as bookmarks, each 200 x 45 mm in size, sold by John Sands of Sydney as indicated by stickers pasted onto the reverse. The images are of birds, with the exception of two koala bears, two kangaroos and one opossum. The vast majority are the work of three authors, signed Artah, M. Simpson and Koddi. Artah is Violet Artah Bartlett, an artist specialising in Australian ornithology who worked in Sydney during the 1920s. It has proved impossible as yet...

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204 x 136 mm. An exterior view of the museum, a turretted brick building, taken from beside the Great Hall. The tower of the School of Engineering can be seen in the distance.

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211 x 153 mm. An interior view of the museum looking down from the gallery on to the display cases on the ground floor. the museum came into being by the gifts of Sir William Macleay's collection of natural history specimens in 1888. He also paid for the building, the employment of a curator, and numerous fellowships.

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140 x 190 mm. A view of the lighthouse situated at South Head, with the barrel of a cannon lying in the grass in front. A simple and solid design, which was originally produced by Francis Greenway on Governor Macquarie's orders, it was completed in 1817 and earned Greenway, who was a convict, his freedom; it was the first lighthouse to be built in Australia. This photograph is of a copy of Greenway's original building, and was opened in 1883.

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267 x 202 mm. View looking along Macquarie Street, with a row of three storey terrace houses in the foreground. The building in the background appears to be the Free Library at the junction of Bent Street and Macquarie Street. The terraced houses in the foreground are handsomely proportioned buildings with slender arched doorways and cast-iron balconies on the first floor. They would appear to date from around the mid-1840s.

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A view looking down the west side of Macquarie Street, showing the residential houses. The house partially seen on the extreme right of the picture is probably 'Burdekin House', opposite the Sydney Hospital. Built in 1841, it was regarded as 'the most handsome house in Sydney'. It was demolished in 1933.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds: Fifty-three undated watercolours intended as bookmarks, each 200 x 45 mm in size, sold by John Sands of Sydney as indicated by stickers pasted onto the reverse. The images are of birds, with the exception of two koala bears, two kangaroos and one opossum. The vast majority are the work of three authors, signed Artah, M. Simpson and Koddi. Artah is Violet Artah Bartlett, an artist specialising in Australian ornithology who worked in Sydney during the 1920s. It has proved impossible as yet...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds: Fifty-three undated watercolours intended as bookmarks, each 200 x 45 mm in size, sold by John Sands of Sydney as indicated by stickers pasted onto the reverse. The images are of birds, with the exception of two koala bears, two kangaroos and one opossum. The vast majority are the work of three authors, signed Artah, M. Simpson and Koddi. Artah is Violet Artah Bartlett, an artist specialising in Australian ornithology who worked in Sydney during the 1920s. It has proved impossible as yet...

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A view taken from the SW corner of the quay, looking NE, with trams and ferries in the foreground, and mail steamers moored beyond on the east side of the quay.

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[Bear at the bars of its cage with white nose and collar marking].

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[Bear at the bars of its cage with white nose and collar marking].

Scope and Contents From the File: The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 7455-7491; 7334-7344 and 7494-7634. Added numbers are: 7519A-7528A; spoiled: 7484-7486, 7525, 7562, 7611-7614, 7621 and 7626; not used: 7459-7460, 7463, 7526-7528, 7336, 7340, 7543-7544; missing: 7455-7456, 7458, 7462, 7464, 7471, 7473, 7476, 7480, 7489, 7334-7335, 7337-7339, 7341, 7533, 7535-7537, 7540-7541, 7547, 7550, 7560-7561, 7570, 7585, 7608, 7618, 7620, 7624, 7631. The photographs are not arranged totally in numerical order...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds: Fifty-three undated watercolours intended as bookmarks, each 200 x 45 mm in size, sold by John Sands of Sydney as indicated by stickers pasted onto the reverse. The images are of birds, with the exception of two koala bears, two kangaroos and one opossum. The vast majority are the work of three authors, signed Artah, M. Simpson and Koddi. Artah is Violet Artah Bartlett, an artist specialising in Australian ornithology who worked in Sydney during the 1920s. It has proved impossible as yet...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds: Fifty-three undated watercolours intended as bookmarks, each 200 x 45 mm in size, sold by John Sands of Sydney as indicated by stickers pasted onto the reverse. The images are of birds, with the exception of two koala bears, two kangaroos and one opossum. The vast majority are the work of three authors, signed Artah, M. Simpson and Koddi. Artah is Violet Artah Bartlett, an artist specialising in Australian ornithology who worked in Sydney during the 1920s. It has proved impossible as yet...

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A view of the beach at Manly, with swimmers in the background and men and women posing for the camera in front.

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350 x 274 mm. A view of the beach at Manly, with holiday-makers posing for the camera, and swimmers in the sea beyond.